Daniel Pinker's new book The Sense of Style talks about how correct English usage is a signal to readers that an author has made some effort to think clearly. A

Daniel Pinker's new book The Sense of Style talks about how correct English usage is a signal to readers that an author has made some effort to think clearly. At a wild guess, the author of the Medium essay submitted here is not a native speaker of English, or at least certainly not a careful typist, because a misspelling like "virusus" for "viruses" in an article ABOUT viruses does not inspire confidence that the author checked his own writing carefully. To write that "that there is some filter, which is not letting civilizations to rich a higer level of evolution" is illiterate both as to spelling and as to understanding of biology. After reading this hurriedly prepared essay, I cannot recommend it as a worthy submission to Hacker News for our thoughtful discussion here.