I'm not one to usually complain about downvotes, but this is ridiculous. The HN hivemind at its most absurd.
This person is literally working in the research sector involved, giving their opinion (it's not a nice opinion, but it is presumably informed), and getting downvoted because the HN crowd doesn't like it.
EDIT: At the time I wrote this comment the parent comment and the root comment were both far into the negatives with downvotes.
Agreed, people seem to be downvoting because they hope he/she's wrong rather than to post a reply explaining their reasoning. I see nothing wrong with the root comment and just upvoted it to give it more attention.
I agree with you that the down voting is silly, as s/he makes some good points, but suspect the down voting was in reaction to the tone of the comment. If one was holding a lab meeting and a comment arose in that tone, one could image other lab member getting defensive.
tl;dr The comment would have been more effective without the passion of fail'hard' and other language.
This person is literally working in the research sector involved, giving their opinion (it's not a nice opinion, but it is presumably informed), and getting downvoted because the HN crowd doesn't like it.
EDIT: At the time I wrote this comment the parent comment and the root comment were both far into the negatives with downvotes.