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Have a look at the actual posts to realize why they were flagged. Had they not been, this page would be less than 5% non-cranks. Even as it is, it's hard to br
by friend_Fernando 2y ago
Have a look at the actual posts to realize why they were flagged. Had they not been, this page would be less than 5% non-cranks.
Even as it is, it's hard to break 10%. Sadly, this seems to have become a flamebait/trollbait/crankbait topic.
- alex1138 2y agoMaybe, but depends on what each person considers cranks This is one topic where the establishment view is mostly wrong and people broadly engaging in censorship are on the wrong side of history, period
- dullcrisp 2y agoI don’t think complaining about flagging in general is helpful here. Science hasn’t ever meant that all viewpoints are equal. That would just be chaos. It’s also not decided by popular vote, but if you want peer review instead, then you’ll have to read a peer-reviewed journal rather than Hacker News comments.
- alex1138 2y agoI wouldn't claim all views are equal either, but people are mighty quick to jump on how misinformation is defined (even when that's been proven wrong) here, I don't equate it to many other things
- em500 2y agoLot's of cranks are not sharing any information at all (so can't even be classified as "misinformation"), but pure unfounded opinions without any informative content (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42583516 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42583516).
- alex1138 2y agoWell, that's not any information on its own, but Fauci has a history most people aren't aware of, going back to at least the AIDS crisis