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Andrea Love
Personal blog · news.immunologic.orghealthscience
Andrea Love writes ImmunoLogic, a personal blog at news.immunologic.org about health and science. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Andrea Love's Substack posts on organic food and pesticides, including a defence of glyphosate. Commenters cite them as support for skeptical views on organic produce.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Immunity to misinformation starts here: the facts, the fiction, and the fraud around science and health topics. Click to read Dr. Andrea Love | ImmunoLogic,
Most-linked posts?
- Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-02
- Glyphosate: A low toxicity herbicide is the target of a disinformation campaign2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-11
What Hacker News says?
Very obvious and disingenuous plant. Here's her bad-faith defense of glyphosate: https://news.immunologic.org/p/glyphosate-a-low-toxicity-her... Which contains gems like: >Acetic acid is used at 20% concentration in vinegar-based organic herbicides. The acute oral LD50 of 20% acetic acid is 3,310 mg/kg. That means acetic acid is 1.7 times more toxic than glyphosate. >So, that same 70 kg person would only need to ing…
Comment linking /p/glyphosate-a-low-toxicity-herbicide
on “Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free”Submitted Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free as a story · 20 points
HN discussionPeople are downvoting you, but you’re right: https://news.immunologic.org/p/organic-foods-are-not-healthi... Organic is marketing. Organic produce is more profitable.
Comment linking /p/organic-foods-are-not-healthieror
on “EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices”Submitted Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Glyphosate: A low toxicity herbicide is the target of a disinformation campaign as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Covid-19 vaccines don't suppress your immune system–here's the science as a story · 2 points
HN discussion