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Journal Retracts Controversial Study Claiming Keto Diets Don’t Clog Arteries—

But the study's authors are still promoting their questionable-data study on social media (e.g., "X").
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#MyThoughts -
Lol... eating a bunch of greasy bacon won't clog arteries over the long run if it's part of a keto diet 😉
(see how that makes no sense - don't take that seriously, plz, it's bad medical advice)

#health #nutrition #BadScience
#BadScienceIsntScience
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https://gizmodo.com/journal-retracts-controversial-study-claiming-keto-diets-dont-clog-arteries-2000762661

Journal Retracts Controversial Study Claiming Keto Diets Don’t Clog Arteries—

But the study's authors are still promoting their questionable-data study on social media (e.g., "X").
---

#MyThoughts -
Lol... eating a bunch of greasy bacon won't clog arteries over the long run if it's part of a keto diet 😉
(see how that makes no sense - don't take that seriously, plz, it's bad medical advice)

#health #nutrition #BadScience
#BadScienceIsntScience
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https://gizmodo.com/journal-retracts-controversial-study-claiming-keto-diets-dont-clog-arteries-2000762661

Journal Retracts Controversial Study Claiming Keto Diets Don’t Clog Arteries—

But the study's authors are still promoting their questionable-data study on social media (e.g., "X").
---

#MyThoughts -
Lol... eating a bunch of greasy bacon won't clog arteries over the long run if it's part of a keto diet 😉
(see how that makes no sense - don't take that seriously, plz, it's bad medical advice)

#health #nutrition #BadScience
#BadScienceIsntScience
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https://gizmodo.com/journal-retracts-controversial-study-claiming-keto-diets-dont-clog-arteries-2000762661

Journal Retracts Controversial Study Claiming Keto Diets Don’t Clog Arteries—

But the study's authors are still promoting their questionable-data study on social media (e.g., "X").
---

#MyThoughts -
Lol... eating a bunch of greasy bacon won't clog arteries over the long run if it's part of a keto diet 😉
(see how that makes no sense - don't take that seriously, plz, it's bad medical advice)

#health #nutrition #BadScience
#BadScienceIsntScience
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https://gizmodo.com/journal-retracts-controversial-study-claiming-keto-diets-dont-clog-arteries-2000762661

Journal Retracts Controversial Study Claiming Keto Diets Don’t Clog Arteries—

But the study's authors are still promoting their questionable-data study on social media (e.g., "X").
---

#MyThoughts -
Lol... eating a bunch of greasy bacon won't clog arteries over the long run if it's part of a keto diet 😉
(see how that makes no sense - don't take that seriously, plz, it's bad medical advice)

#health #nutrition #BadScience
#BadScienceIsntScience
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https://gizmodo.com/journal-retracts-controversial-study-claiming-keto-diets-dont-clog-arteries-2000762661

Busting the Biggest Myths in Neuroscience | Dr Dean Burnett | Instant Genius podcast

https://youtu.be/JQYtTcNSHak?si=0OBLlCwdJtoO4HN-

Dean Burnett answers quickfire questions about familiar brain myths, for the Instant Genius Podcast

#Brains #Myths #BadScience #Youtube #Podcast

Busting the Biggest Myths in Neuroscience | Dr Dean Burnett | Instant Genius podcast

https://youtu.be/JQYtTcNSHak?si=0OBLlCwdJtoO4HN-

Dean Burnett answers quickfire questions about familiar brain myths, for the Instant Genius Podcast

#Brains #Myths #BadScience #Youtube #Podcast

Busting the Biggest Myths in Neuroscience | Dr Dean Burnett | Instant Genius podcast

https://youtu.be/JQYtTcNSHak?si=0OBLlCwdJtoO4HN-

Dean Burnett answers quickfire questions about familiar brain myths, for the Instant Genius Podcast

