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ParadiseValleyFiend t1_je2926y wrote

"Hey Science! How's the whole curing cancer or solving climate change stuff going? I'm sure you have tons of new fascinating discoveries that will improve our lives!"

Science: "the tiny face bugs do indeed have buttholes."

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AudibleNod OP t1_je2c9xc wrote

Science is pretty good at taking some random information and synthesizing it into something useful or exploring something else new.

Further in the same article they look at the demodex genome and speculate it's at an evolutionary dead-end. Who knows, maybe we can use that against dangerous bacteria or guinea worms.

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