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Heather Heying
Personal blog · naturalselections.substack.comscienceculture
Heather Heying writes Natural Selections, a personal blog at naturalselections.substack.com about science and culture. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite this Substack by Heather Heying in a debate about COVID measures in Canada, linking a story about a child's suicide as an example. The comment does not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
If it evolved, it's fair game.
What Hacker News says?
> > Canada has some of the harshest (and most ridiculous) covid measures in the world > And we have some of the lowest death rates in the world. Should we just condemn the vulnerable people to death because freedom is more important? Should we continue to allow children to die from suicide in favour of the mandates? (ex. https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/milas-story ) I think you'll find that most people unde…
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