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The original title of the blog post "The FDA's War Against America's Health" precisely describes what the blog post is about. The title is inflammatory because
by pharrington 2y ago
The original title of the blog post "The FDA's War Against America's Health" precisely describes what the blog post is about. The title is inflammatory because the entire blog is inflammatory.
Is inflammatory content now allowed on HN?
- FollowingTheDao 2y agoAre not all challenging ideas inflammatory at first? https://daily.jstor.org/why-no-one-believed-einstein/ https://daily.jstor.org/why-no-one-believed-einstein/
- Retric 2y agoNo, not specifically. Relativity was created after experiments had already poked holes in the ether theory. It definitely broke new ground, but from what I found far more scientists viewed it as intriguing rather than inflammatory.
- ttyprintk 2y agoI would even argue that it’s inflammatory to keep developing aether theory after Michaelson-Morley. Persistently devising potentially-lucrative counterexamples: oh, that’s luminiferous aether, I’m working on electromagnetic aether. Today, the last great aether believers like Tesla get a lot of undue credit as scientists rather than as merely aether engineers.
- gcanyon 2y agoToning down the title when the title accurately reflects the tone and thrust of the article does a disservice to the HN audience.