That may be, but it&#x27;s not obvious from the link, and it&#x27;s not clear to me that it would have been easy to discover. &quot;Don&#x27;t pay attention to things that aren&#x27;t true&quot; doesn&#x27;t work as a heuristic. &quot;Don&#x27;t pay attention to press releases&quot; does, but it wouldn&#x27;t have caught this. Can you suggest a heuristic that would have rejected this without requiring prior background knowledge or significant effort, and would have a low false positive rate?<p>Basically, even if this is bad science, it looks superficially like good science. &quot;HN users paying attention to obviously bad science&quot; seems like a substantially different problem from &quot;HN users paying attention to superficially good science that happens to be bad&quot;.