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Comment by npsimons | Hacker News Reader

Do we really need more crapily to none researched dietary fads on HN?

Seconded. Between all the overreactions and slavish devotion that's being thrown around, it's starting to look less like a community of probing, thoughful, inquisitive thinkers and tinkerers, and more like like a religion full of sects.

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The founder, Dave Asprey, actually could not be more relevant to this community. He was the first person to sell something through the internet, and made 6 million dollars when he was 26 by selling his company Exodus Communications. Since then he has worked for several tech all-star companies and today leads a publicly traded cloud computing security company as Vice President.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/asprey

That resume doesn't lie.

He is absolutely relevant to this community. That doesn't make him a dietitian or a source for scientific conclusion. Nor does it make everything he puts onto paper relevant to this community.

And he's clearly got something to sell with this whole Bulletproof thing.

Okay, by that standard, we should be posting theological links from Pat Robertson on HN, or any of a dozen other hucksters who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps or pioneered ways to fleece suckers. I mean, obviously they're successful, why shouldn't we listen to their insights?

I'd truly be interested in Asprey's business insights (particularly startups), but IMHO we've had more than enough unscientific dietary claims on HN to last us for a while.

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