Roberto Buccione

The quote marks implied sarcasm...

How did the "reviewers" not catch this? 🤔

Wow. This is [sarcasm ON] one good-looking paper (and journal)[sarcasm OFF].

sure...

Indeed, as the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

The "transcriptomic chaos" preprint has been withdrawn by @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social!

See here for more info: reeserichardson.blog/2025/07/28/n...

I wouldn't discount a certain level of bias but based on what you report it is just a correlation. It might also be that the outcomes also correlate with the overall quality of the submitted manuscripts which then in turn correlates with the prestige of the institutions and geographical locations.

I have tried lao gan ma for the first time and my eyes are opened. God put me on this earth to eat this. There is no other reason.

Here's a short bio of the lead Au found on the inter web: "Visionary" CEO and Co-founder of Neo7Bioscience, "pioneering molecular breakthroughs" at the intersection of AI, HI (Human Intelligence), and bioscience. He has a PhD in Naturopathic Medicine & in Ethics and Theology. Just saying...

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Science, metascience, metametascience, *critical* metascience, and how science's greatest strengths are its greatest weaknesses.

Gloomier than usual and it's only Wednesday.

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One of the biggest issues with meritocracy is that it fails to recognise that we massively underrate the role of chance in the outcomes of people's lives. This is even putting aside your birth circumstances, which are also chance.

Or actually, if one reads further down about the "provocative" markers, perhaps the "authors" were referring to IBD.

Am I to understand that "provocative entrail illness" is non other than a good ol' "irritable bowel syndrome", but said much more eloquently?

Perhaps you might be indirectly saying something similar but, honestly, I just think he was not brave enough.

Yep. Sounds very much like the Bird flu version of the ghastly Great Barrington Declaration.

I was under the impression that metaresearch and metascience are actually synonyms...

‪@samuelmoore.org‬

La petite mort?

Poisoning science since 2005... (op. cit. the infamous PLOS Medicine paper).

I guess Ioannidis got the headlines he wanted with his unscientific presentation and straw man claims. Andy Stirling (and many others at the conference) asked better questions and were more willing to discuss the evidence underlying reform efforts. #metascience2025

He's a "co-editor in chief" (whatever that means) of Oncotarget. 'Nuff said.

Although going uphill does become increasingly tougher... 😬

It does, doesn't it? Also, the main author of that paper did not perform so flawlessly in their forays into epidemiological research during the COVID era... & lots of damage was caused at the time, which persists to this day. Remember the "Great Barrington" declaration? @richardsever.bsky.social

Perhaps his sudden fall from grace will infuse the @royalsociety.org with a modicum of courage? But perhaps it wouldn't be exactly a display of "courage" at this point...

Published in "Oncotarget". Just sayin'...

I occasionally look at my "Discover" feed to get a broad idea of what's going on on BSky... I am starting to see borderline unsettling stuff a bit more often. Still quite rare though, and definitely not X grade abuse/trash, but possibly on the rise. Do you have the same impression?

Very well said.

Indeed. Ultimately if this goes on there will just be less science and therefore less progress. A dark age of sorts.

Oops...

I agree, and have also seen a bad case of this sort in Italy some time ago. Can't say more but, again, totally predictable.

Old news, but still good to reiterate in these dark times.