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by garbagetime 1262 days ago
It's not apparant to me. Cancer claim seemed like a conditional one.
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> My 3 most important papers—that will go down as turning points in the history of computer science—have a combined 0 citations, and 2 of them not only were not in a journal, but they were even flagged and removed from arxiv

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34259358

Have you read the papers? Might be they're good, but rejected for dumb/annoying reasons.

Exagerating about these things is a personality trait, not a mental illness.

Maybe the papers are totally crank, but as I said, not immediately apparant

Not immediately apparent, but as I said, going through their HN submissions and Twitter, it is apparent. Many upvotes and other replies to their comments in the past few months agree.
It's not apparent to me.

HN users tend to think similarly to each other and are often wrong.