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Josh Guetzkow

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Josh Guetzkow writes Research Rebel, a personal blog at jackanapes.substack.com about health and science. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “CDC Releases Vaers Safety Monitoring Analyses for Covid Vaccines”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-21, and you can follow it by feed.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2022–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2022

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

Why HN links it

Josh Guetzkow's Substack posts on COVID-19 vaccine trial safety reporting and CDC long COVID guidance. Commenters cite them as support for their own points, without judging the writing directly.

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.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Most-linked posts?

  1. CDC Releases Vaers Safety Monitoring Analyses for Covid Vaccines
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here's a short list of some aspects of the vaccine trials that most people would find surprising and out of step with how safety is described: 1. More people in the vaccinated arm died than in the unvaccinated arm. Effectiveness against death = negative. This was ignored because, they said, the difference was too small to be statistically significant. That's not a logical way to use the concept of statistical signif…

    Comment linking /p/is-subject-12312982-the-key-to-proving?s=r

    on “Trends in menstrual bleeding changes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination”
  2. Submitted Pfizer vaccine trial was not blinded as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://jackanapes.substack.com/p/cdc-finally-released-its-v... It’s more amazing how due to cognitive dissonance people deny something obvious.

    Comment linking /p/cdc-finally-released-its-vaers-safety

    on “Long Covid: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations”
  4. Submitted Stillbirths, Miscarriages and Abortions in Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated Women as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted CDC Releases Vaers Safety Monitoring Analyses for Covid Vaccines as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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