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by mordechai9000 2560 days ago
I think there are a lot of comments that are just unfounded amateur speculation presented as fact, especially for topics outside IT/CS.

On the other hand, I think it's common to see threads that have a high ratio of signal to noise. Like a link to a scientific paper will have one of the authors of the paper in the comments section answering questions.