80-year Harvard study has been showing how to live a healthy and happy life

Re:80-year Harvard study has been showing how to live a heal... by dang on Friday July 21, 2017 @02:57AM (#14818590)

Please don't post snarky internet insta-dismissals to HN. They greatly lower the quality of discussion, even when they have some good points to make. There are several such posts in this thread and that's a problem.

The entire genre of internet comments that dismiss the life-work of others with a contemptuous hand-wave is problematic. Critique is good, but it should seriously engage with what it is criticizing. That takes effort, for which nastiness is an ugly substitute.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14816358 and marked it off-topic.

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Re:80-year Harvard study has been showing how to live a heal... by LoSboccacc on Friday July 21, 2017 @05:15AM (#14819105)

There are several post of such nature precisely because the whole post is a feel good piece with pretend-science, severe bias and shaky conclusions

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Re:80-year Harvard study has been showing how to live a heal... by dang on Friday July 21, 2017 @11:32AM (#14821312)

Even if that's true, the I-know-better, snark-plus-clichés genre is a problem here regardless of how bad an article is. This sort of comment is common on the internet and poisons the environment it's posted to. By practicing it here, you degrade the community and make it less interesting for all of us. That's the real reason not to do it: for much the same reason you don't litter in parks. We want thoughtful conversation here, not acid. Even about bad articles.

Btw that longitudinal Harvard study has been well-known and interesting for long time, despite its flaws. Previous HN threads have discussed it without sinking into snark and I doubt that the community has become smarter since then.

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