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Joseph Everett

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Joseph Everett's personal blog at josepheverettwil.substack.com covers health and science. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-29, and you can follow it by feed.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2023–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link these posts on lab-grown meat and on how fasting changes the body, citing them as support for their own points. The comments do not judge the writing itself.

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.

Getting to the bottom of things, even if it hurts some feelings.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Lab grown meats are a boondoggle and will never happen at scale. https://josepheverettwil.substack.com/p/lab-meat-is-18-trill...

    Comment linking /p/lab-meat-is-18-trillion-dollar-bullshit

    on “Georgia Tech, Meta create open dataset to advance solutions for carbon capture”
  2. Submitted Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score” as a story · 296 points

    HN discussion
  3. Any kind of caloric restriction lowers it temporarily. There is some evidence that testosterone levels can be even higher after the fasting https://josepheverettwil.substack.com/p/how-fasting-changes-...

    Comment linking /p/how-fasting-changes-testosterone

    on “Intermittent fasting more effective than calorie restriction”

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