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comment by goobster
goobster  ·  1286 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: DRASTIC: Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19

This site/project makes my skin crawl... like the Maricopa County recount shenanigans put on by Cyber Ninjas... this just feels like a group of internet keyboard warriors linking out to articles of various provenance, trying to find ... what?

I get worried when people dig into a vast trove of "data" without clear motive, method, or motivation, and are simply "looking for something interesting".

They do link out to a few reputable scientific articles. But they make no commentary on why the article is relevant to their project, or what their takeaway is. Any non-scientist reading scientific articles can come up with a whole range of takeaways, simply because they don't understand the basic science underneath the article that the author assumes the reader possesses.

This seems like a great site for conspiracy theorists to mine, and of little use to real human beings.