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It probably got flagged. The penalty for a flag is greater than the boost from an upvote — it seems like even a 1:4 flag rate is enough to sink a story like a r
by chc 15y ago
It probably got flagged. The penalty for a flag is greater than the boost from an upvote — it seems like even a 1:4 flag rate is enough to sink a story like a rock. Possible reasons for flagging include:
• Deepak Chopra is widely considered to be a quack, but the article talks semi-approvingly of him
• Although the general topic of the article is kind of interesting, the article itself says very little (sans quotes, it's seven very short and not particularly info-dense paragraphs)
• The article seems a bit afield from the general focus of Hacker News, so people might have just thought it was OT clutter
- mattm 15y ago> Deepak Chopra is widely considered to be a quack Can you explain this a bit more? I'm just curious as I've come across his stuff before but never opposing views.
- chc 15y agoWell, his teachings are sort of a weird mix of medicine, psychology and pseudo-religious mumbo-jumbo, apparently borrowing and adapting liberally from anything that suits him. For example, he has repeatedly tried to tie his ideas into quantum mechanics, to the chagrin of physicists everywhere: http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/11/16/deepak-chopra-mangles-quantum-mechanics-again/ http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/11/16/deepak-chopra-mangles-... Needless to say, there are a lot of people to whom this does not signal credibility.