like most here I don't particularly agree with the main premise of the piece (objectivity taking a sideline to how something might affect a population), but I am a little saddened if not scared at how vitriolic some of the comments are here. there are many vulnerable populations in the world that might negatively be impacted by publications, to label even the thought of that as a factor in ethics as evil makes me uncomfortable
People see where this is going: treating facts as violence.
If nothing else, HN commenters are all pretty strongly for a culture of free speech, so yeah, they're gonna hate things that try to suppress scientific understanding in order to advance ideological goals. That's a thing worthy of hatred.
