A Synthetic Molecule Helps Reduce Visceral Fat and Improve Sleep
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A new synthetic molecule has been found to reduce visceral fat and improve sleep, with Brazilian scientists making significant breakthroughs, but the discussion is also marred by complaints about the website's user experience.
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Never been to this site before, annoyed.
Intrusive dialog freezes scrolling, can’t be dismissed, annoying have to get my back button by hitting url bar
Such a user hostile experience, what a junk website
What can I say? Freedom isn’t free.
[1] usually that means the phys.org title is “Scientists came to an important conclusion” but the original article’s title is “We measured something”
[2] AP wire stories also get syndicated on local news sites that “look like puke” but might support RSS, PR sites from national labs and universities may or may not “look like puke” but they never support RSS (wouldn’t even bother asking the folks who do PR at my Uni they are as likely to answer my email from my work email as the profs who write articles about how “food at the food bank is as good as any other food” when I ask them “why do these canned peaches from the food bank have a prop 65 warning?”