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Joel Smalley
Personal blog · metatron.substack.comhealthdata
Joel Smalley writes Dead Man Talking, a personal blog at metatron.substack.com about health and data. Since 2022, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Joel Smalley's Substack analysing pandemic-era COVID vaccine and mortality statistics, including Alberta and Australian data. HN commenters cite it when questioning official figures.
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.
Independent data analysis and commentary on public health, economics, and Government policies.
Most-linked posts?
- /p/alberta-just-inadvertently-confessed2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-26
What Hacker News says?
I would enjoy an explanation of the rise and timing of excess “all cause” mortality in Australia. I’m happy not to believe this website, but I need more than “shut up, conspiracy theorist” to get there. https://metatron.substack.com/p/australia-begins-to-reap-wha...
Comment linking /p/australia-begins-to-reap-what-it?s=r
on “Viruses that were on hiatus during Covid are back, behaving in unexpected ways”Submitted Excess death from around the world due to Covid as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThe “unvaccinated hospitalisations” statistic is often somewhat fraudulent it seems. Please see this example here: https://metatron.substack.com/p/alberta-just-inadvertently-c... It is caused by three factors primarily: (1) extreme asymmetric testing rates between the two groups of all patients; (2) inclusion of <14 day or even <21 day post-vaccination into the “unvaccinated” column; and (3) in some cases even the “…
Comment linking /p/alberta-just-inadvertently-confessed
on “Quebec bans unvaccinated from buying groceries at Walmart, Costco”Submitted The Definitive Guide to Covid and Covid Vaccine Deaths as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot just numbers, but numbers we can trust. I've been really impressed with how much data my province (Alberta) has made available, but now, I'm wondering. They recently had "technical difficulties", and the numbers changed from showing that double-vaxxed people were the most at-risk for omicron, to showing that unvaxxed people are. https://twitter.com/AB_CovidFacts/status/1486112498977685506 Also disturbing is that…
Comment linking /p/alberta-just-inadvertently-confessed
on “Fake vaccine cards are everywhere. It’s a public health nightmare”Submitted Palau – A Covid Success Story as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBad Cattitude. https://boriquagato.substack.com/ Dead Man Talking. https://metatron.substack.com/ PANDA Uncut. https://pandauncut.substack.com/ Some data driven sanity in the last 3 years.
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