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Michael Weissman
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Michael Weissman writes Michael’s Substack (Free), a personal blog at michaelweissman.substack.com about science and data. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “An Inconvenient Probability v5.11 (2024)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only a bare link in a COVID-origins thread, offered as an "alternative perspective". The posts cover the argument that the pandemic probably started in a lab.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My personal Substack.
Most-linked posts?
- An Inconvenient Probability v5.11 (2024)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-03
What Hacker News says?
And here is the alternative perspective https://michaelweissman.substack.com/p/an-inconvenient-proba...
Comment linking /p/an-inconvenient-probability-v57
on “Why the pandemic probably started in a lab, in 5 key points”Submitted A robust Bayesian look at Covid origins as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Inconvenient Probability v5.11 (2024) as a story · 1 points
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