They aren't FUD. Click on the accounts mentioning Ivermectin, and they are just new, and only have one comment.
Sure, it might be that a dozen long time lurkers had to create an account to made people aware of it. Its plausible.
I think its more plausible that HN is suffering a disinformation attack by a cheap as botnet.
A limit of "wait 1 day after registering to comment" would make whatever cheap botnet is doing this much less effective. Since after 1 day most stories are not in the frontpage anymore.
It's not a botnet. Am a long-time hacker news reader who thinks ivermectin is a better covid cure based on science than what Pfizer is rushing to produce (Pfizer's drug hasn't even finished Phase 1 FDA trials, Ivermectin is FDA approved with ~40 years safety data).
I use multiple machines and didn't remember the password for this account so created a new one. My interest is not in spamming, but having a genuine discussion, why ivermectin isn't more widely used. There are multiple prominent doctors who believe it could end the covid pandemic. Why get so excited about new medications when generics are cheaper, and have better safety data.
Am interested in a genuine discussion of facts. There's a lot of censorship around Ivermectin. Youtube specifically says it can delete videos mentioning ivermectin as a treatment for covid. Since when is science advanced through censorship instead of debate?
> Since when is science advanced through censorship instead of debate?
Science is never advanced through debate; it's advanced through research. Research which gets repeated by different teams, in different places, in different circumstances, and conducted in different ways, while still producing the same results.
Random people on internet discussion boards who want to advance science via a "debate" is how misinformation is advanced.
Sure, it might be that a dozen long time lurkers had to create an account to made people aware of it. Its plausible.
I think its more plausible that HN is suffering a disinformation attack by a cheap as botnet.
A limit of "wait 1 day after registering to comment" would make whatever cheap botnet is doing this much less effective. Since after 1 day most stories are not in the frontpage anymore.