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Mathew Crawford
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Mathew Crawford writes Rounding the Earth Newsletter, a personal blog at roundingtheearth.substack.com about science and health. Since 2021, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Defining Away Vaccine Safety Signals”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Mathew Crawford's Substack posts on COVID vaccines, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, VAERS and CDC figures, mostly as sources. Two commenters point readers to them as worth a look.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Defining Away Vaccine Safety Signals4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-07-28
What Hacker News says?
> Could some vaccines drive the evolution of more virulent pathogens? Conventional wisdom is that natural selection will remove highly lethal pathogens if host death greatly reduces transmission. Vaccines that keep hosts alive but still allow transmission could thus allow very virulent strains to circulate in a population. [1] The covid vaccine is just that - limits symptoms but still allows transmission. > In an un…
Comment linking /p/variant-roulette-evolution-and-immunity
on “YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content”Submitted Defining Away Vaccine Safety Signals 5: The DMED “Glitch” Revealed? as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> Could some vaccines drive the evolution of more virulent pathogens? Conventional wisdom is that natural selection will remove highly lethal pathogens if host death greatly reduces transmission. Vaccines that keep hosts alive but still allow transmission could thus allow very virulent strains to circulate in a population. [1] The covid vaccine is just that - limits symptoms but still allows transmission. > In an un…
Comment linking /p/variant-roulette-evolution-and-immunity
on “YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content”Submitted Defining Away Vaccine Safety Signals as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHey mate for what it's worth and you might say not much and may be right, the argument I ear goes as follow: the trials showing the ineffectiveness of HCQ use protocols that are inconsistent with the protocols the advocate of HCQ propose. To my understanding, the proponents tend to say that HCQ is effective when administered as soon as first symptoms (day 0 to 3 I believe). There are also dosage issues and combinati…
Comment linking /p/how-to-rig-research-the-who-edition-105
on “Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection”Submitted Defining Away Vaccine Safety Signals as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRegarding safety, actually no. The measures in place to capture safety data are virtualy useless, depends on self reporting, not widely known etc.. Also https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/defining-away-vaccin... Not addressing concerns of people who have suffered adverse effects, does not inspire confidence either.. https://www.c19vaxreactions.com/uploads/1/3/7/7/137732232/le...
Comment linking /p/defining-away-vaccine-safety-signals
on “Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices”And is government currently competent in even knowing what proper documentation looks like? Waiting for anyone competent to confirm or correct this person re: CDC's potentially wholly flawed math: https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/defining-away-vaccin...
Comment linking /p/defining-away-vaccine-safety-signals
on “Pfizer says 2021 Covid-19 vaccine sales to top $33.5 bln, sees need for boosters”A counter with many citations & analysis for those who like to research both sides of the story: https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/the-meta-analytical-...
Comment linking /p/the-meta-analytical-fixers-an-ivermectin
on “Is Ivermectin for Covid-19 Based on Fraudulent Research?”>No, I'm putting my faith in the CDC and VAERS About VAERS this might be interesting... https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/defining-away-vaccin... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IAzK4a58a7M4ajHKOpqe-9KD9Pd...
Comment linking /p/defining-away-vaccine-safety-signals
on “SARS-CoV-2 Lambda variant exhibits higher infectivity and immune resistance”All this, while the essential systems to capture vaccine safety signal appear to be apparently broken and based on "voluntary reporting", and the world does not give a single fuck about it... https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/defining-away-vaccin... https://tinyurl.com/CovidvFluReport
Comment linking /p/defining-away-vaccine-safety-signals/comments
on “Ignoring WHO call, major nations stick to vaccine booster plans”Simply because they had a stockpile of 29 million doses they were sitting on in early April that wasn't actually making it to people with pre-covid problems it was used to treat. By June this was up to 63 million doses. I'm looking for a source that isn't a video. [0]: https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/the-chloroquine-wars...
Comment linking /p/the-chloroquine-wars-part-xii
on “Hydroxychloroquine could have caused 17,000 deaths during Covid”> 1 in 250,000 get blood clots after the vaccine. Were does this number come from? If it is from VAERS, this number should be multiplied by 100, to offset the under reporting, (only 1% of the actual events are reported, but even that is speculation, and truth is, we have no real idea) So 1 in 2500. And this is just one AEFI, blood clots. Also, in addition to keeping VAERS powerless to capture high quality data, thin…
Comment linking /p/defining-away-vaccine-safety-signals
on “Most people infected in Provincetown Covid outbreak were vaccinated, CDC shows”> I have for now only directly checked the data from the USA VAERS system These links might be of interest regarding the VAERS system. https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/defining-away-vaccin... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IAzK4a58a7M4ajHKOpqe-9KD9Pd... Also, some interviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mxqC9SiRh8 And this is the site that is mentioned in the video https://www.c19vaxreactions.com/ Also…
Comment linking /p/defining-away-vaccine-safety-signals
on “Ask HN: Finding data about vaccine vs. infection risks, and making sense of it”Well, when antimalarial drugs are suddenly limited in distribution because it might be usable against an engineered bioweapon... it means transmission is increased. If HCQ went from being an over-the-counter medicine in a malaria zone like Vietnam to a more limited distribution, this is one of the things one would expect to happen. [0]: https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/vietnams-tale-of-cov...
Comment linking /p/vietnams-tale-of-covid-19-medicine?utm_source=publication-search
on “Vaccines mean malaria deaths should be falling – not rising”