The Ethical Skeptic
theethicalskeptic.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2018
The Ethical Skeptic is an anonymous blog on contrarian science, COVID origins, climate, archaeology, and the ECDO hypothesis.
What HN saysHN commenters call it a fun read with conspiracy vibes that stops short of full wackiness, and link its ECDO posts and COVID claims.
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Most-shared posts
- 1China’s CCP Concealed SARS-CoV-2 Presence in China as Far Back as March 20184 people · 9 points · first shared 2021 · 1 comments on HN
- 2The Climate Change Alternative We Ignore (To Our Peril)3 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 3Carl Sagan Was Just Dead Wrong (2019)2 people · 4 points · first shared 2019 · 3 comments on HN
- 4Homepage2 people · first shared 2022
- 5Exothermic Core-Mantle Decoupling – Dzhanibekov Oscillation (ECDO) Hypothesis1 people · 5 points · first shared 2024 · 5 comments on HN
- 6Syndicate Science1 people · 4 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 7A Curious Astrological Confluence1 people · 3 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 8Parents’ Basement Skepticism1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 9Tyflocracy the new art of oppressive governance1 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 10The Ethical Skeptic’s Razor – The Antiwisdom of Crowds1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · 2 comments on HN
- 11Ethical Skepticism – Part 5 – The Real Ockham’s Razor1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 12Houston, We Have a Problem (Part 1 of 3)1 people · 1 points · first shared 2022 · 1 comments on HN
- 13The Climate Change Alternative We Ignore1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
- 14Information Always Carries Intent (Whether Intended or Not)1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 15Exothermic core mantle decoupling dzhanibekov oscillation ecdo hypothesis1 people · first shared 2025
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kardianos · 2023-07-29
The ethical skeptic talks about this:
https://theethicalskeptic.com/
pigeonhole123 · 2022-11-19
The 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-mortality-artic…
baq · 2025-10-14
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-the-serpent-… (that said there are more wacko and less wacko pieces there, you have been warned)
LargoLasskhyfv · 2025-10-14
zoomzoom · 2025-03-08
This 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-core-mantle…
wrycoder · 2023-11-04
It 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 arrived in a mere 3 weeks of 2023, far too fast for the atmosphere or man to serve as the cause. A record level Antarctic ice melt-off occurred simultaneously to this and during a record cold winter
The abrupt ocean heating is also reflected in the recent spike in satellite tropospheric temperature measurements.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/2023/11/uah-global-temperature-update-for…
anonymouskimmer · 2023-11-04
Poorly 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's only saying that the 2022 jitter and the 2023 jitter do not precisely go up and down at the exact same dates a year apart! Nothing more.
The graphic I'm looking at from your link: https://theethicalskeptic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/July-2023-SST…
jboggan · 2023-08-04
I 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-alternativ…
It's a really long article and has been updated continuously for 3 years as new data has been coming in, but I think it really explains how this warming is being driven from the crust and bottom of the ocean up, and not via atmospheric warming. It also has an interesting proposal for the linkage between this observed warming and the variance of Earth's rotation, as well as the long observed weakening of the magnetic field.
netmonk · 2022-05-02
When 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-concealed-sars-cov…
TechBro8615 · 2022-01-05
You 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-concealed-sars-cov…
dudeofea · 2021-11-17
Haha, for a sec I thought you were going to link this:
https://theethicalskeptic.com/2021/11/15/chinas-ccp-concealed-sars-cov…
collyw · 2023-09-29