“”The discovery of this novel compound challenges long-held scientific beliefs...”
No, it doesn’t.
I looked in the article at BI for which long-held beliefs it challenges, and really couldn't find any. I found this in the NYT story:
Dr. David A. Relman, a professor of medicine at Stanford, said by email, “It illustrates the amazing wealth and diversity of as-yet-unrecognized, potent, biologically active compounds made by the microbial world — some of which may have real clinical value.” He added, “We’ve been blind to the vast majority of them because of the biased and insensitive methods we use to discover drugs.”Challenging long-held scientific beliefs might be the same thing as challenging long-held scientific dogma, borne out of habit, convenience, or pragmatism.The methods are flawed, he said, because they miss microbes that will not grow in the lab, and subject others to artificial conditions that may alter the array of potential drugs they produce.