It veered off topic. I agree that there's a point of connection between the media/tech/institutional treatment of that question and this one, but arguing about who said "man made" vs. whatever a year ago is way into a different field of weeds.

Your comment bears some responsibility for that, btw. If you had posted something less flamebaity and more thoughtful, the subthread would probably have been better. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...