I'm late to this, but your comments in this thread broke the HN guidelines extremely badly, not just in this comment but also these others:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720177

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40713066

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40713015

I'm not commenting on whether you're right or wrong about biology, obviously—I have no idea. But it's not ok to violate HN's rules like this, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. I appreciate that you've been a biophysicist for 30 years and we certainly want that people with that depth of expertise on HN, but even more important is that you not put down or ridicule others.

I know that in the history of science and academia there has at times been a culture of hard-nosed ridicule of others who are deemed to be wrong and/or not knowledgeable enough to enter a discussion. Perhaps that approach is still vital in some professional circles, maybe? I don't know, but I can tell you for sure that on an open internet forum like HN, such an approach just poisons everything it touches. People are allowed to be wrong here.

Incidentally, if you do happen to be right, that makes it even worse to post these sorts of attacks, because then you end up giving people a reason to discredit you which has nothing to do with the truth. Lots of past explanation about this if anyone cares: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....

You've broken the site guidelines since then too, so this is unfortunately a pattern:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40744320

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40739423

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

This is definitely over the line.

cc @dang?