[johnqian]

Bizarre that this is the top comment on this thread right now. I agree they've done some damage, but you seem to have dismissed their justifications without any explanation. Do you really believe we should trust random tabloids just because "trust is a beautiful thing"? I was already plenty aware of fake news and p-hacking, but this article still proved useful to me by demonstrating exactly how far you can go with it and which sources to not trust.

[sriram_malhar]

I can offer you a thousand examples of "How far can fake news travel". Pizzagate, anti-vax, moon conspiracies ...

"_Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it_" (Jonathan Swift, 1710)

Not only don't I want anyone to add to a pile of mistruths, I want purveyors of misinformation to face social and financial disincentives.

> Do you really believe we should trust random tabloids

Of course not. "Tabloid" === trashy journalism, so no, no trust. Those of us who believe in being good and not misleading people should join efforts to make sure that misinformation does not get out of hand; at the very least we should not be manufacturing trash of our own to prove to others how badly it can go.