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What is the point of this post? Do you somehow feel better after posting this?

• gruseom 16y ago
  Although it should have been worded more neutrally, I appreciate the information. Not following the issue closely, after seeing the original post on HN I had filed it in the "no worries, fears exaggerated" box. It seems that was premature.
  • YooLi 16y ago
    This isn't a "here is the latest news post" post. It includes no new pertinent information. There are several posts, on the front page, that give the latest news.
    • gruseom 16y ago
      But it does contain pertinent and new (to me) information: first, that the original "not worried" post was not written by any kind of nuclear authority (I'm sure I'm not the only one who assumed it was); second, that it has since been taken down; third and most importantly, the interview from the Tucson paper with someone who has deep experience in this area. (Yes, the wording of the post is inappropriate and goes against HN guidelines, but that doesn't change the above.) A word in Josef Oehmen's defence: what he wrote was an email to a relative. It isn't his fault that the relative published it, hyped up his credentials misleadingly, and sent it off into viral-land.
• melling 16y ago
  Why is it wrong to follow up when someone is incorrect or inaccurate? "Smart" people are wrong all the time. Some very smart people didn't see the Wall Street crash coming either. I don't think we need to be childish about it, but it's helpful if we can examine when and why we are wrong. Sometimes, "smart" people are wrong an awful lot of the time but we only remember the few times they were correct. There was a recent HN post about criminal profiling that reminded me of this.