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The 21st Century Salon
Personal blog · bprice.substack.compoliticsphilosophy
The 21st Century Salon is a personal blog at bprice.substack.com about politics and philosophy. Since 2022, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Lab Leak 2.0?”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for its lab-leak writing, including a piece arguing Omicron could be a lab leak, and a post on trans issues cited as support. The posts are discussed as sources in debates.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Lab Leak 2.0?5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-01-03
- On Separating Human Universals from Cultural Creations3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-09-08
What Hacker News says?
The science is suppressed because people are and have been fearful to even research and make a claim contrary to the socially allowed claim. There is actually lack of solid evidence of natural evolution of the virus as well and they have yet to find any connection to any animal with the virus, not to mention the viruses spike protein would make it not infectious in bats where the origin was hypothesized. Yet, speaki…
Comment linking /p/yes-we-need-to-keep-talking-about
on “Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt”Submitted Lab Leak 2.0? as a story · 576 points
HN discussionSome believe that Omicron (yes, the mutation) may be a leak from a lab that was doing research on the original version of Covid. https://bprice.substack.com/p/lab-leak-20 It's an interesting read. Author puts forward a few arguments for why this may be the case (more research needed, of course, but pretty compelling in my view).
Comment linking /p/lab-leak-20
on “Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt”Submitted On Separating Human Universals from Cultural Creations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe Omicron variant is actual prior to Delta variant and prior to all other variants even so named Alpha variant. This article indicates why Omicron could be yet another lab leak. https://bprice.substack.com/p/lab-leak-20
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on “Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt”Submitted On Separating Human Universals from Cultural Creations as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe article you linked was extremely short on details and mechanisms In the paper that the article links about mutations in an HIV patient ( https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.03.21258228v... ) There is a figure 1 and the left side (A) which shows a maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree. If you examine this tree, you can see that the highlighted piece is based off a recent (to the HIV patient's case) var…
Comment linking /p/lab-leak-20
on “Lab Leak 2.0?”> These "trans issues" have existed for thousands of years Not really, it's a recent cultural phenomenon: https://bprice.substack.com/p/trans-is-something-we-made-up
Comment linking /p/trans-is-something-we-made-up
on “US girls getting first periods earlier over the last 50 years, study finds”https://bprice.substack.com/p/trans-is-something-we-made-up
Comment linking /p/trans-is-something-we-made-up
on “Genetic variants for male bisexuality, risk-taking linked to more children”Omicron is a weird variant. It has evolved to defeat three different therapeutic monoclonal antibodies. Antibodies are like the immune systems classifiers, a function that takes in a object and returns a probability that the object is a specific pathogen. If the antibody binds to the pathogen for a long time, then P_pathogen is high, if it quickly unbinds or does not bind at all, P_pathogen is low. Brownian motion i…
Comment linking /p/lab-leak-20
on “Ask HN: Could Omicron boosters create an overfitting problem?”