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jrflowersyesterday at 10:38 PM1 replyview on HN

>Ray Peat

>Seems bizarre to just not have a page on a subject discussed every day on Twitter.

The idea that if a guy writes “avocados cause cancer and honey cures it” he should be put in the encyclopedia if it gets enough retweets is the organizing principle behind grokipedia. It would be much more bizarre to expect a serious encyclopedia to work the same way for no good reason.


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pie_flavoryesterday at 10:47 PM

Other, much dumber nutrition cranks like Anthony William and Gary Null have Wikipedia pages. Fundamentally, the purpose of an encyclopedia is to be the place that you go to when you hear a concept and want to look up what it is.

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