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Your argument is valid, but I would like to point out that without context it reads as if the article and the Congolese doctor in question do not acknowledge th
by vanderZwan 7y ago
Your argument is valid, but I would like to point out that without context it reads as if the article and the Congolese doctor in question do not acknowledge this. However, they do:
> The discovery, says Muyembe, was thanks to a "consortium of research." But Google "Who discovered Ebola?" and you get a bunch of names — all of them white Western males. Dr. Jean Jacques Muyembe has been written out of history. "Yes, but it is ..." he pauses. He takes a breath and laughs, looking for the right way to respond. "Yes. It is not correct," he says. "It is not correct."
... and since the internet is full of people who love to comment on articles without actually reading them I think that is worth explicitly mentioning here.
(to be clear: not a slight against your comment)
- nkozyra 7y agoI read the article, I thought it was a point worth addressing in more depth and HN has a rule specifically against this type of comment.
- vanderZwan 7y agoI didn't mean to imply that you did not read the article - it was clear to me that you did. To clarify: your point is valid and nuanced. I have just noticed both here and elsewhere that it is very common for people to read the comments first and react there without reading the article. So I was picturing the scenario where one would open this discussion, see your top comment, and go off on speculative discussions that are already addressed by the article in question.