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If his methodology is not on point, his hypothesis should be waaaay off point, and very easy to debunk. If that is the case, why are you attacking his lack of

If his methodology is not on point, his hypothesis should be waaaay off point, and very easy to debunk. If that is the case, why are you attacking his lack of credentials and politics instead of his hypothesis? edit: here is an actual paper saying the same thing the medium post is https://chemrxiv.org/ndownloader/files/22129965 https://chemrxiv.org/ndownloader/files/22129965

TonRoly 7y ago
Thank you for your argument... Seems we are losing our freedom of speech and expression...
- Darwin1999 7y ago
  If the President had initially said "this drug sucks" the people currently objecting to this piece would be celebrating it. The politicization of a life-saving drug by those that hate the president is quite stupid.
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lern_too_spel 7y ago
Why not get your information from someone who cites their sources correctly instead of a crank who doesn't and mixes conspiracy theories in for good measure?
- jstewartmobile 7y ago
  linked an academic paper... 33 citations... every actual MD I've shared it with has responded with something along the lines of "very interesting" or "compelling" or "explains what some of the nurses are seeing" if a crank takes the theory of relativity to heart, does that invalidate it? strong pedants aren't necessarily strong thinkers
  - brentonator 7y ago
    This is more hearsay to lend support to a crank conspiracy theorist. Yes, we can not have a discussion spawned from a crank conspiracy theorist about general relativity even if his ideas are sound.
  - lern_too_spel 7y ago
    > if a crank takes the theory of relativity to heart, does that invalidate it? Absolutely not. Reread my comment. There are experts who describe the theory of relativity and link to papers supporting it. It is far better to link to articles from those experts than to articles from cranks who happen to get relativity correct but intersperse their articles with conspiracy theories. A Flat Earther might write an article about geometry where the geometry is valid and then mix in unsubstantiated claims about the shape of the Earth. Would you say that is a good article about geometry? No. You would link to an article about geometry that sticks to just the facts.
    - jstewartmobile 7y ago
      "Why not get YOUR information from..." I got my information from the academic article (https://chemrxiv.org/ndownloader/files/22129965 https://chemrxiv.org/ndownloader/files/22129965). Then I saw this submission on HN that I felt was an OK summary of it. Then I saw your ilk flag it. An interesting hypothesis is an interesting hypothesis--even when it does not come from our pill-pushing, astroturfing, tell-us-more-about-harry-and-meghan-while-the-bombs-are-falling mainstream media.
      - lern_too_spel 7y ago
        Nobody here is advocating upvoting articles about Harry and Meghan. Your error in reasoning is almost as bad as saying we shouldn't upvote Medium articles at all because a lot of articles on Medium are about frivolous hobbies. You are advocating upvoting articles from blithering conspiracy theorists just because part of the article has something that is based in science. You should have just submitted the actual science article instead.

TonRoly 7y ago

Thank you for your argument... Seems we are losing our freedom of speech and expression...

Darwin1999 7y ago
If the President had initially said "this drug sucks" the people currently objecting to this piece would be celebrating it. The politicization of a life-saving drug by those that hate the president is quite stupid.
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lern_too_spel 7y ago

Why not get your information from someone who cites their sources correctly instead of a crank who doesn't and mixes conspiracy theories in for good measure?

jstewartmobile 7y ago
linked an academic paper... 33 citations... every actual MD I've shared it with has responded with something along the lines of "very interesting" or "compelling" or "explains what some of the nurses are seeing" if a crank takes the theory of relativity to heart, does that invalidate it? strong pedants aren't necessarily strong thinkers
- brentonator 7y ago
  This is more hearsay to lend support to a crank conspiracy theorist. Yes, we can not have a discussion spawned from a crank conspiracy theorist about general relativity even if his ideas are sound.
- lern_too_spel 7y ago
  > if a crank takes the theory of relativity to heart, does that invalidate it? Absolutely not. Reread my comment. There are experts who describe the theory of relativity and link to papers supporting it. It is far better to link to articles from those experts than to articles from cranks who happen to get relativity correct but intersperse their articles with conspiracy theories. A Flat Earther might write an article about geometry where the geometry is valid and then mix in unsubstantiated claims about the shape of the Earth. Would you say that is a good article about geometry? No. You would link to an article about geometry that sticks to just the facts.
  - jstewartmobile 7y ago
    "Why not get YOUR information from..." I got my information from the academic article (https://chemrxiv.org/ndownloader/files/22129965 https://chemrxiv.org/ndownloader/files/22129965). Then I saw this submission on HN that I felt was an OK summary of it. Then I saw your ilk flag it. An interesting hypothesis is an interesting hypothesis--even when it does not come from our pill-pushing, astroturfing, tell-us-more-about-harry-and-meghan-while-the-bombs-are-falling mainstream media.
    - lern_too_spel 7y ago
      Nobody here is advocating upvoting articles about Harry and Meghan. Your error in reasoning is almost as bad as saying we shouldn't upvote Medium articles at all because a lot of articles on Medium are about frivolous hobbies. You are advocating upvoting articles from blithering conspiracy theorists just because part of the article has something that is based in science. You should have just submitted the actual science article instead.