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The headline is glaringly inaccurate. It says, “University press removes book about intelligent design for misquoting ID proponent.” Source
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...
A bad press release makes a good excuse to look at how developmental biology works.
As New Scientist celebrates its 70th anniversary, climate change, AI and misinformation have heightened the need for rigorous, sceptical reporting
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...
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...
The lack of scrutiny and skepticism by professional academics reflects a crisis of its own. Source
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...
Euronews could have investigated those inconvenient facts. Instead, it took a collection of predictions about food, water, migration, geopolitics, and energy, wrapped them together...
Too often, the result is widespread exaggeration, dodgy methods, and miscommunication.
Most published research findings are still false, and AI is making things worse. What changes would help? Dr. Bhattacharya dreams big. Source
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
Do as he says, not as he does.
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...
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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