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I am aghast to log in to HN on a Sunday morning and find the "top topic" to be a post from the MailOnSunday site. This august institution of lies, half truths a
by bdfh42 17y ago
I am aghast to log in to HN on a Sunday morning and find the "top topic" to be a post from the MailOnSunday site. This august institution of lies, half truths and mostly made up stuff is a British byword for scientific reporting - in every negative way possible.
Without doing any fact checking or research of my own part (just bitter experience) I declare this "absolute tosh".
- bumblebird 17y agoDismissing things based purely on their source makes you pretty much as bad as they are. If there's real evidence that proves this story is false, it'd be cool to see it. I think it's in the spirit of HN to discuss content rather than source.
- tome 17y agoNo it doesn't. People who read Hacker News (and people in general) simply don't have the time to perform an in depth verification of the truth of any story they might read here, so it makes sense to link only to reputable sources. The Mail is not one of them; people who are not from the UK might not realise this.
- bumblebird 17y agoAs noted elsewhere in the thread, find the same story from other sources if you prefer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/09/shipping-pollution http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/09/shipping-p... "The calculations of ship and car pollution are based on the world's largest 85,790KW ships' diesel engines which operate about 280 days a year generating roughly 5,200 tonnes of SOx a year, compared with diesel and petrol cars which drive 15,000km a year and emit approximately 101gm of SO2/SoX a year."