This isn't really news to anyone in biology, most of the discoveries listed here are a decade or more old. Non-coding RNA and epigenetics have been obvious black boxes for a while, hence all these actual scientists searching for and slowly finding answers to some of these unknowns over the last couple of decades.
But pop-sci publications and public-facing "experts" have conspicuously glossed over these potential unknowns, because it diminishes a priest's influence to simply say "I don't know".
yeah part of it is scientists being human and understandably resistant to admitting their life work has been down some dead-end field (like string theory in physics). part of it is that science journalists are all mouth-breathing morons who couldn't get a real job.
This isn't really news to anyone in biology, most of the discoveries listed here are a decade or more old. Non-coding RNA and epigenetics have been obvious black boxes for a while, hence all these actual scientists searching for and slowly finding answers to some of these unknowns over the last couple of decades.
But pop-sci publications and public-facing "experts" have conspicuously glossed over these potential unknowns, because it diminishes a priest's influence to simply say "I don't know".
yeah part of it is scientists being human and understandably resistant to admitting their life work has been down some dead-end field (like string theory in physics). part of it is that science journalists are all mouth-breathing morons who couldn't get a real job.