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Jeremy Duns
Personal blog · jeremy-duns.com/blogwritingculture
Jeremy Duns's personal blog at jeremy-duns.com covers writing and culture. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-15, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on journalist Johann Hari, covering his fabrications, accuracy problems and post-apology work, when discussing Hari's articles on drugs and other topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Official website of Jeremy Duns, author of the Paul Dark novels, non-fiction Dead Drop and more.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/2014/9/7/kdgwxcbsned1rknh0h3zdvqrebxa3x3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-01-20
What Hacker News says?
Maybe he deserves a second chance, but he doesn't seem to have changed his ways much. http://www.jeremy-duns.com/blog/2014/9/7/kdgwxcbsned1rknh0h3... The last section, "Update", is of particular interest to you, as it relates directly to the audio transcripts from Chasing the Scream.
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on “This bakery will hire anyone”Submitted The author who cyber-stalked me as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThings are significantly more complicated with Hari than "mistake, apology, done". This article recaps the problems and even documents severe problems in his post-apology work. http://www.jeremy-duns.com/blog/2014/9/7/kdgwxcbsned1rknh0h3...
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on “This bakery will hire anyone”It's worth noting that this article is by Johann Hari, who has a long history of telling compelling but untrue stories. Most recently about depression: https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2018/jan/... EDIT and the backstory: http://www.jeremy-duns.com/blog/2014/9/7/kdgwxcbsned1rknh0h3... He mentions Rat Park, which isn't as clear-cut as he makes out: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/25/against-rat-p…
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on “The drug debate in Japan (2018)”I'm against permanently "flipping the bozo bit" on any source, and yes, the grandparent post's pure-shunning against-the-person is both unhelpful and corrosive. But there's a case to be made that the extent of Hari's prior dramatic fabrications still hasn't been recognized, and that he still tends to embellish details in more recent work: http://www.jeremy-duns.com/blog/2014/9/7/kdgwxcbsned1rknh0h3... (For me, a com…
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on “Johann Hari on the War on Drugs”Compelling story. Would be a lot easier to follow if author were clearer on relative dates. (How long after the 1939 threat was the first bust? The later SF bust? The final hospitalization?) Note the author, Johann Hari, has had some issues with accuracy and attribution in the past, and some argue that even his recent work is sloppy with quotes for dramatic purposes ( http://www.jeremy-duns.com/blog/2014/9/7/kdgwxcb…
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on “Billie Holiday and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics’ Early Fight for Survival”
