"But yes, reason has little purchase in this place. The community has very strong biases and refuses to give time to opposition."
What exactly do you mean?
You're being downvoted purely because people disagree with you. HN is supposed to be above that.
Re:Protein that destroys HIV discovered
by freesciencenow on Tuesday August 24, 2010 @01:40AM
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While I didn't downvote him, I agree with the downvoters. His substantive claims about how the research/peer review system works -- upon which is entire argument is based -- are factually incorrect.
Where did you go to school? From my experience yours is most atypical.
I don't sell applications. I configure and make slight modifications to free applications, or applications my employer pays for (and in my experience the ones that charge have negative value from my perspective, while the free ones save me hours of time.) So feel free to copy my code and documentation and put it all online. Those that aren't available online are only closed because I felt my clients/employers wouldn't appreciate their free availability. You would be giving me a great 'out' to give back to the community.
But yes, reason has little purchase in this place. The community has very strong biases and refuses to give time to opposition.
That said, long live liberty.