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Bartram’s Folly
Personal blog · bartram.substack.comhealthscience
Bartram’s Folly is a personal blog at bartram.substack.com about health and science. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
12mentions?
5HN people?
2021–2023first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on COVID-19 origins, vaccine mortality and excess deaths. HN commenters link it when arguing about vaccine safety data, but none of the comments judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
things that people don't seem to be talking about.
What Hacker News says?
Fine, here are sources. The devil is in the details. That's a graph of deaths that are COVID positive at or shortly before death. I said "fatality rates" without that qualification. Hopefully we both agree that vaccines are useless if they just change cause of death without reducing actual mortality rates. It's usually better to use UK data than US. US/CDC data is rather useless and corrupted (e.g. they like to clas…
Comment linking /p/update-on-the-failure-of-the-vaccines
on “Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis”> For overall mortality, with 74,193 participants and 61 deaths (mRNA:31; placebo:30) 31 deaths with mRNA and 30 deaths with placebo with over 74K people in the trial to me means that mRNA carries zero risk. In a sample size that large, 1 additional death means essentially zero correlation. > https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/18/silent-crisis-so ... Article is subscribe-walled. Not subbing. > Dailysceptic I'm…
Comment linking /p/deaths-by-vaccination-status-
on “Pre-exposure to mRNA-LNP inhibits adaptive immune responses in mice”OK. Deaths in the RCTs: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4072489 [edit: fixed typo in link] "To examine the possible non-specific effects (NSEs) of the novel COVID-19 vaccines, we reviewed the randomised control trials (RCTs) of mRNA and adenovirus-vector COVID-19 vaccines ... For overall mortality, with 74,193 participants and 61 deaths (mRNA:31; placebo:30), the relative risk (RR) for the two mR…
Comment linking /p/deaths-by-vaccination-status-for
on “Pre-exposure to mRNA-LNP inhibits adaptive immune responses in mice”Traveling today so don't have easy access to my bookmarks with that data (is heavily buried in UK govt websites) but here's an analysis of the excess death data that also shows ambulance call outs jump permanently and significantly in April 2021 https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/massive-increases-in-exc... A lot of it is due cardiac reasons. You can also look at when excess death went up in younger age ranges that…
Comment linking /p/deaths-by-vaccination-status-for
on “Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only tip of the iceberg”Firstly, as others pointed out, your numbers are wrong so your one sentence explanation is just misinformation. The number of deaths in the trial arms were about the same, actually a bit higher in the vaccine arm. The official explanation for this is that COVID is not deadly enough to show up in a trial population of 'only' ~60-70,000 participants especially because the trials failed to recruit many over 80 year old…
Comment linking /p/the-impact-of-time-on-non-covid-deaths
on “I was deceived about Covid vaccine safety”"There are ton of garbage science around. That makes me even less confident about things that are not even science." Your argument, or world view, is that you can determine what's true by looking at who scientists trust and the peer reviews of these scientists. I've just named a man who is by universal academic consensus a scientist, but who - as you're aware - produces garbage science without any pushback. In fact,…
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on “Facts don’t change our minds (2018)”It's not that clear unfortunately. Consider that all-cause death rate is a lot higher in the under-40s vaccinated than the under-40s unvaccinated (UK recently released stats on this): https://bartram.substack.com/p/the-impact-of-time-on-non-cov... That simply shouldn't be happening. The death rate gets 4x higher over last summer, it's an enormous difference. Even if you think there's some statistical or other proble…
Comment linking /p/the-impact-of-time-on-non-covid-deaths
on “In rare cases, coronavirus vaccines may cause Long Covid–like symptoms”Here you go - maybe you can reconsider your priors for classifying things as baloney now? Gov and media put a lot of effort into breaking our intuitions about their trustworthiness. Your gut reaction is the one we're trained to have. CDC changed their definition of vaccine and vaccination: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25411126... > Before the change, the definition for “vaccination” read, “the…
Comment linking /p/even-more-negative-vaccine-efficiency
on “Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them”Sadly there is lots of evidence that vaccines can kill people. Obviously, there's the primary reports from people saying "the vaccine killed someone I know" and the medical experts denying everything, e.g this 29 year old man: e.g. https://openvaers.com/covid-data/covid-reports/2251260 "On 06-Feb-2022, the patient received the 3rd vaccination with this vaccine. Pyrexia of 39 degrees Celsius developed. The patient to…
Comment linking /p/increased-deaths-in-england-for-the?s=r
on “Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick concerning”"They absolutely are effective at reducing the risk of death or serious illness" Actually, possibly not :( This breaks down into two separate questions: 1. Are they effective at reducing risk of death / serious illness now. 2. Were they so in the past? To answer these we can't rely on any scientific gold standards despite the importance of the questions, because the trials showed no impact on death or actually the P…
Comment linking /p/increased-deaths-in-england-for-the?s=r
on “Dutch Airline Pilots Association blocks mandated vaccinations for new pilots”If it’s been happening since 1930s why did mainstream media just start talking about it recently? Because what the Covid vaxx has done is unprecedented: https://bartram.substack.com/p/enough-about-mortality-what-a... Got to have an explanation before those crazy antivaxxers present their publicly available statistical data.
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on “Global sperm counts are falling. This scientist believes she knows why”
