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HN is also complicit. I learned about the BMJ letter (https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2957 https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2957) from the HN article h
by NoPie 5y ago
HN is also complicit. I learned about the BMJ letter (https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2957 https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2957) from the HN article
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29582147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29582147
As you can see, it is gone, practically in a few minutes after I had read it. Why? Is it because HN is a tech website and this not related to tech? Even though there are many articles related to covid?
Or is it because BMJ articles are meant for healthcare professionals? I am also a healthcare professional but don't have time to read all journals and sometimes I rely on blogs and even HN to bring the most interesting articles to my notice.
The third possibility is that some HN voters don't want to admit possibility that the current political establishment was wrong about vaccine mandates. Or at least that some respectable healthcare professionals are against them.
- dang 5y agoUsers flagged the post you're linking to. We didn't see that one. I probably would have turned off the flags if I had seen it. Be careful not to draw excessively general conclusions from these data points. The current post, for example, spend 22 hours on HN's front page. That's as much exposure as anything gets here.