It's an interesting phenomena. On a regular basis stories about the various problems of scientific quality make it to HN, e.g. recently this one [1]. On the ot

It's an interesting phenomena. On a regular basis stories about the various problems of scientific quality make it to HN, e.g. recently this one [1]. On the other hand every now and then a study that is almost certainly completely bogus and of such low quality that it basically says nothing at all also is very popular. Add to that the regular comments of the form "maybe this study isn't that good, but my personal anecdotes show ..." [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12713249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12713249