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Anonymous
6/28/2025, 3:32:05 PM No.16709456
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Are there any resources where I can see all the newer science that overrides previous beliefs and knowledge in textbooks?
https://scitechdaily.com/rewriting-textbooks-new-findings-challenge-decades-of-mitochondrial-biology/
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Anonymous
6/28/2025, 6:47:12 PM No.16709563
>>16709456 (OP)
Shit like that doesn't happen often enough to warrant its own newsletter. It would end up being another shitty "GROUNDBREAKING discovery REWRITES the foundations of everything we know about smegma!!!" style scinence tabloid.

Even the article you posted is pretty much just saying "sodium plays a bigger role than previously understood in a mechanism that's already extensively covered in textbooks and textbooks should put more emphasis on the role it plays."
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Anonymous
6/28/2025, 6:57:23 PM No.16709573
>>16709456 (OP)
okay so is it still the powerhouse of the cell
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 7:03:42 PM No.16709584
This isn't exactly what you're asking for, but Retraction Watch occasionally highlights some high-profile studies that ended up getting retracted. A lot of shit that ends up doing the rounds in science media and taken as absolute fact by people who read it ends up getting retracted with vlno fanfare.

https://retractionwatch.com/
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 10:02:47 PM No.16709701
>>16709456 (OP)
what's worse is when these findings are 30 years old yet the books are still not being rewritten
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 11:34:44 PM No.16709739
>>16709563
>lies at every conceivable level
>even down to introductory biology classes
>tabloid
I see, the incompetency crisis has even reached my favorite cope board.
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 12:04:52 AM No.16709750
>>16709739
Where's the lie? The model students are taught about ATP production is usually about electron transport chains. Usually with emphasis on potassium. We discovered that sodium plays a bigger role than once thought (everyone already knew sodium did play a role), and some people are considering updating textbooks to reflect this.

Textbooks seldom include cutting edge research because the authors know there's a greater risk of recent research being retracted than older research.

The bigger problem is people interpreting clickbait headlines at face value when a minor adjustment to the standard model is presented as a "BOMBSHELL DISCOVERY THAT UPENDS ALL OF..." whatever the fuck.