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Richard Gill
Personal blog · gill1109.commathsciencepolitics
Richard Gill's personal blog at gill1109.com covers math, science and politics. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Lucy Letby Case”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers point to Richard Gill's site as a source of much information on the Lucy Letby case. Gill is cited in a news article on it, and commenters discuss the statistics of the suspicious deaths.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Statistical and scientific research, consultancy, advocacy
Most-linked posts?
- The Lucy Letby Case2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-20
What Hacker News says?
Richard Gill, who is cited in this article, has a website with a lot of information about the Lucy Letby case: https://gill1109.com
Comment linking /
on “A British Nurse Was Found Guilty of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It?”Submitted The Lucy Letby Case as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI went down the rabbit hole on this a couple of months ago. Some of the details are a bit hazy in my memory now as it was about 2 months ago, but in the interest of playing devil's advocate... > the suspicious deaths all lined up perfectly with Lucy Letby's shifts Once a nurse has been around the ward for long enough to have seen several deaths, you can produce a table showing a set of baby deaths correlating to any…
Comment linking /2023/05/24/the-lucy-letby-case/
on “Experts warn Letby inquiry of misreading stats to explain 'suspicious' deaths”Submitted Steve Gull's Challenge as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is a statistician concerned about José Booij? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dutch Family Justice – The Tragic Case of José Booij as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Contempt of Court as a story · 1 points
HN discussion