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Nick Brown
Personal blog · steamtraen.blogspot.comsciencedata
Nick Brown's personal blog at steamtraen.blogspot.com covers science and data. Since 2018, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “A Bug and a Dilemma”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on problems in published research: a 2018 post that a Cornell professor's publication article quotes, and a post on problems with the ivermectin study data and methodology.
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.
The adventures of a self-appointed data police cadet
Most-linked posts?
- A Bug and a Dilemma2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-12
- /2021/07/Some-problems-with-the-data-from-a-Covid-study.html?m=12 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-25
What Hacker News says?
ISTM perhaps the link should be to the blog post [0] from which TFA liberally quotes? At the very least, the references to different colors of text will make more sense. Perhaps there's something "ironic" about that... [0] http://steamtraen.blogspot.com/2018/04/some-instances-of-app...
Comment linking /2018/04/some-instances-of-apparent-duplicate.html
on “A Cornell professor’s trick for getting 1700 peer reviewed publications”Submitted A Bug and a Dilemma as a story · 11 points
HN discussionYour language suggests that you’ve already decided how you would like to believe, and your rebuttal to the OP fails to move past the first couple paragraphs of the guardian article or appreciate the other sources that are linked in the article, which elaborate on the concerns with the paper’s methodology and data. This additional analysis on the data [0] to me appears to be of significant concern to the validity of…
Comment linking /2021/07/Some-problems-with-the-data-from-a-Covid-study.html?m=1
on “Major study of Ivermectin finds 'no effect whatsoever'”Submitted Some problems in the dataset of a large study of Ivermectin for Covid-19 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis related? https://steamtraen.blogspot.com/2021/07/Some-problems-with-t...
Comment linking /2021/07/Some-problems-with-the-data-from-a-Covid-study.html?m=1
on “Large Ivermectin Study Retracted”Submitted He compared two identical numbers. The effect size he obtained will shock you as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Bug and a Dilemma as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some issues in a recent gaming research article: Etindele Sosso et al. (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An update on our examination of the research of Dr. Nicolas Guéguen as a story · 1 points
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