Hacker News Reader

fair enough - I last looked at it in detail about the time my daughter had her seizures and found it useful. If you look beyond the emotional content there were some fairly balanced opinions. I think it is unfair to call concerned parents "activists" though.

View on HN

Here in the United States it is rather routine to call people who are active in support of a cause "activists." Some people seem to consider that term derogatory, but many people just think that distinguishes interested persons from more deeply involved persons.

Fair enough. According to the article, the mother of two children in the original study, who referred a third, was referred to by other media as a “JABS activist”. I shouldn’t have used that term myself.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com