Not so new
Mea culpa: that knee ligament “discovery” I linked to yesterday? Not so much discovered as “looked at more careful like.” Studied, classified. Perfectly worthwhile research, but over-hyped by the media reporting about it. It was definitely hyperbole to describe it as a discovery. It’s been known of for at least a century, and a paper last year reported finding it in every knee they looked at. I didn’t look more carefully at the story because it was just a minor interesting thing (and anatomy really is never done), but it’s amazing what even a tiny little bit of hype will do.