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Josiah Zayner
Personal blog · josiahzayner.comsciencehealth
Josiah Zayner writes Science, Art, Beauty, a personal blog at josiahzayner.com about science and health. Since 2019, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “There is little chance CRISPR will ever be widely used to directly treat disease”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on DIY biology, including a DIY COVID-19 vaccine project, a post arguing CRISPR is dead as a direct disease treatment, and a post on FDA regulation. The comments only cite or link these posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A Blog About Art, Science and Beauty
Most-linked posts?
- There is little chance CRISPR will ever be widely used to directly treat disease3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-10-10
- I Made a Covid-19 Vaccine in My Kitchen and It Worked – Science Still Sucks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-26
What Hacker News says?
So I guess Josiah Zayner has to pick up on this now and do a DIY Moderna COVID vaccine video. He already did a DIY vaccine video with full open source documentation on how to do it yourself. http://www.josiahzayner.com/2020/12/i-made-covid-19-vaccine-...
Comment linking /2020/12/i-made-covid-19-vaccine-in-my-kitchen.html
on “Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]”Submitted All my friends are dying as a story · 93 points
HN discussionThis should be one of the big takeaways from Covid-19, but I sadly think that it won't be because people don't fully understand the waste and danger of the way the FDA does things. Also, their drug regulations don't take into consideration rational decision theory and instead are overly focused on traditional hypothesis testing. Also, I'd suggest reading the following about how bad regulation kills people: http://ww…
Comment linking /2020/04/all-my-friends-are-dying.html
on “How Bad Antitrust Enforcers Kill People”Submitted There is little chance CRISPR will ever be widely used to directly treat disease as a story · 67 points
HN discussionWeb Page Blocked Access to the web page you were trying to visit has been blocked in accordance with company policy. Please contact your system administrator if you believe this is in error. User: 10.116.150.177 URL: http://www.josiahzayner.com/2020/10/crispr-is-dead.html Category: malware If you feel this page has been incorrectly blocked, you may click Continue to proceed to the page. However, this action will be…
Comment linking /2020/10/crispr-is-dead.html
on “There is little chance CRISPR will ever be widely used to directly treat disease”Submitted I Made a Covid-19 Vaccine in My Kitchen and It Worked – Science Still Sucks as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted “I Made a Covid-19 Vaccine in My Kitchen and It Worked – Science Still Sucks” as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crispr Is Dead as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cultured Meat Will Not Be Realistic Anytime Soon: Numbers Behind the Hype (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion