Comment by selcuka
4 hours ago
> I feel kinda bad for the writer, because it's a good question: no, curing patients is not a good business model, just like public transit is not a good business model.
Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
Energy123's law of headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark will have an associated comments section mentioning Betteridge's law, despite that law having being empirically falsified.
Selcuk's Law of Generalisations: Any mention of an adage will have an associated comment claiming that it can be falsified by giving at least one counter-example.
To you and your parent, I present:
Nvader's law: Any law you named after yourself is ipso facto much less impressive.
The answer is 'yes' more than 50% of the time according to a few studies. It's not just one counter-example.