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Norman Fenton and Martin Neil
Personal blog · wherearethenumbers.substack.comdatascience
Norman Fenton and Martin Neil's personal blog at wherearethenumbers.substack.com covers data and science. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, 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 by Norman Fenton and Martin Neil on Covid vaccine deaths, excess mortality and vaccine definitions, citing it as support for their own points.
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.
A newsletter about use and abuse of science and statistics.
What Hacker News says?
Humpherson simply says that "ONS ... do receive data in [people within two weeks of vaccination], and that the individual would fall into the ‘vaccinated’ category" which is a meaningless tautology, as the entire argument is about the definition of vaccinated used by the public health agencies. Invalid definitions are a very real and pervasive problem, not only being standard in the public health literature but also…
Comment linking /p/the-very-best-of-cheap-trick
on “Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain aging, studies suggest”Is now a good time to say what I was censored for on Reddit/Twitter in 2021? You are statistically more likely to die if you took a Covid vaccine. https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/the-devils-advocat... We said the vaxx would cause more heart attacks, blood clots and cancers, and few people listened. Those things happened, deaths skyrocketed starting in mid-2021, and everyone is still in denial. If you don’t…
Comment linking /p/the-devils-advocate-an-exploratory?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
on “Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre-Covid forecasts”> They did not have least testing, they underwent parallel trial testing. yes, let us quibble: not tested to the degree required for regular FDA approval as safe and effective, hence “Emergency Use Authorization”. I think maybe piling on the OP is unwarranted here. IIRC in the UK the vaccines were touted by fact checkers as having “stopped hospitalisation and death from covid”, even though this was clearly not true…
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on “Woman with tuberculosis ordered to jail for refusing treatment”I believe the vaccines killed a lot of people, not just J&J https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/the-devils-advocat... My link above was about #ECMOGATE. The claim is that doctors were literally killing the unvaccinated by giving them different treatment plans that lead to more death.
Comment linking /p/the-devils-advocate-an-exploratory?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
on “Share of Americans skipping medical care due to money woes jumps significantly”