#Brains #Myths #BadScience #Youtube #Podcast

Busting the Biggest Myths in Neuroscience | Dr Dean Burnett | Instant Genius podcast

https://youtu.be/JQYtTcNSHak?si=0OBLlCwdJtoO4HN-

Dean Burnett answers quickfire questions about familiar brain myths, for the Instant Genius Podcast

#Brains #Myths #BadScience #Youtube #Podcast

Busting the Biggest Myths in Neuroscience | Dr Dean Burnett | Instant Genius podcast

https://youtu.be/JQYtTcNSHak?si=0OBLlCwdJtoO4HN-

Dean Burnett answers quickfire questions about familiar brain myths, for the Instant Genius Podcast

#Brains #Myths #BadScience #Youtube #Podcast

[P] It's the lobster thing all over again...

https://www.sciencealert.com/crickets-respond-to-injuries-in-a-way-that-suggests-they-feel-pain

This is just quintessential allistic exceptionalism. The question ehould always be whether X doesn't Y rather than if X does Y. Really, wondering if insects or lobsters feel pain is unintelligent exceptionalism. They have the nerves and receptors for it, so high probability for pain experience.

But it wasn't so long ago that autists and black people didn't feel pain.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #badscience #exceptionalism

More #BadScience. This time #LLMs not just pushing citations from their own work.

"We find a sharp rise in non-existent references following widespread LLM adoption, with a conservative estimate of 146,932 hallucinated citations in 2025 alone."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

Busting the Biggest Myths in Neuroscience | Dr Dean Burnett | Instant Genius podcast

https://youtu.be/JQYtTcNSHak?si=0OBLlCwdJtoO4HN-

Dean Burnett answers quickfire questions about familiar brain myths, for the Instant Genius Podcast

#Brains #Myths #BadScience #Youtube #Podcast

Busting the Biggest Myths in Neuroscience | Dr Dean Burnett | Instant Genius podcast

https://youtu.be/JQYtTcNSHak?si=0OBLlCwdJtoO4HN-

Dean Burnett answers quickfire questions about familiar brain myths, for the Instant Genius Podcast

#Brains #Myths #BadScience #Youtube #Podcast

Busting the Biggest Myths in Neuroscience | Dr Dean Burnett | Instant Genius podcast

https://youtu.be/JQYtTcNSHak?si=0OBLlCwdJtoO4HN-

Dean Burnett answers quickfire questions about familiar brain myths, for the Instant Genius Podcast

#Brains #Myths #BadScience #Youtube #Podcast

Busting the Biggest Myths in Neuroscience | Dr Dean Burnett | Instant Genius podcast

https://youtu.be/JQYtTcNSHak?si=0OBLlCwdJtoO4HN-

Dean Burnett answers quickfire questions about familiar brain myths, for the Instant Genius Podcast

#Brains #Myths #BadScience #Youtube #Podcast

Busting the Biggest Myths in Neuroscience | Dr Dean Burnett | Instant Genius podcast

https://youtu.be/JQYtTcNSHak?si=0OBLlCwdJtoO4HN-

Dean Burnett answers quickfire questions about familiar brain myths, for the Instant Genius Podcast

#Brains #Myths #BadScience #Youtube #Podcast

Busting the Biggest Myths in Neuroscience | Dr Dean Burnett | Instant Genius podcast

https://youtu.be/JQYtTcNSHak?si=0OBLlCwdJtoO4HN-

Dean Burnett answers quickfire questions about familiar brain myths, for the Instant Genius Podcast

#Brains #Myths #BadScience #Youtube #Podcast

Busting the Biggest Myths in Neuroscience | Dr Dean Burnett | Instant Genius podcast

https://youtu.be/JQYtTcNSHak?si=0OBLlCwdJtoO4HN-

Dean Burnett answers quickfire questions about familiar brain myths, for the Instant Genius Podcast

#Brains #Myths #BadScience #Youtube #Podcast

One more way to combat fake research:

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/04/06/data-duplications-errors-open-repositories-markus-englund/

