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Comment by elicash | Hacker News Reader

Sorry, is this verifiable elsewhere? I'm automatically skeptical of anybody with a free WP theme with no About section who is pushing a stock, and right now this is #1 on Hacker News.

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Some backstory on the author: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Zayner

And evidence of a tie to the site this is posted on: https://mobile.twitter.com/4LOVofScience/status/105956739233...

Edit: But, yeah, site needs an "about us" page.

Thanks, I had no idea it was that guy!

Josiah knows a bit about CRISPR, having injected it into himself - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/24/josiah-zayne...

But yeah this antisense site seems to be linked to him (antisense links to the-odin which is Josiah's site selling bio-hacking kits)

So: a) He might know what he's talking about but b) he's using his own platform to give this opinion

Make of that what you will.

I mean the paper is really the interesting part http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/07/16/1802343115

Does everyone with useful information need to be a skilled web designer to be credible?

Obviously not. But it's like the old twitter egg profile accounts. It was so easy to create a fake egg account that I'm not going to take my investment advice from them, especially if they don't have information about who they are readily available. It's deserving of an extra level of skepticism is all I'm saying.

If you don't agree with that very basic idea, then I don't know what to tell you.

There's an interesting dovetail with comments on the post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18389080 about anonymity and mathematical proofs.

And furthermore, copy text that was clearly not even edited

The article uses layman's language with no reference to an authority, so indeed, we should be skeptical.

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