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echelonlast Thursday at 2:54 AM0 repliesview on HN

> disagree with your assessment that the top voted comment doesn’t support it.

Did you read the paper or skim its abstract, figures, and conclusion? I'm not so sure that commenter did, or they may have cited this,

> Because we report smaller cardiomyocytes in cultured cells and in mice treated with semaglutide, it is tempting to speculate that semaglutide may induce cardiac atrophy. However, we do not observe any changes in recognized markers of atrophy such as Murf1 and Atrogin-1. Thus, we cannot be certain that semaglutide induces atrophy per se or if it does, it may occur via molecular pathways that have not been identified herein.

> Building the skill to rapidly come to a preliminarily judgement of a headline is crucial.

You can't judge this paper based on the popsci headline.

> most so-called “science” outside of the hard sciences and mathematics is complete garbage and driven by funding needs

Based on my reading of the figures and conclusion, I don't think you should call this paper garbage.