[wbronitsky]

This person, the GP, now seems to be actively spreading disinformation.

I caught them claiming a complaint about efficacy in the Pfizer vaccine was about safety, after they put me down to try to make sure I didn’t read the study. I read the study and you can go look at my response[1]. The tell of the troll is that he never comes back to finish arguments....

The fact that HN thinks they have a handle on the disinformation here is laughable. This site was featured in a New Yorker article, does not filter out obvious propaganda, and allows anyone to say anything as long as its cordial. To think they could combat nation state level attacks with two people is ridiculous. This is a soft target.

The only thing we can do is pay attention to what our eyes and ears tell us.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26480280

[waterheater]

>The tell of the troll is that he never comes back to finish arguments....

Really? Perhaps people on HN have lives and dislike engaging with hostile actors on the Internet.

>after they put me down to try to make sure I didn’t read the study

If you think I was putting you down, I sincerely apologize. I simply meant that anyone who understands the science well should read it. Nothing more. The insight of the knowledgeable on contradictory information is most helpful in challenging times.

I am surprised you appear to have engaged in a vendetta based upon a misinterpretation.

[wbronitsky]

Yet again you resort to troll tactics.

You have yet to come clean about the obvious disinformation you are spreading, and seek only to redirect the conversation to something interpersonal instead of factual.

Setting the interpersonal aside, How can one claim in good faith that they are representing the truth, when they demonstrably lie about the content of their citations to further their argument and refuse to reconcile with that?

State actor or not, you are using troll tactics to spread disinformation, and it is blatantly obvious. Receipts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26480280

[emodendroket]

I think people can have wrongheaded beliefs without state actors being involved, and after the number of such accusations I've received myself I'm pretty skeptical of them.

[wbronitsky]

That’s fair. State actor or not, I feel that I have proved that the account in question is using trolling tactics to spread vaccine disinformation.

[emodendroket]

That's not really incompatible with him just sincerely believing what he's saying. I'm not saying he's right because I think what he's writing is nonsense, but I doubt there's a master plan here.