“Universal COVID vaccination saves lives, averts 10% to 20% of disease burden, estimates suggest”
Month: September 2025
Apple iphone Siri to start pushing anti-vax pseudoscience politics?
“intolerance” and “systemic racism”
The supplement boom is based in shoddy science, or no real science at all.
Because so often the online marketing of supplements and various wellness products involves linking to a study that doesn’t back up their claims at all, but nobody ever clicks through so they get away with fraudulent appeal to authority.
On the ground in Pennsylvania ahead of PA’s pivotal Supreme Court retention election.
t’s an important election coming up.
Republicans are running nonstop commercials in NEPA (Northeastern Pennsylvania) to justify the BBBill.
Republicans, or somebody pro-Republican, is running ads that are trying to tell us Rep. Rob Bresnahan voting for the Big Boondoggle Bill was good actually. They’re trying to advance this false narrative that denying healthcare insurance coverage for some healthy young men and rarely use their healthcare is somehow going to make it better for disabled people.
Partnering with AI tech tycoons who wanna be kings is not democracy.
Anyone trying to push for “managing” AI or “sustainably” supporting AI is not operating in reality.
AI Boosters contradict each other & can’t be trusted.
My published Letter to the Editor about AI and data centers in the Scranton Times-Tribune.
Adding to the laundry list of reasons I’m disappointed with Josh Shapiro.
My letter to Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania
Worst headline ever to describe mental healthcare misconduct with AI slop.
It’s an offensively inappropriate use of the term “triggered” in this headline.
Medicare should not deploy AI to make mistakes with people’s healthcare.
These AI systems are known for making huge errors and are not reliable, and now the tech companies are going to be paid explicitly for denying claims using AI.
Thousands demonstrated in Chicago and DC.
Several thousand protesters marched in Washington, D.C.
AI slop science fraud.
More evidence to say that you really really shouldn’t just believe hype on the internet because it sounds like science and some fancy outlet is doing PR for example.
The marketing of health products based on prelim studies.
I’ve seen a pattern over the years where products are already on the market, and sometimes even being marketed online especially on social media, and the only evidence anyone points to is some preliminary study that’s inconclusive but “promising”.
More pressure on elected representatives on vaccines must come from constituents.
RFKJr promised that anyone who wants to would be able to get covid boosters if they want to, but that’s not what’s happening.
Not only does ChatGPT cite non-existent science papers, it also treats retracted papers as legit.
Isn’t it obvious that this chatbot technology is dangerously unreliable?
Are people really so naive that they don’t know about astroturfing? Seriously?
I see people who have no idea why someone rich right-winger might fund something leftist. Did nobody ever hear of a strawman? People have seriously never heard the concept of being co-opted?
People have been misled about the opposition to public health, and the dangers of MAGA MAHA.
It was always the right-wing pushing everyone to the right. And politicians need to be pushed back, and the only people who can do that is constituents. Quite a catch 22.
RE: political consultancy class “research” stuff.
I’m thinking of the Blue Rose Research bullshit, which reminded me of the Impact Research bullshit and Matt Cartwright shitting the bed.
2 things can be true at once, kids and phones discourse edition.
Two things or multiple things can be true at once. Social media is toxic, and kids should have access to phone service.
