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James Heathers
Personal blog · jamesheathers.medium.comsciencehealth
James Heathers's personal blog at jamesheathers.medium.com covers science and health. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this to explain the "in mice" caveat, a running joke about medical research headlines that only report results from animal studies. Commenters use it as a shorthand reference, not as praise.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /in-mice-explained-77b61b5982184 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-08-18
What Hacker News says?
> By now this has become a trope. "Researchers develop new treatment for {UNTREATED_DISEASE}" ... in mice. And a twitter account: https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice https://jamesheathers.medium.com/in-mice-explained-77b61b598...
Comment linking /in-mice-explained-77b61b598218
on “Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging”Submitted The Invisible Plague as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Subsequent in vivo testing on mice showed the DNA-origami traps were capable of targeting individual virions ... in mice. Sorry, that's an in-joke: https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice https://jamesheathers.medium.com/in-mice-explained-77b61b598...
Comment linking /in-mice-explained-77b61b598218
on “Programmable icosahedral shell system for virus trapping”... in mice. [0] [0] https://jamesheathers.medium.com/in-mice-explained-77b61b598...
Comment linking /in-mice-explained-77b61b598218
on “One DNA letter can trigger complete sex reversal”IN MICE. (To be fair, also IN SOME OTHER BETTER MICE). https://jamesheathers.medium.com/in-mice-explained-77b61b598... (mostly a joke, but I'd be in favor of adding context to the HN headline if possible)
Comment linking /in-mice-explained-77b61b598218
on “Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer”
