Someone in the comments section of the blog links to an interesting article w.r.t. your first point:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;registered-clinical-trials-make-positive-findings-vanish-1.18181" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;registered-clinical-trials-make-p...</a><p>The snark in the original article makes the author sound like a total idiot.<p>But let&#x27;s not get in the way of HN&#x27;s Two Minutes Hate?