[fsckboy]

where it says he took all his savings and "beat arthritis": it doesn't appear he has arthritis, he's an entrepreneur who took all his savings and founded a drug startup company with an idea he had around the time Pfizer laid him off

[Cthulhu_]

The title is a bit misleading, but technically correct, as in it doesn't say my arthritis. But I'm still going to take it, along with every other headline about medical (or energy) breakthrough with a biiiig grain of salt, as these are often sales pitches to attract investors.

[stronglikedan]

It's not a misleading title at all. It's the people that infer something the title doesn't state that are misleading themselves.

[dazzawazza]

It's because this is a marketing piece. It's not a lie but there is a gloss of PR.

[ncr100]

I disagree with the critique - his JOB was / is to FIGHT arthritis on a scientific basis.

Reasoning: He does not come off as a person without sympathy, and without empathy, so I feel comfortable assuming he FEELS it when the downstream users of his discoveries achieve improvement in their life due to his "fighting" medical work.

[kazinator]

I got that just from reading the title of the HN submission (except for the detail of being laid off by Pfizer).

[627467]

yeah. somehow I also thought the same, but both interpretations are valid. I felt more irked by the title being in the first person when in fact the article is not written by the person seemingly making that statement

[cqqxo4zV46cp]

Yeah. It’s completely unambiguously slimy. As a result, I feel absolutely zero connection with the author. Guessing that wasn’t the intention.

[ncr100]

Notice the audience --

A national general daily newspaper.

> Guessing that wasn’t the intention.

No guessing needed.

Therefore the article itself is slimy, it is overt, and you are reading it VIA a tech-blog.

The slimy idea COULD be valid if there is the belief that BECAUSE this article is linked by a tech-blog (HN), that it is a technical article. The OP, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shoggouth could be the person you'd want to direct the critque at. However since the mandate of HN is not restricted to tech articles, merely interesting tech related stuff often with an entrepreneurial bent, it is appropriate.

So, not slimy in any way.

* https://www.thetimes.com/static/about-us/