HN has a way of self correcting. Come back in a few hours and most of the bad comments should be killed by down votes.

Sometimes when a thread or story is killed, though, the comments survive and multiply because the broader community can't moderate them.

True, good point. I've seen that before. I'll come back later.

Also, to be clear, disagreement and skepticism about what's written in the article is a healthy and good thing. But the disagreement should take into account the full content of the article, since many counter-arguments here were specifically discussed in it.