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Baffled.

There’s that word again. Journalists are absolutely in love with that word when it comes to science. So popular it’s got its own meme page [1].

[1] http://www.scientistsbaffled.com/



Ok, we've debaffled the title above. Let's stick to the topic now please!


As I’ve said before on HN (on the topic of “fuzzy green ‘glacier mice’” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23280378):

> Being baffled is pretty much a scientist’s job. (What’s that old quote about “the most important phrase in science is ‘hmm, that’s funny...’”?)




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