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Comment by zukzuk | Hacker News Reader

zerohedge.com is leaking again

Indeed. Anyone who follows zerohedge has probably noticed that the economy was on the brink of collapse every single week of the past decade.

I do follow zerohedge since they often report on things others won't, but I take their analysis with a grain of salt.

That site is so cynical and toxic. I regret giving it any significant amount of time. WallStBets reminds me a lot of it. Lots of manipulative content.

Zerhoedge has also been a month ahead of the media with respect to coronavirus reports.

The fact that ZH speculates about conspiracies does not mean that everything on their site is BS.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Yet useless for telling the time

That’s precisely the point.

They've been posting summaries of published literature out of China in real time.

And a clock three seconds fast is never right.

If you doomsay about everything that could possibly cause a crisis, you may eventually be right about one of them causing a crisis. Does it make their articles in 2018 about how the economy has about to collapse more accurate?

Summarizing published literature out of China with estimates for R0 and CFR is not doomsdaying.

CNN and Fox also misrepresent news regularly - that doesn't mean they have nothing useful to report.

> The fact that ZH speculates about conspiracies does not mean that everything on their site is BS.

It's exactly that reason why they are a useless source for information.

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