I've personally resisted the urge to participate in that as I believe it's counter to the "hackers only" philosophy of HN but, as someone with a B.S. in Biology

I've personally resisted the urge to participate in that as I believe it's counter to the "hackers only" philosophy of HN but, as someone with a B.S. in Biology and an MPH in Health Policy, pretty much -ANY TIME- medicine, health, biology, etc. come up in HN it's a barrage of ignorance, errors, and the sort of intense nonsense bullshit that I would expect of corners of the internet populated by people far dumber than HN's crowd.