http://ccdb5fs.kek.jp/cgi-bin/img/allpdf?199007095.

According to Poreto Principle i expect this law to work in 80% of cases. :)

sounds like https://xkcd.com/955/ :)

30 minutes seems to be close to the upper bound of someone linking to Betteridge. It's impressive that this thread lasted almost 40.

Obviously does not work:

"Who will win the US presidential election?"

"No."

Can we just auto-add a link to Betteridge Law to all topics ending with question mark?

People are not downvoting the comment because they believe that the headline is not clickbait, and the article is not nonsense. They are downvoting because the comment adds nothing that has not already been discussed many times already in other contexts. Headlines are often click-baity, now let's move on please.

To derail the discussion even further:

1.)The given audience in any form is always changing. He might have given new information to someone who hasn't seen it before(young,new english speaker, ect)

2.)We are talking about SCIENCE and whats great about SCIENCE is that to do it well requires SKEPTICISM. The article itself even says that the results haven't been confirmed by a different specialized lab. I would be floored if we discovered another fundamental force but like all things we should ANALYZE all points of a subject.

> 2.)We are talking about SCIENCE and whats great about SCIENCE is that to do it well requires SKEPTICISM. The article itself even says that the results haven't been confirmed by a different specialized lab. I would be floored if we discovered another fundamental force but like all things we should ANALYZE all points of a subject.

I think you're being too generous with regard to the OP's comment. That comment appeared to be mostly a throw-away attempt to reference Bettridge's law, rather than offering any substantiate thoughts on the potential discovery or its likelihood of being a spurious result.

Bringing up the Betteridge thing became a cliché years ago. It was interesting when pg originally posted it, quickly became tedious, and now is merely mechanical. It's also not as true as people think.

Yes there are bad titles out there, though this article's is light years from the worst. That is no reason to bog HN threads down with predictable gunk. Anything predictable is boring.

i hypothesize that the votes aren't about right-ness or wrong-ness, rather it may be more akin to "yes, we know, we've seen the betteridge link in every other post". it's also not clear that the article is "clickbait nonsense".