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Comment author: Vaniver 07 November 2013 05:39:20PM 1 point [-]

The "new ligament discovered" angle gets less impressive (to me, at least) when I read this part:

Their starting point: an 1879 article by a French surgeon that postulated the existence of an additional ligament located on the anterior of the human knee.

Comment author: gwern 07 November 2013 08:06:06PM 6 points [-]

I'm more impressed, actually, in terms of the unevenness of progress - it took ~134 years to confirm his postulate? It's not like corpses were unavailable for dissection in 1879.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 09 November 2013 03:25:47PM 1 point [-]

It inspires more awe at our collective failures, but suggests that we should not be so impressed with the new people as if they had a method that would make us sure that we hadn't missed even more ligaments.

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