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Re:Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble fo... by deadmetheny on Thursday October 26, 2017 @12:02PM (#15560114)
Don't kid yourself. People can and do disagree, but they doesn't preclude the fact that astroturfing absolutely does happen as well, and it's absolutely a problem.
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Re:Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble fo... by searine on Thursday October 26, 2017 @02:32PM (#15561664)
>but they doesn't preclude the fact that astroturfing absolutely does happen as well, and it's absolutely a problem.

Occam's razor. What is more likely :

A. This normal person on the internet disagrees with me.

B. There is a multinational conspiracy to control the narrative on topic X and in reality everyone universally agrees with me that topic X is a bad thing.

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Re:Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble fo... by kaybe on Thursday October 26, 2017 @06:59PM (#15563991)
Your phrasing makes this quite unbalanced.

How about

B. Huge conglomerate with huge advertising budget uses some of that money on new innovative grass-roots advertising strategy (which is not illegal and can be very effective especially compared to online ads).

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Re:Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble fo... by deadmetheny on Thursday October 26, 2017 @02:38PM (#15561717)
You are hopeless.
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Re:Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble fo... by dang on Saturday October 28, 2017 @03:22PM (#15576382)
This breaks the HN guidelines. Please post civilly and substantively or not at all, regardless of how wrong someone else is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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