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  • The media is polluted with bad science, but there are ways to clean it up
  • Retraction Watch Reports on Designer Science Fiasco, but Mischaracterizes It
  • Bad science hijacking our water and health debates

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newsroom.co.nz /3 weeks ago

The media is polluted with bad science, but there are ways to clean it up

Shoddy studies keep making...

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Retraction Watch Reports on Designer Science Fiasco, but Mischaracterizes It

The headline is glaringly inaccurate. It says, “University press removes book about intelligent design for misquoting ID proponent.” Source

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newsroom.co.nz /2 weeks ago

Bad science hijacking our water and health debates

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wattsupwiththat.com /1 month ago

Follow Science, New York Times, Coral’s Are Doing Well Amid Modest Climate Change

In the end, Glabicki and the New York Times went off half-cocked, reporting on a single study’s findings about coral reef conditions without checking them against other sources of...

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arstechnica.com /1 month ago

Contrary to some reports, you don't have two brains

A bad press release makes a good excuse to look at how developmental biology works.

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newscientist.com /3 weeks ago

Trustworthy science journalism is more essential than ever

As New Scientist celebrates its 70th anniversary, climate change, AI and misinformation have heightened the need for rigorous, sceptical reporting

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conservativedailynews.com /1 month ago

Measles by New York Times Weasels: Fails Scientific Scrutiny

by cotobuzz at CDN - While the news article is not a scientific publication (paper, preprint, methods paper, or institutional surveillance report), we run it through the Generaliz...

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realclearpolitics.com /1 month ago

How To Fake Climate Science and Fool the World

Was the recent disaster in the Himalayas caused by climate change? A study published by an influential climate group said yes. But its methods turned out to be deeply flawed, write...

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scienceandculture.com /1 month ago

Scholarship Hits the Fan: Designer Science Now Gone from Multiple Sites

The lack of scrutiny and skepticism by professional academics reflects a crisis of its own. Source

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wattsupwiththat.com /3 weeks ago

Wrong, TIME, One Nor’easter Isn’t Proof of Climate Change

TIME starts with a storm, asks how climate change made it worse, and then assembles quotations supporting that premise while relegating contradictory evidence to a few sentences. T...

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wattsupwiththat.com /3 weeks ago

Wrong, Euronews: Climate Change Has Not Created a Food, Energy, and Economic “Meta-Crisis”

Euronews could have investigated those inconvenient facts. Instead, it took a collection of predictions about food, water, migration, geopolitics, and energy, wrapped them together...

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realclearinvestigations.com /3 weeks ago

Why So Many Social Science Claims Are False

Too often, the result is widespread exaggeration, dodgy methods, and miscommunication.

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taipeitimes.com /3 weeks ago

The dismally obedient science

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scienceandculture.com /1 day ago

Jay Bhattacharya: For a Second Scientific Revolution

Most published research findings are still false, and AI is making things worse. What changes would help? Dr. Bhattacharya dreams big. Source

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legal-planet.org /1 month ago

What In The World Is Happening At Nature?

By now, the tragic story of Jason Arday is well-known. But it seems that many people are doing their best to not learn anything from it. In this case, “many people” seems to be the...

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journals.plos.org /2 weeks ago

Better antibodies, better science

by Johan Duchêne Poorly validated antibodies generate misleading results and waste research resources. Two new studies in PLOS Biology quantify the ethical costs of this issue, ex...

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madinamerica.com /1 month ago

When Medical Science Refuses to Correct Itself

Science is supposed to be self-correcting. But what happens when the journals entrusted to uphold this principle become its gatekeepers? The post When Medical Science Refuses to Co...

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scienceandculture.com /3 weeks ago

Beware of These Two Sources of Bad Medical Advice

The bots are more likely to accept planted nonsense if it appears in clinical documents — not unlike some people we know, to be honest. Source

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futurism.com /1 month ago

A Highly Trafficked Space News Site Invented a Fake NASA Engineer and Used Her Name to Publish to AI-Generated Slop

The company deleted huge swathes of the site after we noticed. It's still publishing complete nonsense. The post A Highly Trafficked Space News Site Invented a Fake NASA Engineer a...

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taipeitimes.com /1 month ago

Sorting the science from the hype about weight loss jabs

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abnormalreturns.com /1 month ago

Sunday links: science denial

Fund managementIt's hard to overstate the impact of the indexing revolution. (bobpisani.substack.com)Will ETFs embrace perpetual futures? (etfcentral.com)NvidiaA look at Nvidia's...

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reason.com /2 days ago

John Oliver Warned Against Cherry-Picked Studies. Then He Cherry-Picked His Own.

Do as he says, not as he does.

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wattsupwiththat.com /2 weeks ago

Wrong, Los Angeles Times, Climate Change Is Not Turning Nature into a Horror Movie

Nature isn’t staging a revolt against humanity. The LAT is simply staging a clickbait style horror story for its readers, and calling it climate science. That’s probably why it is...

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wattsupwiththat.com /1 month ago

Wrong, USA Today, “Hottest Summer Ever” Claim Ignores the Most Important Temperature Record

Good climate journalism should do the opposite. It should explain uncertainty, distinguish between adjusted datasets and pristine observations, and recognize that a record based on...

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