>If you want to discuss our report on Hacker News, you will have to help us overcome the systemic reactionary bias on HN.

The message is clear: HN has a "bias" (according to them) and their readers must take action in order to discuss it.

It could be that readers here disagree with them, it could be that readers don't buy their attempt at character assassination, instead they play victims as if there was a grand conspiracy to keep a homeless old man with cancer at the head of a nonprofit.