Recently, we merry mods have been noticing many-a-comments being in the report queue for perceived negativity (the aim of the community being to provide “a break from the incessant negativity and rage”). What actions should we do about these, if any? Do we need a newsome another-rule for this?
Here’s what I think: Some skepticism and scrutiny is always quite needed knowledge—especially against information that’s actually untrue/misleading—and any bars I can think of for removing negative comments would apply to reasonable skepticism as well. Thus, the mod team is asking y’all to drop some bars!
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Assorted examples of reported comments
Actually, you’ve missed the mark. It’s not whining about an advancement, it’s legitimate criticism of the US health industry. He’s just saying what we all know to be true which is that regardless of technological improvements, lifesaving care will continue to be ruinously expensive for those that are able to access it and gatekept from many others.
If you have a problem with comments like these undermining celebration of scientific progress, then maybe you should think about the structural political issues that lead people to disillusionment and cynicism rather than labeling people as conspiracy theorists.
You know “big red“ voted for Trump. It’s a cute story, but I hope he gets what he voted for In the end
It’s too bad that curing patients is not a sustainable business model. Even if this did work we would only ever see it developed if you had to take it twice a month for the rest of your life in order to survive.
Edit: sorry, I just noticed this is in Uplifting News. So, let’s be optimistic. Maybe global capitalism will collapse and governments will start trying to take care of people.
Nobody said anything about ICE, we’re talking about the military known for bombing weddings in multiple middle eastern countries and then bombing ambulances when they respond.
If you have the money to commit atrocities in a dozen countries at once, you have money to spare.
That’s .world for you; complaining about Reddit while trying to recreate it exactly
It’s very sad to see hype like this. They only had 30 enrolled, this was just a safety study, and while the data looks promising, there is certainly not enough statistical power, which is why there is no approval yet.
Shame on the BBC. If you are going to quote invesigators, you should state that they have paid consultancy deals with UniQure. The same two people were equally excited about a Roche therapy years ago…
But UniCure stock went up 200% today, which is the point.
the last example was under “Huntington’s disease successfully treated for first time”. the importance of the news comes from the fact that treatment was even effective on 30 patients. that said the comment’s also a reasonable amount of skepticism, so i too have much higher levels of opposition against removing it.
And it makes sense that it was not a FULL rebuttal, only adding context (that the reporters were over-hyping it from the actual science done, which tbh is far more common than not these days). Truth is stranger - and more complex - than Fiction, after all. I see no schadenfreude in it at all, yes it is “negative” but in a way that is helpful, it is respectful, and polite (as much as can be expected). I suppose I can see from some people’s perspective though that it does NOT serve as a break from the incessant negativity and rage, because it changes the hopeful outlook to rage-inducing for the media hype, although then as people said it goes back to hope again. Yes, a tricky business indeed to figure that one out…
I like how you left it to the community to decide via their votes exactly how relevant it is. If it had simply said something like “get bent BBC and UniQure”, then yes remove it unequivocally, but since it is on the line… leave it to the entire community rather than have to take on that burden all by yourselves?