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fn-motelast Tuesday at 10:17 PM1 replyview on HN

> Franklin's name is a link to a paywalled Medium article.

I'm frustrated that in 2025, I am reading a dismissal of Franklin's contributions because someone has never heard of her and clicks on a link to Medium article to draw their conclusions. Wikipedia would be better. The 1950's was so long ago that there are (gasp) actual paper books on this history of the discovery of the double helix.


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Jenssonlast Tuesday at 11:17 PM

They followed the provided link, blame the person who posted the link not the person who says the link wasn't helpful.

If you try to back up your points with citations then those citations should help strengthen your case, you might still be right even if you cite bad articles but its still right to criticize bad citations.