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Comment by Scoundreller

3 years ago

Click bait headline. Should editorialize to include:

> nicotinamide riboside (NR), a form of vitamin B3

Isn't that a popular vitamin supplement? Why is it clickbait?

  • Readers are baited into clicking to find out the subject of the article (which supplement).

    Is this a new finding or is it the same "news" that's been regurgitated through hundreds of news outlets already over the last week? The only way to find out from the headline alone would be to give this outlet some ad impressions.

    • Yes, especially since other articles link it to breast cancer. So this is one of those links you might click only to find out you already knew about it because of those articles.