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We should probably stop treating debates among "dummies on the internet" as anything other than noise that muddies up the conversation.

Edit: to be clear, this also applies to comment sections on HN :-)

Quite true!

So the debate of the flatness of earth is also not settled based on your measurements of internet sentiment?

I mean, it's certainly settled for me. At the same time, I think it would dishonest to insinuate that there are NOT people claiming the Earth is flat on the internet (Honestly, I don't believe that flat-earthers actually believe that--I think they're all trolling).

So, I don't know. I guess I just wanted to chime in to note that I have seen people repeat this crap about calories.

Internet dummies, and you occasionally get crank doctors espousing these points of view too. Most doctors are smart, but, you know, there are a lot of doctors.