You are perhaps arbitrarily choosing what is BS, based on the old primate behavior (I'm subject to it too) of choosing a 'team'. If my team is HN, I look for wa

You are perhaps arbitrarily choosing what is BS, based on the old primate behavior (I'm subject to it too) of choosing a 'team'. If my team is HN, I look for ways it can be winning; I root for it. IOW, how do you know where the BS is, HN or the OP? Another way of framing it: Which is the BS, a quick take by a random commenter on an Internet bulletin board or a scientifically researched, written, reviewed, and published document, often done over years, by an expert in the field with a PhD? I've said before: If the OP author posted on HN and said 'PhD who does research in this field here, and I think ...', they'd be upvoted. But if they do 1000x the work and 'post' to a scientific journal, it's almost always rejected by many on HN.