In his editorial, Kirschner bemoaned the “tendency to equate significance to any form of medical relevance,” noting that it caused research into non-mammalian systems to be treated “as intrinsically less valuable than studies on human cells.” As a result, simple but informative model systems can be overlooked, and an important link between basic science and human medicine can be lost.
柯什纳的社论叹息“将重要性与任何形式的医学相关性等同的倾向”，指出这导致非哺乳类系统的研究被视为“天生低人类细胞研究一等”。结果，简单但信息量巨大的模式系统可能被忽视，基础研究和人类医学的重要联系也有可能被遗漏。