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> “exaggerate the dangers of vaccines” You really think that this article is trying to exaggerate the dangers of the covid vaccine? Even when the headline star
by machinelearning 5y ago
> “exaggerate the dangers of vaccines”
You really think that this article is trying to exaggerate the dangers of the covid vaccine? Even when the headline starts with “In rare cases”
An excerpt from the article:
Probing possible side effects presents a dilemma to researchers: They risk fomenting rejection of vaccines that are generally safe, effective, and crucial to saving lives. “You have to be very careful” before tying COVID-19 vaccines to complications, Nath cautions. “You can make the wrong conclusion. … The implications are huge.”
Even when the article explicitly qualifies it claims and actively encourages the reader to not exaggerate the claims?
I don’t think OP is “feigning confusion” but rather that people have a knee jerk reaction to anything to do with the risks of the covid vaccine.
- ce4 5y agoHN thrives on the community and its discussion. And when there's little merit in the discussion threads because most have turned or started toxic it doesn't. So sometimes stuff may be flagged for the overall dynamics of a submission - maybe some sort of anti-"eternal September" reaction of the old user base. Especially certain political topics from 2016 to 2021 had this issue and Covid sometimes as well.
- peakaboo 5y agoThreads turn toxic because people treat eachother like the enemy. We constantly fail to respect the other person when he or she has a different point of view.
- sharken 5y agoI think you're right and in vaccine discussions you see this the most I'd argue. If your way of life is changed in a way you disagree with, e.g. forced vaccine or Use of Corona passport, then discussion can get heated and the respect is lost. In this article i find it unprofessional to flag it, i would sincerely hope that Hacker News is better than that. It should be the merit of the article and not politics that decide if something gets flagged or not.
- machinelearning 5y agoHN is not just a discussion board, it also serves as a place to get caught up on the latest happenings around the world. Hence hacker news. Flagging a news article for removal just because the readers have no civility is untoward. If anything, it is the community and moderation teams responsibility to ensure toxic comments are downvoted or removed. If you decide to never allow anything “controversial” on HN, it is an easy backdoor for bad actors to get articles they don’t like flagged. All they have to do is make comments inciting controversy or astroturf the comments from both sides.
- ce4 5y agoI haven't flagged this article, I just wanted to add some reasoning why others might have done so. There might also be some kind of fatigue wrt. pandemic news.