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Ah, this site again. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5327200 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5327200 for context. The author's posts vary greatly
by ggreer 14y ago
Ah, this site again. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5327200 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5327200 for context.
The author's posts vary greatly in quality. Sometimes they're reasonable. Sometimes they're stuff like "antidepressants in tap water cause autism" (http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/02/antidepressants-tap-water-and-autism.html http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/02/antidepressants-tap-w...) and "Do warnings on cigarette packs cause lung cancer?" (http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/02/do-lung-cancer-warning-labels-cause.html http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/02/do-lung-cancer-warnin...). When an article makes it to the front page of HN, a domain expert usually comes along to tear it apart. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5140049 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5140049 for a recent example.
Combined with the author's constant self-promotion (see https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=techdog https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=techdog), I tend not to believe much written there. He's optimizing for page views, not scientific accuracy.
- stygianguest 14y agoGood point! Though this one post does seem quite well reasoned its message is an easy one (big pharma is evil) and suspect to confirmation bias. If only my browser gave me something to tag the site with your comment, so that next time it comes around I'll remember.
- Samuel_Michon 14y agohttp://tldr.io/ http://tldr.io/ occasionally helps.
- shrikant 14y agoI believe that's what Rbutr is trying to address: http://rbutr.com/ http://rbutr.com/