Derek Lowe

Absolutely. Everyone with a working brain and a working heart is getting reallllly familiar with this feeling.

As many have said, the starting demand should be to totally abolish ICE. You work down from there. If you work down from this instead there won’t be much left.

These are all totally reasonable. My hope is that when the Republicans reject them - as they are very likely to - that Schumer and Jeffries just walk out until they’re met.

My fear is instead that they’ll use this list as a starting point and negotiate a lot of it away before caving.

We shouldn't put all "AI-based tools" in the same bag. Grammar editing, yes. Translation tools, yes. All with some checks. It's not the same as using GenAI to create text from prompts.

Farooq Sher is a papermilling fraudster at Nottingham Trent University in UK. He also runs a predatory conference scam. Farooq the Crook even sent lawyers to threaten me.
forbetterscience.com/tag/farooq-s...
forbetterscience.com/2022/10/17/n...

I would be very glad to see examples of this, if anyone knows of some.

FDA Removes Warning Page About Dangerous Autism Treatments Autism researchers question motivations for latest HHS changes, including the new IACC

I am not exaggerating: Removing this webpage warning against fake autism "treatments" will kill autistic people.
www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

I get to review journal articles sometimes. Can confirm, it’s getting pretty sloppy.

It astonishes me that people ask these things scientific questions at all. You should see what the citations look like in a paper generated by a plagiarism robot. Utterly worthless.

First author Farooq Sher is well-known :) at least in the pubpeer crowd. Here is a collage from some of his best work! pubpeer.com/search?q=Far...

Bailed out of Twitter (as it was) a few years ago and ended up here!

What the Literature is Filling Up With

Welcome, piles of slop filling up the journals with clouds of useless wordy garbage. Case in point:

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power.

They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

A Complex Cancer-Alzheimer's Connection

It seems that cancer has a preventative effect on Alzheimer's - but turning that phenomenon into something useful is not going to be straightforward:

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

my two asks for electeds (reasonable ones, imo):

1) what can you demand in this current budget fight to free the hundreds of kids in DHS concentration camps?

2) will you pledge to dismantle DHS, abolish the paramilitaries, and close the concentration camps for good, once democrats are in power?

I don't know if non-lawyers understand how insane this statement is. I honestly can't think of anything remotely comparable in non-lawyer speak. I guess the closest would be a surgeon saying "Imagine if I had to wash my HANDS before doing surgery!"

BERNIE SANDERS: Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism

SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism

A ‘shadow CDC’ is scrambling to fill gaps in public health data Dozens of routinely updated CDC databases have gone quiet. Here’s what states and medical societies are doing to preserve U.S. public health

Under RFK, Jr., the CDC's authority has crumbled: it is no longer updating dozens of health databases, and has abandoned vaccine guidelines. But states and governors are trying to fill the void, @laurenjyoung.bsky.social writes @scifri.bsky.social: www.scientificamerican.com/article/stat...

I often wondered how the French aristocrats could be so clueless as to the danger their cruel indifference was putting them in before the French Revolution but now I get to watch the same thing in real time

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

I fully believe Trump will smash the authoritarianism button harder and harder as he feels the midterms wipe out approaching, I'm less sure that doing so will prevent or mitigate said wipe out

A contents page showing chapters, each with a list of the topics that come up every few paragraphs.

“The Big Bonanza” (1876) by Mark Twain’s contemporary Dan DeQuille has this style:

Did A.I. Take Your Job? Or Was Your Employer ‘A.I.-Washing’?

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was suspicious, re: Dow and AI-related layoffs

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/b...

The last time he started talking like this, his allies minimized the risks and we ended up with January 6. This time we must take him literally and seriously. These comments are a five-alarm fire for democracy. In a functioning republic, he would be impeached and removed from office today.

The 2025 FDA Approvals

The 2025 FDA approvals: one count is holding up fine, another maybe not:

Lysenkoism 2.0 continues: Podcast Jay wants to turn NIH into the “research arm” of MAHA NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya has recently said that he wants to transform the NIH into the "research arm of MAHA" and a "central driver of the MAHA agenda." Lysenkoism 2.0 continues apace at NIH.

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya has recently said that he wants to transform the NIH into the “research arm of MAHA” and a “central driver of the MAHA agenda.” Lysenkoism 2.0 continues apace at NIH. sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-podcast...

We're gonna keep doing The Work. We're going to tear down everything he builds, build back everything he tears down, and whatever day he dies will be a national holiday for centuries.

Other people: "Don’t ask me about my political opinions of the President, because I’d rather not answer."

Me to my daughter, yelling down from our house's roof: "If I die, tell your grandkids I hated Donald Trump."

Trump would like there not to be! But it’s not up to him, as a court ruling this week reminded him. Elections are run by the states.

They’ll try all the bullshit they can think of, though, for sure. Got to anticipate this and stay alert. . .

Yeah, this structure is basically too stupid to have been produced without genAI help, isn’t it?