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Amazed to see this one hacker news....I would be interested to find the investigation behind this report.

"Hey are people sick at a hospital somewhere not in australia, like india ?"

"Is it the season for lychees ?"

"Was there once a scientific study where they found this fruit was not perfect?"

"Google says so"

"Thanks I have an article to write. This will be useful for australians, and other folks importing lychee from southeast asia"

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Usually works like this:

"I did something, and it would be valuable to me if people knew about it (or –less frequently– it would be valuable to the world if people knew about it)."

"Let me see who I can spam about this."

"Oh look. Here are 100 people that have written something about health. Let me send them a pitch that makes this seem mysterious and newsworthy"

Overworked reporter: "Oh man. I need to get a story in or my editor will yell at me. I wonder what I should write about?"

Etc.

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