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Seth Mnookin
Personal blog · sethmnookin.comsciencehealthwriting
Seth Mnookin's personal blog at sethmnookin.com covers science, health and writing. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Seth Mnookin's posts on vaccine-autism coverage, including the retraction of a Salon.com article and the credibility of an autism researcher. The comments cite these posts as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
In The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin draws on interviews with parents, public-health advocates, scientists, and anti-vaccine activists to tackle a fundamental question: How do we decide what the truth is? The fascinating answer helps explain everything from the persistence of conspiracy theories about 9/
What Hacker News says?
She is also a quack, and hardly one of the "leading autism experts" in the United States. http://sethmnookin.com/2011/04/20/researcher-who-does-not-me... http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2016/10/1730-martha-herber...
Comment linking /2011/04/20/researcher-who-does-not-meet-the-standard-of-reliability-required-by-case-law-good-enough-for-pbss-newshour/
on “Wi-fi is an important threat to human health”More on the retraction of the Salon.com article http://sethmnookin.com/2011/01/17/salon-retracts-deadly-immu...
Comment linking /2011/01/17/salon-retracts-deadly-immunity-rfk-jr-keep-it-on-his-site-as-does-dr-jay/
on “Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link 'an absolute lie'”Fascinating read, he seems to be doing well now... http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/index.php , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Mnookin
Comment linking /blog/index.php
on “Harvard and Heroin”