My guess is that people flagged it because they don’t like the authors. That seems to happen a lot around here. I consume HN via a feed reader, I see everything that flows through the RSS feed. Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenberger stories/posts always seem to get flagged. Even when the topics are HN appropriate.

I agree. If true, this appears to represent an enormous hack against vulnerabilities in humans. It should not be suppressed.