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In an abstract entitled, “Statistical dust and sweeping claims about maternal warmth,” John Richters and Everett Waters write: Alley and colleagues draw on mediation analyses of lo...
RFK, Jr. is backing a peptide out of Zagreb, BPC-157, which has lots of fans and very little evidence. What could go wrong?
Headlines are praising a new study which claims that the Covid “vaccine” reduces the risk of “Covid-related” heart attacks and strokes by 40%: A new study finds the vaccine was lin...
From Academy Health (the academic society for health services researchers) comes a very depressing post. We already know that the Dump administration has rescinded research grants...
Scientists are not, or should not be, tabloid headline writers. They should only make claims that are strongly supported by evidence. Source
TWO new studies have shown just how far down the gutter climate science has gone. 1) Marine food webs under threat from climate change A press release from the Plymouth Marine Labo...
Scientists are seen as oddballs, and that’s a problem
A few months ago I read this book, Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World, by Eugenie Reich. The book was from 2009, and I’d never heard of...
Sea level is rising; it has been for generations. The key question is whether it is accelerating in a way that justifies claims of looming crisis. The longest, most reliable measur...
MEDICAL journals have become adept at producing studies that generate headlines while concealing their weaknesses in the supplementary material. Few examples illustrate this better...
Having heard about a Trump Administration proposal to make federal research grants subject to the approval of political appointees, I fortunately remembered Pharma blogger Derek Lo...
The whole arrangement runs on the reputation. The reputation was earned over a century and a half of real work, and it is now being spent down, a chapter at a time, a curriculum at...
RCP 8.5 was used to say Gila monsters would be decimated by climate change, that climate change would spread lethal fungal outbreaks around the world, that climate change would cau...
“Science” is not a monolithic set of truths that the general public should only eagerly await to be bestowed upon them by elites who supposedly know better. A more honest […] The p...
I look forward to pseudoscience like this finally getting some airtime on 60 Minutes. For 58 long years the program has been hopelessly biased toward actual science. ★
Chronic Lyme disease is a dubious medical diagnosis, but that isn't stopping RFK Jr. from boosting it.
There are several psychological reasons why some people reject scientific consensus. How distant one feels psychologically from science increases the likelihood of rejection.
The people who do not trust science today would probably like to be able to. And the people who do trust it may simply be unaware of the problems. Source
At least that's the Republican platform. Adam Rogers in Scientific American tells the depressing story of the Dump administration's destruction of the American scientific enterpris...
...measuring consensus by having conflicted political activists read the abstracts of irrelevant journal articles from an amateur keyword search, followed by deranged arithmetic? O...
Voltaire said that madness is to have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them. Source
That is not a scientific failure. It is click-bait motivated journalistic malfeasance, and it deserves to be named as such. The post Wrong, Daily Mail, Future Melting Antarctic Ice...
While staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were racing to stop the worst measles outbreak since 2000 last year, Health and Human … Source
From the press releases "I never bothered to finish reading because it was too effing stoopid." department. The post Groan…Science Tries to Legitimize ‘Weather control’ appeared fi...
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