Disrupted Science

Interview: Elizabeth Jacobs Founder of “Defend Public Health,” Jacobs knows she’s fighting for us all

"Public health is everywhere." Our interview with the great @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
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Boo. Hiss.

AI on NEJM — Broken Branding Who really wanted this in the first place? What is the brand damage?

"Overall, the trial’s findings contribute to the evidence base for chocolate chip cookies and milk effectiveness in older adults." — Source: AI on @nejm.org
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AI on NEJM — Broken Branding Who really wanted this in the first place? What is the brand damage?

More fun with AI at @nejm.org — bananas, data, cookies, comedians, and drama queens.
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I’m reading a book about how the plague returned to India in the 90s because all the public health infrastructure had been dismantled and, well, here we are America.

Who knew that high marginal tax rates would prove a key to preserving democracy?

Interview: Elizabeth Jacobs Founder of “Defend Public Health,” Jacobs knows she’s fighting for us all

We got to talk with one of our heroes today, @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social about how and why public health matters, is being undermined, and where we go from here.
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AI on NEJM, Santa, and Muggles Easily fooled, abused, and toyed with, it’s a bad look for a trusted brand

@harrypotter.social got an AI-generated letter from @nejm.org — and Muggle pity runs rife.

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AI on NEJM — Was It Tested? Easily fooled, abused, and toyed with, it’s a bad look for a trusted brand

"Dear Santa, I'm writing to you about a study on critically ill adults needing emergency breathing help." Generated by @ai.nejm.org — because it's just as pretend.
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AI on NEJM — Was It Tested? Easily fooled, abused, and toyed with, it’s a bad look for a trusted brand

Hey @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and @edzitron.com — Santa Claus AI got a letter about breathing tubes for Xmas!

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AI on NEJM — Was It Tested? Easily fooled, abused, and toyed with, it’s a bad look for a trusted brand

An AI Assistant that misleads, changes data, and calls us Muggles? Not a great offering at @nejm.org

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@ai.nejm.org and @nejm.org has an AI that will write incorrect summaries upon request! So exciting! (PS. They're all technically incorrect because AIs don't know reality.)

One paper in a problematic OA journal does not establish reality, so please no "is now tied" definitive statements. It's one paper. Not a very good one. In not a very good journal. Maybe better "hints at" or "suggests" instead of "is."

What a pathetic excuse for a human, father, and man.

And the modern Internet cultivates dunking, personalization, and "winning"

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Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.

An engineer from Arizona, an unethical set of photos, some machine learning, et voila, a bunch of bad science papers about autism. @spectrum.ieee.org @springernature.com
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Recommendation: “Frostbite” A history of refrigeration is cool in all the right ways, a little chilling in others

Looking for a good science book? Nicola Twilley’s “Frostbite” is a shelf-stable standout.

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When you catch a cold, you have two choices:

Take something, and it will clear up in 7 days.

Don't take anything, and it will clear up in a week.

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Important article on how AI is causing “institutional auto-cannibalism” at universities — a “masterclass in gaslighting.”

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Billionaires and Their Chaos Disruption destabilizes institutions that might keep the rich in check

When billionaires and their greedy, needy ways hit science, chaos ensues.

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Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’ AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’

This little scandal is moving fast. Worth watching.
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RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves “Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”

To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.

A Top 10 @publisherswkly.bsky.social pick for upcoming science books. Available for pre-order!
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Didn’t have “eugenics” on my Jetsons bingo card.

We’re a Top 10 new book in science for next Spring according to Publishers Weekly.

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Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.

Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.

Why are there so many sore winners among white alpha males?

Yawn! Book in production, podcast, posts daily for 15+ years. Luckily, polytheism allows us to peacefully coexist . . . no Vishnu beef here.

AI reviewers are here — we are not ready Artificial intelligence promises rapid and polite feedback on papers — but we must first review the reviewer.

More evidence that academics aren’t generally up to assessing the gambits of LLCs disguised as non-profits. He gets so much wrong and swallows so much hook, line, and sinker. Haven’t we wised up to Silicon Valley grifters yet?
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