It can be boiled down to incentive alignment - though a lot of people (falsely) ...

ImPostingOnHN · 2024-11-20T19:49:21 1732132161

> It can be boiled down to incentive alignment

Sure, if "it" here means your opinion of what's important.

Incentive alignment and misalignment isn't evidence of wrongdoing, though.

> Having a 'very strong opinion' is a strong indicator that a publication concerned with science has gone off the rails.

Interesting opinion. I thank you for it and respectfully disagree.

23B1 · 2024-11-21T18:03:50 1732212230

Having reliable sources for scientific news and a high standard for truth therein is obviously important, moral, and good. Your opinion is wrong.

ImPostingOnHN · 2024-11-21T21:36:50 1732225010

> Having reliable sources for scientific news and a high standard for truth therein is obviously important, moral, and good.

I'm glad we could find shared ground here. I wholeheartedly agree, even if I respectfully disagree with your totally unrelated very strong opinion that "Having a 'very strong opinion' is a strong indicator that a publication concerned with science has gone off the rails"

23B1 · 2024-11-22T00:15:24 1732234524

It is vitally important that scientists put their duty above their burning desire to have a 'hot take', especially in medicine and public health.

This shouldn't be controversial.