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Sorry, is this verifiable elsewhere? I'm automatically skeptical of anybody with a free WP theme with no About section who is pushing a stock, and right now thi

Sorry, is this verifiable elsewhere? I'm automatically skeptical of anybody with a free WP theme with no About section who is pushing a stock, and right now this is #1 on Hacker News.

Zeratoss 8y ago
I mean the paper is really the interesting part http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/07/16/1802343115 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/07/16/1802343115
shawnz 8y ago
And furthermore, copy text that was clearly not even edited
ereyes01 8y ago
Does everyone with useful information need to be a skilled web designer to be credible?
- elicash 8y ago
  Obviously not. But it's like the old twitter egg profile accounts. It was so easy to create a fake egg account that I'm not going to take my investment advice from them, especially if they don't have information about who they are readily available. It's deserving of an extra level of skepticism is all I'm saying. If you don't agree with that very basic idea, then I don't know what to tell you.
  - pbhjpbhj 8y ago
    There's an interesting dovetail with comments on the post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18389080 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18389080 about anonymity and mathematical proofs.
tyingq 8y ago
Some backstory on the author: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Zayner https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Zayner And evidence of a tie to the site this is posted on: https://mobile.twitter.com/4LOVofScience/status/1059567392337014784 https://mobile.twitter.com/4LOVofScience/status/105956739233... Edit: But, yeah, site needs an "about us" page.
- skosch 8y ago
  Thanks, I had no idea it was that guy!
- codeulike 8y ago
  Josiah knows a bit about CRISPR, having injected it into himself - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/24/josiah-zayner-diy-gene-editing-therapy-crispr-interview https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/24/josiah-zayne... But yeah this antisense site seems to be linked to him (antisense links to the-odin which is Josiah's site selling bio-hacking kits) So: a) He might know what he's talking about but b) he's using his own platform to give this opinion Make of that what you will.
amelius 8y ago
The article uses layman's language with no reference to an authority, so indeed, we should be skeptical.

Sorry, is this verifiable elsewhere? I'm automatically skeptical of anybody with a free WP theme with no About section who is pushing a stock, and right now this is #1 on Hacker News.

Zeratoss 8y ago

I mean the paper is really the interesting part http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/07/16/1802343115 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/07/16/1802343115

shawnz 8y ago

And furthermore, copy text that was clearly not even edited

ereyes01 8y ago

Does everyone with useful information need to be a skilled web designer to be credible?

elicash 8y ago
Obviously not. But it's like the old twitter egg profile accounts. It was so easy to create a fake egg account that I'm not going to take my investment advice from them, especially if they don't have information about who they are readily available. It's deserving of an extra level of skepticism is all I'm saying. If you don't agree with that very basic idea, then I don't know what to tell you.
- pbhjpbhj 8y ago
  There's an interesting dovetail with comments on the post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18389080 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18389080 about anonymity and mathematical proofs.

tyingq 8y ago

Some backstory on the author: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Zayner https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Zayner And evidence of a tie to the site this is posted on: https://mobile.twitter.com/4LOVofScience/status/1059567392337014784 https://mobile.twitter.com/4LOVofScience/status/105956739233... Edit: But, yeah, site needs an "about us" page.

skosch 8y ago
Thanks, I had no idea it was that guy!
codeulike 8y ago
Josiah knows a bit about CRISPR, having injected it into himself - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/24/josiah-zayner-diy-gene-editing-therapy-crispr-interview https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/24/josiah-zayne... But yeah this antisense site seems to be linked to him (antisense links to the-odin which is Josiah's site selling bio-hacking kits) So: a) He might know what he's talking about but b) he's using his own platform to give this opinion Make of that what you will.

amelius 8y ago

The article uses layman's language with no reference to an authority, so indeed, we should be skeptical.