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Reese Richardson
Personal blog · reeserichardson.blogsciencedata
Reese Richardson's personal blog at reeserichardson.blog covers science and data. Since 2024, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Engineering the highest cited cat, Larry”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog in a thread on whether turmeric and curcumin have health benefits. The one comment disputes a cited paper's co-author and notes curcumin's lab effects don't carry over to humans.
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.
Case studies in scientific reproducibility
Most-linked posts?
- Engineering the highest cited cat, Larry3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-22
- The King of Curcumin: a case study in consequences of large-scale research fraud2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-03
What Hacker News says?
That paper is co-authored by Bharat B. Aggarwal, who has been found to produce fraudulent research [1], and many of whose papers have been retracted. This is the guy mentioned in the New Scientist article! Curcumin has been extensively studied, and a common observation is that it is fantastically bioactive in vitro, but tends to have zero meaningful properties when introduced into the biology of a real human being.…
Comment linking /2024/01/30/the-king-of-curcumin-a-case-study-in-the-consequences-of-large-scale-research-fraud/
on “Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits?”Submitted The King of Curcumin: a case study in consequences of large-scale research fraud as a story · 86 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recent encounters with atom-thin salami slicing as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering the highest cited cat, Larry as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted At least 15 companies are selling antibodies using faked validation data as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Felix Domesticus Scholasticus: Engineering the highest cited cat, Larry as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering the highest cited cat, Larry as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering the highest cited cat, Larry as a story · 1 points
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