This comment broke the site guidelines. Even if you're right, it is a problem to address another user this way, because the container isn't strong enough to hold that level of (let's call it) energy. When you post like this, you're breaking the already-weak bonds that hold this community together, which is what makes it a moderation issue.

Would you mind taking a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting? Those rules are all there because of past problems in the threads. Note this one: "Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine."

I agree, and I'm sorry. I can see how this kind of reaction to a nonsense statement can become problematic, if everybody uses it.

Appreciated!

Next time, before you state that a sentence "is pure bs", consider applying the principle of charity and wondering whether you might be in the wrong.

Here, you misread. OP said "they look similar" and "they" refers to remdesivir and adenosine, from the prior sentence's clause "Remdesivir is an analog of adenosine".

Well you can look at the structures on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adenosin.svg and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Remdesivir.svg

See how both of them have a ribose ring? And then the functional group attached to be 1' carbon, that's also similar to adenine.

Let’s call it the Ocean’s Eleven Phenomenon, the moment when two or more experts be like “See that? There.” “Yeah, Christ, that’s totally that” “yeah... 5 years old would notice” and you just stand in between dumbfounded

I could certainly believe that "similar" molecules behave alike, but it would be a cheap belief, like e.g. some of my friends believe in psychics. There would be no discovery, just a pseudo-scientific bullying.

I've been stuck in this uncanny valley before, and caused the phenomenon to happen to others too.

I think he means look in the structure of the adenosine molecule, not the structure of the virus's RNA.