Are you OK, Science magazine?
โThe therapy, an injectable monoclonal antibody callnative to antimalarials used in areas where malaria is endemic; those drugs have to be taed L9LS, offers a possible alterken for several days each month to be protective.โ
@gregeganSF curious, they need to rotate suffixes: (callnative, taed, alterken) -> (called, taken, alternative).
@gregeganSF I got it, it's (callnative, taed L9LS, alterken) -> (called L9LS, taken, alternative)
@mjambon There seems to have been additional scrambling, beyond the suffix rotation you described.
I think the correct reconstruction is probably:
โThe therapy, an injectable monoclonal antibody called L9LS, offers a possible alternative to antimalarials used in areas where malaria is endemic; those drugs have to be taken for several days each month to be protective.โ
So the cause was probably a cut and paste in the wrong place. Kind of like mishaps that occur during DNA repair sometimes ...
@gregeganSF ... or it's a secret message to be decoded by the chosen ones.
@mjambon @gregeganSF Ohhh now it makes sense.
"The therapy, an injectable monoclonal antibody call|native to antimalarials used in areas where malaria is endemic; those drugs have to be ta(ed L9LS, offers a possible alter)ken for several days each month to be protective."
It's an inadvertent drag-and-drop in the word processor. The parenthesised part got moved from its original place at | to where it shouldn't be.
@narain @gregeganSF good job. I was really hoping for a rare variety of bug or a hidden message, though.
Dear word processor authors: I have never wanted to drag highlighted text. No one has ever wanted to drag highlighted text.
@mjambon @gregeganSF I saw that but I think it's entire chunks on the sentnce. "taken for several days each month to be protective."
@gregeganSF still doesn't make much sense, though.