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Thanks for the context! The aha link GP shared seems to be the abstract for the poster discussed in this Twitter thread. So not a peer reviewed study, and plenty of red flags in the poster content according to the Twitter thread, including the unlisted conflict of interest on the part of the poster author
Just like the rest of antivaxer bullshit.
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IMO, it's unfortunate that you see my comments/threads as invariably destructive & agenda-driven, essentially putting them on a level with this [1] (although that user wasn't banned). I'd be glad to continue the discussions about the pandemic. Your site, your decision. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29328994
You can't get meaningful signal out of pointing to one bad comment like that. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... ). I've responded now. Bad as that comment was, it's clear from the account history that there's no parallel between how they've been using HN and what we banned you for. I assume I explained the latter clearly en…
I pointed at a single comment in the same tree to better understand your reasoning for the ban (You cannot see each comment, that's obviously unrealistic. Still, I assumed that you at least reviewed the tree).
> there's no parallel between how they've been using HN and what we banned you for
How I recently used HN (last 5 comments):
- Provided missing context to unfounded vaccine skepticism - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29328687
- Asked for more information/reasoning behind vaccine skepticism - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29328216
- Expanded vaccine skeptical comment without judgement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29322045
- Added statements from original study author to put unfounded vaccine skepticism into perspective - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29316229
- Tried to put hospitalizations into perspective, citing CDC study - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29299661
You say my account is agenda-driven. What's my agenda? Where am I fighting an ideological battle? Am I pro- or anti-vaccine? Maybe both? Or maybe I am just trying to have "curious conversations" on a topic I'm currently most curious about. To get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
If that's not OK because it's too focused on one topic and therefore not curious enough, well then I accept the ban.