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She might be right but, as of now, the evidence shows that she is probably not right. But as with everything, contrarian point of view is always popular on the
by tlogan 5y ago
She might be right but, as of now, the evidence shows that she is probably not right.
But as with everything, contrarian point of view is always popular on the internet. And we all want be in the know (have some secret knowledge) thus posts like this are popular.
So if she is really right we will feel like winners - if not, who cares: it is internet.
- didibus 5y agoYa, it's so easy to point out something might not be exactly the way we thought, this position is probably the statistical more likely outcome anyways, we always refine our understanding of the universe year over year, it's unlikely we cracked the full extent of it yet. So if you just lived as a contrarian over time it be easy to always point out how we had one or more things "wrong", and make the claim you were thus right all along. What I'd like to see more of is, alright smarty pants, what's your alternate theory and where is your superior evidence, and how is it more useful?
- shusaku 5y agoThe love of contrarian views can be quite nauseating on hacker news. Post a somewhat mainstream, but interesting article, and prepare to watch it get nit-picked to death before commenters conclude it was only published due to reviewer friendships and p hacking. Meanwhile a contrarian article is immediately accepted as fact and the only reason scientists haven’t agreed is that they’re too stubborn.