Your comment here crossed into attack, which is one reason this thread turned into a flamewar—and you perpetuated the flamewar badly downthread. Please don't do those things on this site, regardless of how strongly you feel about science.
HN is an internet watercooler—not an academic journal. The goal is to have curious conversation. Conversation involves anecdotes and it involves people being wrong about things, including important things, much of the time. If someone happens to be wrong, or you feel they are, piling on and shaming them is definitely not helpful. It is only going to evoke worse reactions from themselves and from others, and throw the thread off balance.
Fortunately, we don't have to look far for examples of how to get this kind of thing right. These other users all responded to the same comment in a conversational way:
They made much the same point that you did, but they did it respectfully and in keeping with the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you'd please review the guidelines and use HN that way too from now on, we'd be grateful. Of course it's not always possible—we all have our triggers and we all get into states where the internal reaction overflows. But in those cases, it's important not to post.
HN is an internet watercooler—not an academic journal. The goal is to have curious conversation. Conversation involves anecdotes and it involves people being wrong about things, including important things, much of the time. If someone happens to be wrong, or you feel they are, piling on and shaming them is definitely not helpful. It is only going to evoke worse reactions from themselves and from others, and throw the thread off balance.
Fortunately, we don't have to look far for examples of how to get this kind of thing right. These other users all responded to the same comment in a conversational way:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30042547
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30041780
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30040903
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30040694
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30040674
They made much the same point that you did, but they did it respectfully and in keeping with the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you'd please review the guidelines and use HN that way too from now on, we'd be grateful. Of course it's not always possible—we all have our triggers and we all get into states where the internal reaction overflows. But in those cases, it's important not to post.