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From what I can see there is a flagging epidemic on HN. I have seen valid statistics about flu (from the CDC or equivalent, I am not a US citizen) being flagged
by jerome-jh 7y ago
From what I can see there is a flagging epidemic on HN. I have seen valid statistics about flu (from the CDC or equivalent, I am not a US citizen) being flagged, on the ground of being conspiracy inspired. But knowing the actual numbers is not conspiracy. I too had my "ahah" moment when learning about the flu statistics.
Some subjects simply cannot be discussed: there is a Paul Graham's blog post about it. That is a bit sad that the moment, however urgent, dictates what can talked on a pretty harmless forum.
- throwanem 7y agoThere is a misinformation epidemic on HN and lots of other places, and part of that has been the use of flu stats to tendentiously argue everything from "the current measures are an overreaction" to "REX-84 FEMA black sites New World Order". It's possible you are mistaking flags on such tendentious claims for flags on raw data presented without interpretation - the latter of which, I'll admit, I haven't really seen anywhere lately.