If I had to guess a lot of people view the article as ethno-politically motivated instead of just involving science.

And we choose to downvote to depict what we want HN to represent rather risk getting piggy backed with “how dare you” rebuttals and downvoted as I’m sure I’m about to receive…

I have a giant bag of Aji-No-Moto in my pantry. It’ll last me the rest of my life because I use it sparingly. And I do so because it seems like we truly don’t know if msg is harmless. I couldn’t imagine a synthetic food product being harmless but that’s obviously my uneducated guess.

It frustrates me that there’s people out there who think I can’t hold those opinions without being labeled some sort of Xenophobe.