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Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Personal blog · kirkegaard.substack.comsciencephilosophy
Emil O. W. Kirkegaard writes Just Emil Kirkegaard Things, a personal blog at kirkegaard.substack.com about science and philosophy. Since 2022, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this Substack's posts on Wikipedia deletionism, long Covid, and national intelligence and economic growth, usually as sources or examples in threads on those topics.
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.
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What Hacker News says?
https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/political-deletionism-at-w...
Comment linking /p/political-deletionism-at-wikipedia
on “Deletionpedia: Rescuing articles from Wikipedia's deletionism”Submitted The Mensa Fallacy as a story · 41 points
HN discussionIt is real in that virus infections can have long-term consequences. This is not new and has been known for a long time, and this of course can happen with COVID too. It is not real insofar one assumes COVID is special or particularly more dangerous in this regard. It isn’t, except for temporary loss of smell and reduced aerobic capacity. Also see https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/how-unreal-is-long-covid
Comment linking /p/how-unreal-is-long-covid
on “Denmark not offering second Covid booster shot to healthy adults under 50”Submitted Why can't we prevent or cure hangovers? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBehold, exactly what you are talking about: https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/positively-motivated-to-he...
Comment linking /p/positively-motivated-to-help-all?s=r
on “Twitter bans ads that contradict science on climate change”Submitted Should you get off Twitbookgram? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSummarized by the authors at https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/national-intelligence-real... and https://georgefrancis.substack.com/p/national-iq-is-the-best... .
Comment linking /p/national-intelligence-really-is-the
on “National Intelligence and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Update”
