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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. ★
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...
Scientists are not, or should not be, tabloid headline writers. They should only make claims that are strongly supported by evidence. Source
Scientists are seen as oddballs, and that’s a problem
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...
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The hemorrhage of local journalists nationwide continues, according to the Local Journalist Index 2026, a project of Rebuilding Local News and Muck Rack.
Palko points to this breakdown of a junk news story. The fake-survey-to-headline pipeline reminds me of a credulous Wall Street Journal story from a few years back. But, yeah, with...
RFK, Jr. is backing a peptide out of Zagreb, BPC-157, which has lots of fans and very little evidence. What could go wrong?
They're certainly not helping prediction markets with credibility.
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...
The legacy media feverishly concern-mongered about COVID-19 and then tried unsuccessfully to generate similar hysteria over the gay-spread monkeypox virus.Clearly desperate for a n...
MEDICAL journals have become adept at producing studies that generate headlines while concealing their weaknesses in the supplementary material. Few examples illustrate this better...
If you’re a special interest group basing your policy preferences on bad science and needing donor dollars, you must scare people, and a Louisiana media source bought it, hook, lin...
So, I came across this news article titled, “Riley Thinks Suits Make the Coach. Research Says He Might Be Right.”: The suit had a classic name: the Clark Gable. Navy blue and cut j...
“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...
The tally from Trumpian attacks on science now includes billions of dollars in damage to farmers and ranchers and assaults on scientists' freedom of speech.
Aaron Brown discusses how research gets distorted, why sensational claims spread so quickly, and how to think more critically about the numbers behind the headlines.
Framing a millisecond-scale variation as “unprecedented” planetary destabilization represents a a textbook example of taking a measurable but trivial geophysical adjustment and inf...
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
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...
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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...
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