Andrew Sparling

The roadmap for turning the NIH into an EBM slush fund and shutting down real science. Kulldorf, in the new public health blog ("journal") co-founded by Bhattacharya.

1: Fund based on who applies 🤔, rather than ideas

2: Give ECR grants. But only to "medical, dental and public health school".

The solute is glucose; the liquid is blood. The “quick answer” is flagging an everyday conversion for which tables and converters are available all over the web. No one asking this question wants anything other than lookup results to those resources.

The cost of failing to mitigate our hospitals for #Covidisairborne. This doesn’t include the cost in lives! Or the cost in long Covid to many staff.

Clean the air!!!!

Kagi search window entry: "70 mg/d in mmol/l". Large-font answer under the heading "Quck Answer": "=milligram per deciliter and millimol per liter are not compatible".

Aggh, @kagi.com, how do I turn off this AI B.S.? The "Quickanswer" is garbage that I don't want!

The mRNA vaccines have saved millions of lives outside the U.S.A. too. This is a serious setback for the platform.

Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter “b” appears in “blueberry”

Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter “b” appears in “blueberry”

Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter “b” appears in “blueberry”

Chat asking GPT-5 to count the number of times the letter “b” appears in “blueberry”

"GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert."

signs of cats who are running for cat mayor of somerville, massachusetts

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named hermes squirmies

a pink sign for a cat running for cat mayor named beatrix. her slogan is “no kings, only princesses”

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named Luna. her slogan is “pro zoomies, chaos, and attention”

there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Oh noes your attempts to use the law to protect your intellectual property would be catastrophic for our systematic program of piracy, which is a cornerstone of our grift! arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

📌

Meanwhile nothing propagandizes more effectively the narrative that Long COVID is just a social construct dreamed up by malingerers than the use of stock photos of models looking tired to portray the condition. Bring back #photojournalism!

Holy crap.

Maybe they were just glancing up at the clock

A panel from The Watchmen comic, showing a character that is remarking three different times where OpenAI stated that the new version exhibited PhD-level intelligence.

To understand comets, talk to people who are used to studying them, not to theoretical cosmologists wittering about things they don’t understand.

Nothing— and I mean nothing— about this decision is more than the bare desire to harm.

Sausages and cheese, German supermarket

the scenario we all feared

of medicalized ideology.

overgeneralize Charcot into a blanket medicalized condescension. I'm agnostic about the existence of conversion disorders. Maybe they exist. But they aren't reliably documented & explicable at the level of chem, cells, tissues, & systems the way LC is. My guesstimate is CD are at least 85% artefacts

The author blithely ignores the thousands of articles on immune-system damage, brain damage, cardiovascular damage, and autoimmune syndromes that COVID causes—work published in fly-by-night publications like JAMA, the Lancet, Cell, and Brain, in favor of lazy, condescending "explanations" that

The excerpt's author isn't denying the existence of acute COVID, but she is clearly minimizing/explaining away PASC, which these days is by far and away the salient problem for patients and public health.

The excerpt is bonehead scientifically illiterate. It's attempting to psychologize post-acute sequelae of COVID, despite the mountain of science establishing pathophysiology. It's the genre of antiscientific claptrap that doesn't pass a laugh test.

Very little information in this story, so it's impossible to guess. There's a lot of repetition, too—I wonder if someone passed it through an LLM.

… retracted, in big red letters on every page, lol. Check out its impact tho: more views than 99% of all Frontiers articles rotflmfo

Yeah, here it is: www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...

What was the journal again?

Good!

That’s roughly my philosophy, but I try to skip the getting angry part and just say begone before I’ve invested enough thought to get my ire up. Generally I’m okay with most things that aren’t obviously idiotic or in bad faith. But If I sense it’s folderol, I say, “bored now,” and I banish it.

Going to be a long time until May for President Pedo! Thanks Colbert.