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Stuart Ritchie
Personal blog · stuartritchie.substack.comsciencehealth
Stuart Ritchie writes Science Fictions, a personal blog at stuartritchie.substack.com about science and health. Since 2022, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “The NIH's misguided genetics data policy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Stuart Ritchie's Substack as a source on psychedelic therapy evidence, nudge research and publication bias, science politics, and NIH genetics data. Most links are used to support points in discussion.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Good writing about bad science.
Most-linked posts?
- The NIH's misguided genetics data policy3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-10-26
- Nudged Off a Cliff3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-07-26
- Circling the wagons and the tendency towards tribalism in academia2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-11
- Please stop saying hot drinks cool you down2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-17
- Scientific Nihilism2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-19
- Psychedelics and mental illness2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-15
What Hacker News says?
Hi all, I'm one of the authors of the reply and it was very interesting reading so many diverse thoughts and comments. I would love to respond to all of them, but it would take ages. Luckily, Stuart Ritchie (@StuartJRitchie) wrote an awesome post on his substack ( https://stuartritchie.substack.com/p/nudge-meta ) that goes much deeper and adresses many questions and the fair critique raised here. Also, note that the…
Comment linking /p/nudge-meta
on “No evidence for nudging after adjusting for publication bias”Submitted Psychedelics and mental illness as a story · 180 points
HN discussionIf you do a simple ctrl+f on the article for "MDMA", the second result directly addresses MDMA used for PTSD[0], and the big issues surrounding clinical trials for it. Based on the treatment of participants in MAPS trials, conducted under Health Canada, I would treat anything the FDA says about psychedelics with a large amount of skepticism too. [0] https://stuartritchie.substack.com/p/psychedelics?s=r#:~:tex...
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on “Psychedelics and mental illness”Submitted Science is political, and that's a bad thing as a story · 106 points
HN discussionSee, this is exactly the problem I'm talking about. For example, you are referencing Feldman&Riskin, as if they have made some cogent argument. They have not, their review is a mess. Consider Nick Patterson's response: > Let us discuss the genetics of Educational Attainment (EA) defined as the number of years of schooling and measured in adults over 30 years old. EA takes up a good part both of the book and the revi…
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on “Can growth continue?”Submitted Do breastfed children have higher IQs? The answer is annoyingly hard to uncover as a story · 89 points
HN discussionThere's currently no patent on Lexapro, Prozac, or Risperdal either. "These companies" now have basically zero incentive to support them or to sic "PR goons" on their opponents. There are also legitimate concerns about biases in the evidence base for claims about the efficacy of psychedelics: https://stuartritchie.substack.com/p/psychedelics And yes, psychedelics have side effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall…
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on “Is the psychedelic therapy bubble about to burst?”Submitted Does watching pornography cause erectile dysfunction? as a story · 33 points
HN discussionCalling this[1] "an article about racist dog names" is a complete misrepresentation. It's a critique of a study published in Social Psychology Quarterly, which is an official journal of the American Sociological Association. [1] - https://stuartritchie.substack.com/p/dog-name-racism
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on “Science is political, and that's a bad thing”Submitted Circling the wagons and the tendency towards tribalism in academia as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThe white admixture could allow you to do admixture studies. Ie examine the inherited white regions see how white polygenic educational attainment scores vs pigmentation scores affect outcomes This is explicitly forbidden in terms of use of the best databases however https://stuartritchie.substack.com/p/nih-genetics
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on “I'll eat the pages of the law if anyone can find a clause that calls for quotas”Submitted Circling the wagons and the tendency towards tribalism in academia as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> and jesus dude, 1950s much? Nah, it's 2023 and problems are a bit different: https://stuartritchie.substack.com/p/nih-genetics
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on “Q&A: How DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain andturned her into a sharpshooter”Submitted Growth Mindset Shrank as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nudged Off a Cliff as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Science Isn't Storytelling as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Identical twins aren't *that* identical as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Circling the Wagons as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nudged Off a Cliff as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Please stop saying hot drinks cool you down as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Please stop saying hot drinks cool you down as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scientific Nihilism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Science Fictions has moved to the I as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When meta-analysis goes wrong as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The NIH's misguided genetics data policy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The NIH's misguided genetics data policy as a story · 1 points
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