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TLDR: Mr Tyson pissed off the wrong people on Twitter (guess who) so now it's open season.

Complaints of this nature have been going on for a while, but they get flagged off HN in record time by assblasted Tyson fans.

They get flagged because they don't come close to belonging on HN.

Please don't post unsubstantive comments here.

Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson all project a proud, willful disrespect of philosophy, which has been noted and argued about on HN substantively. I'm sure Tyson's Internet superstardom with the Reddit and Imgur crowd has nothing to do with the instant backlash against only criticism of him though, right?

I'm not sure I understand why you're irritated. There's a pox on all of them at HN, and a pox there shall remain.

Controversies about these characters mostly aren't interesting (in HN's sense) whether they're in the key of zeal or the key of critique. Whoever's flagging them is doing us all a favor.

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