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Tag: fake science
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.
Even the NIH is being overwhelmed by AI generated submissions. Where does this end?
Someone needs to put a stop to the AI slop.
FDA will apparently be approving fictional drugs based on chatbot auto-complete hallucinated fake science studies.
What could possibly go wrong?
All the science that’s fit to print… and some is actually unfit but gets published anyway.
Beware those who claim that “censorship” is holding back “innovation” because the truth is science is a work in progress building consensus and building on a body of evidence with what’s come before.
