[dnautics]

the article keeps conflating the idea of eradicating human-disease-causing mosquitoes with eradicating all mosquitoes. Presumably the strategy of genetically sterilizing male mosquitoes, for example, would only work for aegypti. The article itself says, "there are thousands of different mosquito species found across the planet, and relatively few of them impact human health"

So eradicating human-threat mosquitoes may not have such a large effect on the global mosquito ecosystem.

[crusso]

On HN several times (that I've observed), this issue has come up and the starting point of the discussion acknowledges the fact that "mosquito" is not just a single species. And we're mostly all just lay people on the subject who can use google.

It's disappointing to see an ostensibly researched article not even approach our remedial level. I wonder why anyone would upvote it.

[rubidium]

use the Flag button on article's like this. If you see articles getting upvotes, and you read the article and think "this is a crappy, poorly written article and a waste of all of our time", Flag it.

[crusso]

I didn't think that I should use flag as a simple downvote.

[rubidium]

From the guidelines: "If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.)"

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

[vorotato]

flag it for me please