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Wrong, Daily Mail, Future Melting Antarctic Ice Isn’t Going to Drown Millions

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...

Applying Scientific Method to the Origin of Life Yields Shaky Results

Scientists are not, or should not be, tabloid headline writers. They should only make claims that are strongly supported by evidence. Source

'AI Slop' Is Flooding Science Publishing, And One Major Site Is Fighting Back

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Polymarket Spreads Sensationalist Garbage About Hantavirus Case in U.S.

They're certainly not helping prediction markets with credibility.

What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: The 'Missing Scientists' Conspiracy Theory

As usual, the truth is more mundane than the conspiracy theory.

How a Scientific Cartel Protects Fraudsters and Rakes in Billions of Taxpayer Dollars

Corrupt scientists rarely face accountability. The real victims are everyone else.

Postmodern anti-science attitudes?

John “not Jaws” Williams writes: For some time, I’ve noticed postmodernist views cropping up in the magazine Science, mostly in the book reviews. In the 23 Feb 2024 issue, however,...

More head-burying in the sand from the covid jab ostriches

NO matter how poor the science, provided the results support covid orthodoxy, Global Health NOW (GHN) will flag it up. And in the echo chamber that is the covid orthodox world, the...

RFK Jr. and the Perils of Peptides

Wrong, The Independent, the Atlantic Current Isn’t on the Brink of Collapse

The Independent declaring a looming catastrophe based on one modeling study doesn’t represent balanced, informed science reporting. Rather, it is acting as a promoter for an alarmi...

Gain-of-function experiments on hantaviruses? Yes, but virus threat is still MASSIVELY overblown.

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...

Popular Supplement May Have an Unexpected Downside, Study Finds

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Wrong Again, Associated Press, Climate Change Isn’t Overrunning Evolution

The Associated Press has taken an emerging field of conservation genomics and wrapped it in an existential storyline that exaggerates the speed and uniqueness of current climate tr...

Fraud and the false optimism of AI for science

This is Jessica. “Scientific doomerism” seems to be everywhere lately, from a presidential statement that promises to restore “gold standard science” from the top down because scie...

This Week in Science: PCOS Becomes PMOS, an 'Impossible' Crystal, And More!

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Bixonimania: How AI Turned a Joke Diagnosis into “Peer‑Reviewed” Medicine

When a joke diagnosis morphs into “peer-reviewed” research, it is clear that the crisis in scientific credibility is no longer confined to sloppy research or corrupted journals but...

Coffee Break: Scientists Being Bad and Good, the Moon, and More Ancient Archaeology

Part the First: Dealing with Scientific Misconduct.  Trust in science has declined during my professional work life.  Some, but not all, of this is due to misconduct by scientists,...

How the “Missing Scientists” Conspiracy Theory Went Mainstream After Others Failed

For the past several weeks, every sector of the media, from the fringe to the mainstream, has played host to allegations that a group of U.S. scientists are suspiciously missing or...

The News You Watch Is Shaping Whether You Vaccinate Your Kids

By the summer of 2025, measles had returned to the United States in a way not seen since the disease was declared eradicated twenty-five years earlier. More than 2,000 cases spread...

Apenonderzoekers trapten regelmatig in pseudowetenschappelijke valkuilen

Science, now with 110,000 made-up sources!

Turns out the problem with AI in science isn't just that it occasionally gets things wrong, it's that AI confidently invents sources that don't exist, and those fake citations are...

Hantasteria

I've always found the priorities and obsessions of the corporate media to be bizarre, but this past week they've really outdone themselves. Every major news network's web site has...

WESA Is Wrong, Sneezing and Watering Eyes Aren’t Climate Change Indicators

Sneezing in March is not a climate signal and WESA is doing a disservice to allergy sufferers in their coverage area by falsely leading them to think climate change is making them...

This Week in Science: Osteoarthritis Injections, Whale 'Speech', And Much More!

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