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Alexandros Marinos
Personal blog · doyourownresearch.substack.comsciencehealth
Alexandros Marinos writes Do Your Own Research, a personal blog at doyourownresearch.substack.com about science and health. Since 2021, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “A Conflict of Blurred Visions: Response to Scott Alexander on Ivermectin”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Alexandros Marinos's posts as a counterpoint in ivermectin debates, and as a starting point for learning about the drug. Most comments cite them without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Conversations questioning our current sanity level as a species.
Most-linked posts?
- A Conflict of Blurred Visions: Response to Scott Alexander on Ivermectin4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-12-03
What Hacker News says?
> A lot of it is just straight-up fraud. Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz has documented this in some detail. Alexandros Marinos provides a counterpoint [1] > Reading the article, I was surprised (but not really) by the central role Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz (henceforth GidMK as is his much shorter Twitter handle) had played in the analysis. The man has a way to apparate wherever a person of influence takes a position on ivermec…
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on “Study findings do not support the use of ivermectin for patients with Covid-19”Submitted Scott Alexander's correction on ivermectin and its meaning for the rationalists as a story · 81 points
HN discussionAnd a response to the OP: "A Conflict of Blurred Visions A response on ivermectin to one of my heroes, Scott Alexander" https://doyourownresearch.substack.com/p/a-conflict-of-blurr...
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on “Highlights from the Comments on "Ivermectin - much more than you wanted to know"”Submitted A Conflict of Blurred Visions: Response to Scott Alexander on Ivermectin as a story · 9 points
HN discussion>> Ivermectin beats all these novel drugs > No, it really, really doesn't. Ivermectin: Much Less Than You Needed To Know https://doyourownresearch.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-les...
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on “Covid drug drives viral mutations – and now some want to halt its use”Submitted Potemkin Argument Part I: Scott Alexander caricatured work of honest scientists as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnd a response to the OP: "A Conflict of Blurred Visions A response on ivermectin to one of my heroes, Scott Alexander" https://doyourownresearch.substack.com/p/a-conflict-of-blurr...
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on “Higlights from the Comments on Ivermectin”Submitted The Remdesivir Riddle as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWell, - do you trust this kind of reporting ? https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/gunshot-... Here is also a good beginning to learn about Ivermectin: https://doyourownresearch.substack.com/p/a-conflict-of-blurr... Astral Codex Ten has lost all credibility.
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on ““data shows experimental substances don’t prevent infection and transmission””Submitted Deconstructing Evidence-Based Medicine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Together trial: Impossible numbers and how “independent” monitoring failed us as a story · 1 points
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