#BadScience #FakeData

One more way to combat fake research:

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/04/06/data-duplications-errors-open-repositories-markus-englund/

#BadScience #FakeData

One more way to combat fake research:

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/04/06/data-duplications-errors-open-repositories-markus-englund/

#BadScience #FakeData

One more way to combat fake research:

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/04/06/data-duplications-errors-open-repositories-markus-englund/

#BadScience #FakeData

[P] I still like the mirror test as the purest example of neurotypical nonsense. It exhibits such limited thinking to not reason that: i.) an animal might not be narcissistic enough to be bothered by a mark (it's forcing a vain human behavior on a non-human animal); ii.) that any mirror-related behaviors might not be what humans think they are from a human perspective; and iii.) human senses are not equivocable with non-human animal senses.

#psychology #animals #science #badscience

[P] Another frustration with typie group-selves is bad science. I'm convinced that the assumption of dark matter is nonsense. I say assumption as it hasn't the wherewithal to be classified as hypothesis or theory, dark matter continues to be blatantly unscientific—because it isn't about science, but rather cults of bloody personality. There's so much dumb hubris and following along in this reoccuring mess.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #badscience #darkmatter

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Nice one, Wes

Going to get Jordan Peterson to address officials overseeing dietary guidelines next? Have Jeremy Clarkson set the environmental agenda?

Might as well do at this point. They've all sold loads of books too, that's all the qualifications you need, right?

#socialmediaban #badscience

2012 is still one of the top unintentional comedies of all time.

#Movies #BadScience

This graphic is floating around the right-wing Internet... Obviously it's insane, but even so, I have some questions for people who might believe it.

(For now, anyone with half a brain and a basic knowledge of science, graphs and politics, you will have to suspend your brain and accept the chart as something legitimate instead of a paint splat with random words on it.)

1. Has the right finally disavowed itself of Antivaxxers? I mean, great, but that's news to me! I see they are still keeping the Climate Change Deniers though.

2. I am not sure why these liberals would be calling Social Democrats, Social Liberals and Liberal Democrats "fascists" because that's just not linguistically or academically correct, it's a semantic train wreck and a logical fallacy all on one track.

3. "Don't tread on me" - I know the Libertarians are often nuts, but I don't think people are calling them fascists. In fact they are the ones calling the right fascists at the moment, aint'cha Ron Paul!

4. Fascism (or what it calls the "Lunatic Fringe") is apparently immune from being called Fascist by the anti-fascists. I have no idea how that one even works.

5. How is "Science, Intelligence and Logic" in the same camp as Climate Deniers, Neocons (the Religions Nationalists), and the Alt-Right?

6. The Neocons and the Alt-Right hate each other, why are they next to each other in the same segment?

7. How come Anti-fascists are not calling Fundamentalism and Corporatism "fascists" as well?

8. Why is "Antifa" in the maroon slice? Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Reagan, Eisenhower and many other heroes of the 20th Century were proudly AntiFa, and I don't think they were Socialists or Communists. I’m guessing Statism’s there just to make it look clever, because it doesn't fit at all.

9. WHERE ARE THE POOR ANARCHISTS?

10. Do the colours mean anything?

#ArseGravy #Politics #AntiFa #Antifascist #BadScience #Memes #Graphs #AntiVaxx #ClimateChange #USA #USPol #Europe #WW2

Is science fiction a form of pseudoscience?
#sciencefiction #pseudoscience #crackpots #literature #fiction #badscience

:InDanger: However they also say:

R. A. Carlos recently reported on an alarming five-fold increase in the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) on the island of Guam from 2016 to 2022. He reviewed 95 studies and concluded that the increased trend paralleled the widespread exposure of young children to microplastics.

and the citation given is to the abstract of a conference presentation which ACTUALLY says the author reviewed 95 studies for "neurotoxic effects of microplastics on other species, including fish, mice, mollusks, nematodes, crustaceans and chicken" not to find fricken autistic crustaceans but to find neurotoxicity.

