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The Ethical Skeptic
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The Ethical Skeptic is a personal blog at theethicalskeptic.com about science and philosophy. Since 2018, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “China’s CCP Concealed SARS-CoV-2 Presence in China as Far Back as March 2018”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this pseudonymous blog for speculative pieces on Earth's core, climate and COVID origins, and for CDC data analysis, usually with caveats about its reliability.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ethical skepticism is a pro-science paradigm shift challenging pseudo-skepticism, its agency and cultivated ignorance. Epoché Vanguards Gnosis.
Most-linked posts?
- China’s CCP Concealed SARS-CoV-2 Presence in China as Far Back as March 20184 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-11-16
- The Climate Change Alternative We Ignore (To Our Peril)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-13
- Carl Sagan Was Just Dead Wrong (2019)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-14
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-19
What Hacker News says?
not OP but this guy is a fun read, heavy conspiracy vibes, but never going full wacko: https://theethicalskeptic.com/2023/02/02/karahan-tepe-and-th... (that said there are more wacko and less wacko pieces there, you have been warned)
Comment linking /2023/02/02/karahan-tepe-and-the-serpent-motif/
on “A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe”Submitted China’s CCP Concealed SARS-CoV-2 Presence in China as Far Back as March 2018 as a story · 9 points
HN discussionWhen you understand that human and animals organic dejections are alternative fertiliser and that most aerial virus spreads through shit you can understand the main way how covid 19 was spread accross the world with very high correlation between biosolid (shit based fertiliser) spray on fields and covid 19 infection in US for exemple ( https://theethicalskeptic.com/2021/11/15/chinas-ccp-conceale... )
Comment linking /2021/11/15/chinas-ccp-concealed-sars-cov-2-presence-in-china-as-far-back-as-march-2018/
on “Historic fertilizer crunch threatens food security”Submitted Exothermic Core-Mantle Decoupling – Dzhanibekov Oscillation (ECDO) Hypothesis as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYou might be interested in reading this (very long, amateur, pseudononymous, non-peer-reviewed) analysis theorizing "SARS-CoV-2 presence in China as far back as March 2018." [0] [0] https://theethicalskeptic.com/2021/11/15/chinas-ccp-conceale...
Comment linking /2021/11/15/chinas-ccp-concealed-sars-cov-2-presence-in-china-as-far-back-as-march-2018/
on “Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients”Submitted Syndicate Science as a story · 4 points
HN discussionVaxxed. https://theethicalskeptic.com/tag/cancer/
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on “Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk”Submitted A Curious Astrological Confluence as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis correlates (in a scary way) with some interesting hypothesizing I've seen about possible cataclysims from earth's core changing within human history: https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/05/23/master-exothermic-c...
Comment linking /2024/05/23/master-exothermic-core-mantle-decoupling-dzhanibekov-oscillation-theory/
on “Forces deep underground seem to be deforming Earth's inner core”Submitted Carl Sagan Was Just Dead Wrong (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHaha, for a sec I thought you were going to link this: https://theethicalskeptic.com/2021/11/15/chinas-ccp-conceale...
Comment linking /2021/11/15/chinas-ccp-concealed-sars-cov-2-presence-in-china-as-far-back-as-march-2018/
on “Waterford has Ireland's 2nd highest Covid incidence with 99.7% fully vaccinated”Submitted The Ethical Skeptic’s Razor – The Antiwisdom of Crowds as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/05/12/exothermic-core-man... https://github.com/sovrynn/ecdo
Comment linking /2024/05/12/exothermic-core-mantle-decoupling-dzhanibekov-oscillation-ecdo-hypothesis/
on “Swarm reveals growing weak spot in Earth's magnetic field”Submitted Tyflocracy the new art of oppressive governance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOne possible explanation: https://theethicalskeptic.com/2020/02/16/the-climate-change-...
Comment linking /2020/02/16/the-climate-change-alternative-we-ignore-to-our-peril/
on “There’s a heatwave in the sea and scientists are worried”Submitted Carl Sagan Was Just Dead Wrong as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe CDC is probably hiding a lot of the damage taking place, that's where the gloating is coming from. https://theethicalskeptic.com/ https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/a-guide-to-my-excess-morta...
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on “Revisiting a controversial question, looking for honest feed back not shaming”Submitted Ethical Skepticism – Part 5 – The Real Ockham’s Razor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPoorly analyzed it seems. The person is comparing real-time, yearly jitter to a line of the 1982-2011 mean . And for some non-obvious reason is also drawing the area between two curves of the 2022 jitter and the 2023 jitter (separated in time by literally 365 days), and then saying that this differential between the two curves compared to the 1982-2011 mean is an energy jump over 3 weeks . If this says anything , it…
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on “the Earth Is Warming, but Is CO2 the Cause?”Submitted Parents’ Basement Skepticism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt may be a heat pulse from the core - which is related to the recent rotational speedup. This can release large quantities of heat into the ocean. https://theethicalskeptic.com/tag/core-exothermic-cycle/ Excerpt: Observation 7 (Deductive-Falsifying-Consilient) – El Cuervo Blanco – Spring 2023 Global and North Atlantic Heat Plume – 48% of global ocean sea surface temperature heat content rise from 1995 to 2023 arriv…
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on “the Earth Is Warming, but Is CO2 the Cause?”Submitted The Climate Change Alternative We Ignore as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI came across this hypothesis a few years ago and thought it was an interesting possibility, but that there wasn't any data that really supported it. In light of the data of the last few months I honestly can't think of a hypothesis that better explains what is going on with ocean temperature, especially in regions that should be in winter right now. https://theethicalskeptic.com/2020/02/16/the-climate-change-... It…
Comment linking /2020/02/16/the-climate-change-alternative-we-ignore-to-our-peril/
on “Winter temperatures above 35C in South America leave climatologists in disbelief”Submitted Information Always Carries Intent (Whether Intended or Not) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe ethical skeptic talks about this: https://theethicalskeptic.com/
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on “‘Something weird is going on’: Antarctic sea ice stays at historic lows”Submitted The Climate Change Alternative We Ignore (To Our Peril) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere are people on twitter/X who have been analysing the CDC data for a year and have the same conclusions; there's one interesting writeup at https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/04/16/the-state-of-things... . The author is a bit crackpoty-sounding, but the analysis passes first-order smell tests.
Comment linking /2024/04/16/the-state-of-things-pandemic-week-50-2023/
on a deleted threadSubmitted Houston, We Have a Problem (Part 1 of 3) as a story · 1 points
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