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Neuroskeptic is a personal blog at neuroskeptic.blogspot.com about science. Since 2009, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “On the placebo effect and decaffeinated coffee”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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41mentions?
15HN people?
2009–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 24 in 2012

...has moved to http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/

Most-linked posts?

  1. On the placebo effect and decaffeinated coffee
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-11-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. staticman2 · 2020-11-03
    Unfortunately the Discover archives don't seem to be working but you should educate yourself on the limits of brain science and show more intellectual humility. This post might be a good place to start: http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2009/02/ethics-of-junk-scie... The author, a neuroscientst writes "More generally, the controversy over human sex differences is a vast one, with a huge amount of evidence to consider…

    Comment linking /2009/02/ethics-of-junk-science.html

    on “The Life of Einstein's First Wife”
  2. DiabloD3 · 2012-01-07

    Submitted The Real Story On That "Antidepressant Surge" as a story · 53 points

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  3. pella · 2011-09-20
    Real vs Placebo Coffee "Caffeine expectancies influence the subjective and behavioral effects of caffeine." http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2009/11/real-vs-placebo-cof...

    Comment linking /2009/11/real-vs-placebo-coffee.html

    on “Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why (2009)”
  4. fogus · 2010-02-08

    Submitted How statistically significant correlations are not always significant as a story · 21 points

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  5. pchivers · 2009-05-07
    I think this blog post (linked from the original article) is more interesting than the article itself: Antidepressants, Placebos and the Failure of Psychiatry http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2009/03/antidepressants-pla...

    Comment linking /2009/03/antidepressants-placebos-and-failure-of.html

    on “Why Antidepressants Don't Live Up to the Hype”
  6. fogus · 2009-10-13

    Submitted Placebos Have Side Effects Too as a story · 19 points

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  7. Kutta · 2011-02-20
    Commentary: http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2011/02/boy-without-cerebel...

    Comment linking /2011/02/boy-without-cerebellumhas-no-cerebellum.html

    on “Boy without cerebellum is learning to walk”
  8. fogus · 2009-09-21

    Submitted Why Do We Sleep? as a story · 18 points

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  9. betelnut · 2012-11-17
    Neuroskeptic has a good response to these articles at http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2012/11/were-probably-not-g... , essentially arguing against Crabtree's thesis for being too speculative.

    Comment linking /2012/11/were-probably-not-getting-dumber.html

    on “Humans slowly but surely losing intellectual & emotional abilities?”
  10. DiabloD3 · 2012-04-30

    Submitted You Are Not "Your Brain" as a story · 16 points

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  11. DiabloD3 · 2012-04-14

    Submitted Fixing Science - Systems and Politics as a story · 15 points

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  12. Serene · 2010-09-05

    Submitted If you're not weird, you're really weird as a story · 5 points

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  13. DiabloD3 · 2012-08-04

    Submitted DSM-V may end up being a failure as a story · 4 points

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  14. DiabloD3 · 2011-11-21

    Submitted Autism: What A Big Prefrontal Cortex You Have as a story · 4 points

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  15. DiabloD3 · 2012-04-11

    Submitted Gay people are smarter according to study as a story · 3 points

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  16. DiabloD3 · 2012-03-01

    Submitted Waffle: Why Most Books Are Too Long as a story · 3 points

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  17. cwan · 2009-11-10

    Submitted On the placebo effect and decaffeinated coffee as a story · 3 points

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  18. DiabloD3 · 2012-04-27

    Submitted Who Invented Autism? as a story · 2 points

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  19. DiabloD3 · 2012-04-15

    Submitted How A Stroke Changed Katherine Sherwood's Art as a story · 2 points

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  20. DiabloD3 · 2012-04-01

    Submitted DSM-V is changing how depression is handled as a story · 2 points

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  21. DiabloD3 · 2012-03-29

    Submitted 3D fMRI Promises Deeper Neuroscience as a story · 2 points

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  22. DiabloD3 · 2012-01-10

    Submitted The Plight of Psychoanalysis? as a story · 2 points

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  23. DiabloD3 · 2011-12-15

    Submitted "Mad Honey" Sex Is A Bad Idea as a story · 2 points

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  24. pier0 · 2011-08-23

    Submitted Is Sleep Brain Defragmentation? as a story · 2 points

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  25. unwantedLetters · 2010-07-10

    Submitted The World Turned Upside Down as a story · 2 points

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  26. DiabloD3 · 2012-11-02

    Submitted Autism Brain Scans Flawed? as a story · 1 points

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  27. kevinalexbrown · 2012-10-10

    Submitted Science: Growing Too Fast? as a story · 1 points

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  28. kevinalexbrown · 2012-08-14

    Submitted On Twitter, It's Beer Before Liquor as a story · 1 points

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  29. kevinalexbrown · 2012-08-08

    Submitted A Case Study in Voodo Genetics as a story · 1 points

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  30. DiabloD3 · 2012-07-18

    Submitted Whole Brain Teaching could be a scam as a story · 1 points

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