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Nobody is "checking the details" in this thread - they're just wildly speculating based on their feelings and asserting that the absence of evidence about the v
by mikeyouse 4y ago
Nobody is "checking the details" in this thread - they're just wildly speculating based on their feelings and asserting that the absence of evidence about the virus originating at the WIV is very clearly suspicious...
- systemvoltage 4y agoSpeaking generally, every single time a new study is discussed on HN, the first comment talks about how it doesn't do what it is supposed to. For e.g., a topic about "X cures cancer" has a comment that's at the very top that claims "No, X doesn't cure cancer, except in these narrow cases" and then sources the details in the paper. That seems to me the right thing to do. HN does that very well.
- mikeyouse 4y agoIf you read closer, you'll notice that it's not at all what is happening here. Maybe 1/10th of the comments are about the actual paper? Fewer? It's just mindless evidence-free conspiracy mongering including fun little subthreads about how you can't rule out that the US actually created the pandemic to punish China; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32252553 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32252553
- systemvoltage 4y agoWe are talking past each other. I’m speaking more generally since you’re talking about this entire community. But you have just this thread to point for an example.