Stuart Jones

Provocative new book says we must persuade people to have more babies The population is set to plummet and we don't know how to stop it, warn Dean Spears and Michael Geruso in their new book, After the Spike

Four-fifths of all the humans 🤰 who will ever be born may already have been born 🧪

That's one of the claims in the book After the Spike by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso. Could they be right? 1/

www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.

This is one of those “oh yeh, that’s obvious” once you know it, but if it’s not an area you know about it might not be obvious until it’s pointed out.

Which is a long way of saying, think about it before you write about it.

hi i'm ben your ai chatbot

I remain unconvinced that we are going to see significant improvements in the NHS.

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COYH! 🙏🙏🙏🙏

The concept of ultraprocessed food is unscientific because no one can agree on a definition. Leading proponents of the idea have suggested it includes "foods that can't be made at home" (though if you do make a UPF at home, it magically becomes ok) or "foods with ingredients you can't pronounce".

linkedin post screenshot: Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally) Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

Really nice visualisation of a lagged health outcome over decades (in contrast to the delays over days/weeks we typically see for acute infectious diseases like COVID)

People like to think Asimov predicted the current technology known as "artificial intelligence". They are wrong. It was Douglas Adams when a computer spent untold resources just to return an answer which is both irrelevant and poses further questions.

Tim Spector is the last person I'd go to to comment on the demise of WeightWatchers given his vested interest in flogging an overpriced weightloss, sorry, "healthier eating" system. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

No need to stop the 'brain rot': Modern kids aren't less intelligent The idea that the rise of tech means today's young people are less intelligent than previous generations is rife – but wrong, says neuroscientist Dean Burnett

No need to stop the 'brain rot': Modern kids aren't less intelligent

www.newscientist.com...

It's me, in New Scientist magazine, standing up for 'the kids' yet again, as they're subjected to an endless barrage of evidence-free accusations and paranoia

#Technology #Brains #Teens

Is certainly not 'simple' but this is a very important study..

Dire wolves remain very extinct Despite what you are being fed, de-extinction is a con, full of gloss, bullshit and ghoulish greed.

The resurrection circus keeps clowning, but make no mistake, Dire wolves remain very extinct.

An angry, sweary piece by a frustrated geneticist.

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No.

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I asked it the same question, told me to uninstall WhatsApp and delete my account 🤣

Prostate cancer - UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) - GOV.UK

Yes, and National Screening Committee make this very clear view-health-screening-recommendations.service.gov.uk/prostate-can...

The PSA is a fearsomely crude test which throws too many false positives. It is not and should not be used for routine screening.

23andMe Is Under Fire. Its Founder Remains ‘Optimistic’ 23andMe’s CEO Anne Wojcicki has saved the genetics company from the brink of failure before. She sat down with WIRED to talk about where it goes from here.

23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and its CEO Anne Wojcicki has resigned. A year ago, Wojcicki told WIRED she felt "optimistic" about the company. A profile:

Exclusive: U.S. CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.

Unfucking believable as CDC is suddenly launching a study into exploring possible links with MMR and autism. I wonder who might have initiated this? 🤔 to be clear There is NO link and this has already been debunked in massive studies 🧪🧵

The chart titled "Share of births that are twins" displays the percentage of twin births over time, spanning from 1858 to 2021. The vertical axis represents the share of births that are twins, ranging from 0% to 2%. There are five colored lines, each representing a different country: the United States, France, Canada, Australia, and England and Wales. Throughout the years, the percentage of twin births shows a noticeable increase in each of the countries shown, particularly from the 1980s. A note on the chart indicates that delayed childbearing, alongside technologies such as IVF, has contributed to this rise in twin births. The data for this chart is sourced from the Human Multiple Births Database in 2024. The chart is credited under a Creative Commons BY license, and is published by Our World in Data.

The twin baby boom

Isn’t it depressing when even the guardian continues to launder Musk’s reputation and perpetuate the polymath myth. In no way did Elon Musk put a chip in this man’s brain.

School phone policies and their association with mental wellbeing, phone use, and social media use (SMART Schools): a cross-sectional observational study There is no evidence that restrictive school policies are associated with overall phone and social media use or better mental wellbeing in adolescents. The findings do not provide evidence to support ...

Can we mpw expect lots of TV shows and columns on how healthy schools that allow mobiles are? Study via Lancet "There is no evidence that restrictive school policies are associated with overall phone and social media use or better mental wellbeing in adolescents." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The tuba meme, where a schoolgirl has her head pressed against the wall by another girl wielding a tuba, pushing it right up to her face, suggesting and intense, unavoidable onslaught of sensory information Girl against wall:Me trying to do a basic ask I've managed Jo do every day Without incident for many years Girl with tuba: EVery organisation on Earth Tuba: AI

Daily life in 2025.

#AI #Tech #JustLetMeBe #FFS

Blue Monday is a piece of crap pseudo science originally part of a travel company's press release to sell holidays.

Can we all try to avoid rewarding marketeers, using this term, which tries to sell goods by parasiting on the back of real mental health campaigns.

I wrote an entire fucking book about how generative models are unsuitable for serious work. Meanwhile tech companies that claim to be serious businesses just ship the garbage and pretend it’s the second coming.

Andrew Norfolk, the retired reporter who uncovered the grooming scandal in Rotherham, has spoken to @thetimes to “put the record straight” about Elon Musk’s wild claims about the PM's time as director of public prosecutions.

The Liverpool trust has been at "opel 4" - extreme pressure - since last Thursday. It is boarding patients on ward corridors (not just A&E) and put 15 patients in a research unit - elective operations have been put on hold today. A grim, unsafe situation for patients and staff.