You've broken the HN guidelines here. Please don't be uncivil, regardless of how wrong another comment is.
I disagree. Calling bullshit "bullshit" isn't uncivil. Cf. Paul Graham's own essay on bullshit: http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html . Or his 2014 tweet on political correctness: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/512776361824354304 .
The objection that I'm being uncivil is DH2, "responding to tone". Yes, my tone is dismissive, specifically because the advice being given ought to be dismissed.
If HN has become a place where unscientific, unsound folk medicine cannot be called "bullshit" then I'll happily take my leave.
The incivility comes more from the combination of aggression and self-righteousness. We don't need that here, and since it detracts from any true information you're conveying, there's no trade-off in simply leaving it out.
(Citing pg makes the opposite point to what I think you intended; I've never once known him to behave like that, either in writing or in person.)
The American Medical Association says in multiple places to use tweezers in a very particular way to remove ticks:
* https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/207551 * https://books.google.com/books?id=2Yg7LVohnXEC&pg=PA314&lpg=...
So how about you let the doctors be doctors and stop spreading misinformation and ignorance?