[lucretian]

you use the word "lie" here with loose abandon and with astounding confidence in your ability to infer motivations of every single member of a massive and complex system of public health and medical professionals.

frankly, this is conspiracy talk and it's pathetic to see it upvoted.

[mcguire]

There is a strong trend of anti-intellectualism in modern culture that extends to HN. If someone says something that later turns out to be false, then they are considered to be lying, and their supposed lie is used to justify disbelief in anything any other expert says.

It's a violation of basic reasoning skills as well as the HN rules, but it will always will get upvoted because it satisfies a certain kind of hubris: "If I don't know something then no one could possibly know it and therefore the idea I came up with after 10 seconds of thought is just as valid as anyone else's."

[lucretian]

yes. isn't this place supposed to be strongly moderated to prevent this kind of garbage?