1. What the papers say:
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We wrote about this one here, but the basics are: the new research technique is interesting but doesn't necessarily say anything about 'hardwiring', despite the researchers saying that in a quote in the press release, and the map-reading stereotype might not even be true.
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Plenty of newly discovered alien worlds get called Earth-like when really they are anything but. KOI 314c is actually somewhere between a rocky planet (like Earth) and a gas giant (like Jupiter), and blurs the previously thought clear line between the two. Addmitedly that's not as catchy as "Earth-like", though.
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The participants in the study reported here didn't do any psychological tests after the brain scans so its not clear whether their brain was "boosted" or not. Basically there's much more nuance in scientific studies than can be conveyed in a headline.
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The paper in which Stephen Hawking makes his claim about black holes was uploaded to physics pre-print repository arxiv.org, a place for researchers to put papers before they undergo review by other scientists. While peer review isn't perfect, even Stephen Hawking's work needs to go through it.
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This study was done in mice, not humans, so to promise a potential new treatment is to oversell it quite a bit. It may well lead to a new drug for humans with PTSD, but that's likely to be a long time away.
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Saying "according to research" is almost meaningless. If you're going to say where the finding came from, why not go all the way?
7. What we said:
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This study was interesting, but the sample size was pretty small. And the study can only claim to have "debunked" a specific type of sixth sense, namely being able to tell whether something about a person had changed (as we said in the story).