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Paul Offit
Personal blog · pauloffit.substack.comhealthscience
Paul Offit writes Beyond the Noise, a personal blog at pauloffit.substack.com about health and science. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “RFK Jr.'S Tuskegee Experiment”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Paul Offit's Substack for his infectious disease and vaccine views, including his critique of RFK Jr.'s vaccine skepticism and miasma theory, and his assessment of bird flu pandemic risk.
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.
Cutting to the Chase on Important Health Topics.
Most-linked posts?
- RFK Jr.'S Tuskegee Experiment2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-06
- /p/understanding-rfk-jr2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-13
What Hacker News says?
I was a little shocked to learn he associates himself with Miasma theory of all things over germ theory https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/understanding-rfk-jr
Comment linking /p/understanding-rfk-jr
on “RFK Jr Will Be Confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services”Submitted RFK Jr.'S Tuskegee Experiment as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPaul Offit (infectious disease physician and vaccine expert) doesn't think that this h5n1 is likely to become a human pandemic: Humans express the alpha-2,3 sialic acid receptor on cells that line the surface of the eye (which explains why the dairy farm worker in Texas had severe conjunctivitis). The alpha-2,3 sialic acid receptor is also found on cells that line the lung. However, and most importantly, the alpha-2…
Comment linking /p/h5n1-influenza-virus-bird-flu-is
on “Five people infected as bird flu appears to go from cows to chickens to humans”Submitted RFK Jr.'S Tuskegee Experiment as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Yet why Sidler was embalmed remains unclear. While the team said the evidence suggests it was carried out to avoid the spread of infection by miasma – or “bad air” Interesting, this is the second time I’ve heard of this today. The other was in the context of RFK Jr. https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/understanding-rfk-jr
Comment linking /p/understanding-rfk-jr
on “Mummy mystery solved: 'air-dried' priest was embalmed via rectum”Submitted My Conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf anyone wants an actually scientifically nuanced view on vaccines that isn't just contrarianism-for-contrarianism's sake, Paul Offit has a lot of questions on the sensibility of having a yearly vaccine like the flu shot: https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/do-we-really-need-a-yearly-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smfjyy9cgV4 But he's not a big fan of the nonsense RFK Jr is peddling: https://pauloffit.substack.co…
Comment linking /p/should-scientists-debate-the-undebatable
on “Bill Ackman stuns Wall Street by amplifying RFK Jr.’s vaccine skepticism”
