If anything the extremist view is that publishing secret details about a vaccine should be a crime. The only one who benefits from not publishing them is the vaccine company in expense of everyone else.
Regarding "extremist absolutist views", would you consider entities like the FSF, GNU, and wikileaks to be extremist and absolutist?
As for "being pedantic about a word", I would say that it is not just penancy but rather a complaint about the presentation by the Reuters, in the style of "the evil russian hackers stole vaccine secrets" vs "the heroic security experts published vaccine secrets to the world".
If you have an issue with what these users posted, wouldn't it be better to directly respond to them as to why you disagree rather than dismiss them as extremist lunatics?
Regarding "extremist absolutist views", would you consider entities like the FSF, GNU, and wikileaks to be extremist and absolutist?
As for "being pedantic about a word", I would say that it is not just penancy but rather a complaint about the presentation by the Reuters, in the style of "the evil russian hackers stole vaccine secrets" vs "the heroic security experts published vaccine secrets to the world".
If you have an issue with what these users posted, wouldn't it be better to directly respond to them as to why you disagree rather than dismiss them as extremist lunatics?