But autism definitely isn't neurotoxicity in general, and probably isn't in any specific way.

So what we're left with is an observation of 5x ASD and plastics exposure on Guam. Is it not likely that whatever societal changes increased plastic use to skyrocket 5x also caused other seismic shifts in behaviour and exposure and - dare I guess - autism testing?

#autism #microplastics #nanoplastics #badJournalism #badScience #health #news #GlobeAndMail

Trump Admin Tells Expecting Mothers To Avoid Tylenol Due To Unproven Link To Autism

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/23/trump-admin-tells-expecting-mothers-to-avoid-tylenol-due-to-unproven-link-to-autism/

[P] I had to search around a bit for it, but...

https://tritonstation.com/2024/11/12/massive-galaxies-at-high-redshift-we-told-you-so/

This study brought MoND into a clarity that dark matter lacks. In reading the article and comments, vis-a-vis dark matter there's a lot of talk of religion, stories, and foibles. I love a good story more than most, but proofs SHOULD NOT require stories. It's a very lemming thing to want to shallowly, reductively, romantically storify everything.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #badscience

[P] I feel a differentiating factor of science and the greedy desperation of faith is "fitting in" and its zealotry. I feel lemmings have tainted science, that way. In my opinion, evidence can speak for itself. In the absence of evidence? You have belief. Now, one may wish to prove this belief—and there're scientists who'll seek evodence to do so. And then there're lemmings who'll weaponise "fitting in" and "the rizz."

#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #badscience

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#Kibitzing a bad #creationist #debate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDUDWzOJCkM
PZ Myers

The Twin Cities #CreationScience Association sponsored a debate between #BrianLauer, creationist, and #MarkReid, sensible normal human being. Reid was fine, but Lauer's arguments, or lack thereof, compelled me to criticize him.

#science #creationism #ID #evolution #badscience

Stop lying about what ChatGPT does to our brains!

https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/stop-lying-about-what-chatgpt-does

When #AI is being used, to create absolute nonsense about the effects of AI, which is then shared with millions of people, for no discernible reason... we're in a very weird situation.

#ChatGPT #BadScience #Misinformation

Stop lying about what ChatGPT does to our brains!

https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/stop-lying-about-what-chatgpt-does

When #AI is being used, to create absolute nonsense about the effects of AI, which is then shared with millions of people, for no discernible reason... we're in a very weird situation.

#ChatGPT #BadScience #Misinformation

There's a narrative in some circles that COVID-19 restrictions went too far — and some of those people look to Sweden's "let it rip" approach to support their arguments, including the authors of a new book, "In COVID’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us." For the American Prospect, Ryan Cooper explains why the Swedish example is an unhelpful one, because of the country's household structures, world-class public health care and high-trust population, and the fact that the country did actually implement some fairly strict COVID-19 measures. "We already know what happened when COVID was allowed to run wild in a country without any of Sweden’s advantages," Cooper writes. "That was what unfolded in Peru, a weak state with a rickety hospital system that was unable to implement its attempted lockdown. It was a charnel house, with about 220,000 official COVID deaths — almost three times the rate of Sweden, or more than seven times that of New Zealand — and that is almost certainly a large underestimate."

https://flip.it/Y1Onzt

#Health #Medicine #COVID #Sweden #Books #Science #BadScience @bookstodon

"Abort! Re-route! orbital maneuvering. I need pitch, roll! Yaw! 10mL bursts!"

I had to re-play this bit of emergency gibberish a couple times to really appreciate how crap it was. Maybe Red Planet is just a piece of software that someone vibe-coded in the Matrix.

#BadScience

@lowqualityfacts @Okanogen Creatine is bullshit. Advertising is definitely not a fediverse feature. #WTF #snakeOil #badScience #malpractice #pseudoScience #woo

@oscarjiminy

"I was recently helping a new client get set up ... And seeing it all again through fresh eyes?"
&
"If we want this thing to thrive we have to face the user experience sins head-on".

