I guess maybe John Ioannidis would know.
Tag: misinformation
We already have secret unseen societal credit scores.
Surveillance pricing ought to be outlawed, and there should never be a time you are compelled to be surveilled just to buy something.
Silicon Valley tech magnates are far right. It’s been there all along.
I’m glad that people are re-upping stuff from the past, because I remember. No, not everyone thought these people were wonderful.
AI boosters use the vulnerable people as scapegoats tactic.
Sometimes it’s meant as a way to put people at ease who believe themselves to not be at risk, and sometimes it’s a way to say it just happens to “those other people” and that’s ok actually.
Infectious disease is seemingly assiduously ignored in media.
There were 2 articles about “health” in the newspaper in early September 2025. One was ostensibly about staying healthy during air travel, and the other was about children staying healthy at school. Neither mentioned aerosol transmission of infectious disease like covid, nor anything you could do about it.
The anti-vax team at the central government.
This is what I found over a year ago on the doctor Jordan Vaughn who’s now on the CDC ACIP working group as a “subject matter expert”
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.
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
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.
