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I responded in kind to the OP title, claiming that to cut funding to an incredibly dangerous practice is a ‘horrible precedent’. Quote from none other than a bu

by pacala 6y ago

I responded in kind to the OP title, claiming that to cut funding to an incredibly dangerous practice is a ‘horrible precedent’. Quote from none other than a business partner of the principal in question. For balance, consider crafting a less inflammatory title.

dang 6y ago
Responding to inflammation with firestarter is exactly the wrong thing to do. You should respond with flame retardant instead, or not at all. Do the site guidelines not make that clear? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Usually quotation marks in a title act as insulation. I can see how that wasn't the case here, but it's still your responsibility to be a good citizen of the community, rather than breaking the rules and pointing a finger. If you were responding to the title, you shouldn't have hijacked the top comment by replying to it. I've detached it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23052700 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23052700 now.
- pacala 6y ago
  I didn't 'hijack' anything. You still didn't fix the inflammatory title, either. Excuse us for calling out the activity of the science 'Gods' in China doing extremely questionable activity, aka 'playing with fire'. The reasons of why this is extremely questionable being unfolded in the thread you censored, in a polite manner, by the community at large. This is a pretty big scandal. Turns out the Chinese researchers did engage in creating human transmissible coronaviruses. Read this paper from https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985 https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985. I don't know where SARS-Cov-2 came from, and I don't think there is any malicious intent involved. But, in light of the COVID19 pandemic, it's extremely disconcerting to learn people engage in this kind of activity and that US sponsors it. A classic: latch on a couple of conversation opening words that you stretch as 'inflammatory', ignore that your own site uses inflammatory editorial content to begin with, ignore the main point and the polite debate around it, and bring in the ban hammer. Have a great day. I hope your debate censoring attempts have short legs.
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by pacala 6y ago

dang 6y ago

Responding to inflammation with firestarter is exactly the wrong thing to do. You should respond with flame retardant instead, or not at all. Do the site guidelines not make that clear? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Usually quotation marks in a title act as insulation. I can see how that wasn't the case here, but it's still your responsibility to be a good citizen of the community, rather than breaking the rules and pointing a finger. If you were responding to the title, you shouldn't have hijacked the top comment by replying to it. I've detached it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23052700 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23052700 now.

pacala 6y ago
I didn't 'hijack' anything. You still didn't fix the inflammatory title, either. Excuse us for calling out the activity of the science 'Gods' in China doing extremely questionable activity, aka 'playing with fire'. The reasons of why this is extremely questionable being unfolded in the thread you censored, in a polite manner, by the community at large. This is a pretty big scandal. Turns out the Chinese researchers did engage in creating human transmissible coronaviruses. Read this paper from https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985 https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985. I don't know where SARS-Cov-2 came from, and I don't think there is any malicious intent involved. But, in light of the COVID19 pandemic, it's extremely disconcerting to learn people engage in this kind of activity and that US sponsors it. A classic: latch on a couple of conversation opening words that you stretch as 'inflammatory', ignore that your own site uses inflammatory editorial content to begin with, ignore the main point and the polite debate around it, and bring in the ban hammer. Have a great day. I hope your debate censoring attempts have short legs.
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