Rare skills indeed.

Stepping down from the expert-podium and engaging directly with how things are being used by humans is so difficult.

cf #Linux replacing MS Windows

(A lot of #BadScience has resulted from similar failings. Book 1986 #AConspiracyOfCells
Article 2001)
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(00)00402-2/abstract

Well folks, it seems this page is real:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/

#COVID #Whitehouse #USPol #Politics #Health #Broken #Science #BadScience #conspiracytheories #Shitty #Government #RFKJr #QAnon #Insanity #Misinformation #Disinformation #News also #Sorry #Halloween #Pumpkin

Been wondering about Masking and the repeated claims that gold standard, random assignment, double blind trials are needed before N95 masks should be issued to healthcare workers.

Anyone seen gold standard, random assignment, double blind trials on skin diving masks?

Or is it ok to rely on physics and engineering in such circumstances?

What's the term for demanding ridiculous sorts of evidence?

#Masking #GoldStandard #CherryPicking #BadScience

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Tauchen1.jpg

"Scientists on panel defending ultra-processed foods linked to food firms"

A panel briefing which, as the Grauniad helpfully points out, was organised by the RCP/Furedi-cult front known as the Science Media Centre.

Shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

#UPF #BadScience #RCP #Spiked #FurediCult #SMC

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/28/scientists-on-panel-defending-ultra-processed-foods-linked-to-food-firms

We've seen what ⁨#EBM⁩ ⁨#EvidenceBasedMedicine⁩ produces;
on #Masking with #TomJefferson⁩ assisted by #Cochrane,
the decades of infectious respiratory disease research that poo-hooed #AirborneTransmission, and,
the RWNJ #CassReport⁩ on care for transgender kids.

Lots of bad stuff resulting from fetishising ⁨#RandomControlledTrials⁩ ⁨#RCTs⁩ as the only research that can be relied on.

Will we hear from Trumpists that there's no RCTs that support action on #ClimateChange?

#BadScience

Exposing the scam of color blindness "correcting" glasses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QQtOv2PlOE
A great documentary that reveal poor science papers, unsubstantiated claims and conflict of interest with the authors. The companies selling them use unethical marketing with undisclosed sponsorships of social media influencers.
#colorblindness #scam #documentary #skepticism #scientificskepticism #badscience #retractionwatch #scamwarning #scamalert #protanomaly #deuteranomaly #tritanomaly #colorglasses #enchroma

Exposing the scam of color blindness "correcting" glasses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QQtOv2PlOE
A great documentary that reveal poor science papers, unsubstantiated claims and conflict of interest with the authors. The companies selling them use unethical marketing with undisclosed sponsorships of social media influencers.
#colorblindness #scam #documentary #skepticism #scientificskepticism #badscience #retractionwatch #scamwarning #scamalert #protanomaly #deuteranomaly #tritanomaly #colorglasses #enchroma

Exposing the scam of color blindness "correcting" glasses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QQtOv2PlOE
A great documentary that reveal poor science papers, unsubstantiated claims and conflict of interest with the authors. The companies selling them use unethical marketing with undisclosed sponsorships of social media influencers.
#colorblindness #scam #documentary #skepticism #scientificskepticism #badscience #retractionwatch #scamwarning #scamalert #protanomaly #deuteranomaly #tritanomaly #colorglasses #enchroma

Exposing the scam of color blindness "correcting" glasses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QQtOv2PlOE
A great documentary that reveal poor science papers, unsubstantiated claims and conflict of interest with the authors. The companies selling them use unethical marketing with undisclosed sponsorships of social media influencers.
#colorblindness #scam #documentary #skepticism #scientificskepticism #badscience #retractionwatch #scamwarning #scamalert #protanomaly #deuteranomaly #tritanomaly #colorglasses #enchroma