[DoctorOetker]

>It's a statement worth downvoting because it's laden with assumptions

Every statement refers to assumptions or prerequisite knowledge. Should every comment re-include basic education, higher educations, all the text-books and journal articles supporting each assumption? What is known as facts by some may seem like vacuous assumptions to others.

When making such a comment, could you at least point to the apparent assumptions you are unable to follow?

>Likewise, mystery is something sorely lacking in everyday life, and it's a shitty move to cast aspersions toward publications on the basis that you don't like it. If anything, we should do more to cultivate curiosity and mysticism.

What is missing in everyday life is enthusiasm, excitement, ... not mysticism. There are plenty of open problems that are truly mystic for now. Collecting a specimen and not mentioning already done or upcoming sequencing effort is just feeding inappropriate mysticism. Think of how many children have weird fantasies of Loch Ness monster, Yeti, Area 51 aliens, etc... What a waste of mankinds power to fantasize. Give the kids unfettered access to journal articles without paywall such that they can revel in profound actual mysteries as opposed to artificial ones... I don't think theres anything arrogant about such a position.