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Rootclaim Blog
Company blog · blog.rootclaim.comhealthscience
Rootclaim Blog is the company blog at blog.rootclaim.com, writing about health and science. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for Rootclaim's response to the Covid origins debate outcome, which commenters cite on the lab leak question. Another comment quotes a seatbelt and fatality argument from one of its posts.
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.
Getting to the root of the controversy. Together. With numbers.
What Hacker News says?
Which means this; it gives further weight to the lab leak theory, and shows the reasoning behind it. I don't have time to watch the 3hr debate or read all of that article (which makes some misrepresentative statements, and like your response, is rather venomous in tone), but here is the response from rootclaim about the debate outcome: https://blog.rootclaim.com/covid-origins-debate-response-to-... I also know from…
Comment linking /covid-origins-debate-response-to-scott-alexander
on “CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins”Submitted Ivermectin: Both Sides Are Wrong as a story · 5 points
HN discussion>On the contrary, the fact you don't see how they both are at play suggests the opposite Doing a quick skim of the linked article, the basis of argument seems to be: "copyright laws protecting Purdue from true and damaging information about the dangers of the medication from leaking and spreading" Which, so far as I can tell has nothing backing it. Do you mind elaborating what specific aspect of copyright law hinder…
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on “Domain Registry Takes Sci-Hub’s .SE Domain Name Offline”Submitted Skeptical that Vitamin D helps with Covid? Bet on it as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> The fact that you casually lump them together suggests that you don't understand what you're even arguing against. On the contrary, the fact you don't see how they both are at play suggests the opposite. Patented drugs are always inferior, but the truth has a hard time getting out due to (c)opywrong laws. ( https://longbets.org/855/ ) > Alright I'll bite. Can you elaborate on how they're "worse than useless"? Foll…
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on “Domain Registry Takes Sci-Hub’s .SE Domain Name Offline”Submitted Rootclaim's Covid-19 Origins debate results as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> For example, seatbelt compliance is at 88% in the U.S., but that 12% that doesn’t comply results in 47% of car accident fatalities (17,000) and costs U.S. employers $5 billion a year, and those costs are passed on to us. They made the choice, but we survivors are left to deal with the grief and the price tag. Uncited. And poorly argued. > But the real cost is the 700,000 dead, thousands of which could have been sa…
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