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F. Perry Wilson
Personal blog · methodsman.com/bloghealthscience
F. Perry Wilson's personal blog at methodsman.com covers health and science. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on COVID-19 statistics and trial evidence, such as case fatality versus infection fatality rate and a review of every hydroxychloroquine RCT. Commenters cite them as sources.
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.
Yale physician F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE — director of CTRA, host of the Wellness, Actually podcast, and author of How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't.
What Hacker News says?
CFR vs IFR https://www.methodsman.com/blog/case-fatality-rate-vs-infect... What I can tell you is that the CDC now provides an “infection fatality rate” parameter in it’s planning scenarios. They range the IFR from 0.5% in their best-case scenario to 0.8% in the worst-case scenario. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena... https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20201030/covid-19-infection-... A new s…
Comment linking /blog/case-fatality-rate-vs-infection-fatality-rate-in-covid-19
on “As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered, survey finds”Submitted Machine learning of neural representations of emotion identifies suicidal youth as a story · 103 points
HN discussion> Between the intentional suppression of this and HCQ, While some in the media may have been all to happy to pile on the HCQ fans, I know of no evidence that HCQ works to treat COVID [0]. [0] https://www.methodsman.com/blog/every-hcq-rct-for-covid-19
Comment linking /blog/every-hcq-rct-for-covid-19
on “The mechanisms of action of Ivermectin against SARS-CoV-2”Submitted Sudden Death During Triathlons: Risks Higher Than Expected as a story · 2 points
HN discussion