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On the provenance and funding of extremely cited articles.
I guess maybe John Ioannidis would know.
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.
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.
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.
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?
If something is “drug free” it can’t treat anything, because if it can treat something, it’s a drug. That’s how words work.
That’s the definition of a drug, it treats disease, in the dictionary and legally. But companies use this line of something being “drug free” in order to try to openly skirt the law.
The pressure on elected officials about vaccines must come from constituents in their districts.
I believe the only answer here is that the congresspeople and senators all get unimaginable pressure.
Vaccine fruit basket upset: write your reps.
Vaccines are in jeopardy and a public health doctor resigned from CDC, openly citing the eugenics language of leadership.
Even the NIH is being overwhelmed by AI generated submissions. Where does this end?
Someone needs to put a stop to the AI slop.
Spotted Lanternfly in Scranton Pennsylvania.
Unfortunately we’ve got an bunch of these in Scranton Pennsylvania.
FDA will apparently be approving fictional drugs based on chatbot auto-complete hallucinated fake science studies.
What could possibly go wrong?
RFKJr is a menace to public health & science.
“While Kennedy has a long history of promoting anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, he has not explicitly promoted chlorine dioxide as a treatment. However, in January, during his Senate confirmation hearing, he referenced chlorine dioxide while praising Trump for “looking at all of the different remedies” for Covid…”
Your medical data is out there and the only way to stop misuse of it is regulatory law.
Avoid using nonsense copypasta letters you find on facebook. Rely on proven sources who know how things work in government for information on how to advocate for yourself.
All that the Trump regime intends is chaos, including in space and planetary sciences.
Slashing science budgets are causing chaos and waste taxpayer investment.
Maybe a lot of stuff called AI can be called just another quack pseudoscience snake oil.
Pseudoscience pushing unproven medical remedies and health treatments with no basis also usually has some “maybe in the future” assertion.
Cancer treatment books shouldn’t be written with a chatbot.
This shouldn’t even have to be said.
People who care about public health: stay focused on fundamentals regarding vaccines.
And definitely nobody should be getting medical information from media interviews with RFKJr either because he’s not even a doctor and says stuff he’s pulling out of the air, or somewhere else.
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the other forms of government?
Politics is always involved in healthcare, and always should be. Doctors and scientists are humans and should not pretend to be above the rest of us or operating outside of the reality of our communities.
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.
These “dire wolf” animals sound like the wolf version of rose bushes that get fancy stuff grafted on.
“They are using the attention economy to drive up the value of their company.” – Johannes Vogel, Director General of the Berlin’s Museum of Natural History