Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally

Re:Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spr... by SECProto on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:31PM (#22207872)

> The amount of pseudoscience being peddled for attention or thrills in these threads is getting really worrying to me, I had expected something totally different from this community. :/

I believe this is generally the case with most topics outside the standard focus of this site (which I would posit is computers generally). There tends to be a mixture of intelligent, accurate commentary, and intelligent but misled commentary (and my observers bias would further distort the separation between those two categories). It tends to get better as discussion continues, but not always.

That said, this topic is more likely to be sensationalized than most.

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Re:Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spr... by OJFord on Friday January 31, 2020 @10:38PM (#22208479)

When you know enough about something, there's horrible misinformation on it everywhere, even on HN.

But one of my favourite things about HN is the rebuttals, deep-dives, and 'well, actually's of informed commenters discussing niches I know little about.

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Re:Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spr... by SECProto on Friday January 31, 2020 @11:30PM (#22208668)

For sure. The best way to get the right answer on [hackernews] isn't to ask a question, it's to give the wrong answer.

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Re:Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spr... by mirimir on Saturday February 01, 2020 @01:46AM (#22209128)

Actually, both have worked for me.

But yeah, wrong answers are more informative.

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