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I bring up some simple questions and I am immediately silenced. I guess I didn't realize HN was anti-science and anti-intellectual.
by paulhauggis 11y ago
I bring up some simple questions and I am immediately silenced.
I guess I didn't realize HN was anti-science and anti-intellectual.
- dang 11y ago"Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- gnaritas 11y agoYou aren't being intellectual, not in the least.
- prawn 11y agoGoing a bit grey isn't being "immediately silenced". People can still read your comment. I think you're reading too much into the "the science is settled" comment. It's a field where powerful interests work aggressively to discredit a majority view of scientists, and it's likely that some (magnified by the media) may use a term like that out of frustration to imply consensus and a wish to have policy makers progress on action. I know it's easy to find an aberration on Wikipedia, but the pros know all that stuff, they live it every minute of the day.