#badscience — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #badscience, aggregated by home.social.
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walk into the room where fam is watching TV as a character says:
"Momentum is weight times speed"
I stood still in disbelief that Anime would get physics wrong :)
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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
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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
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[P] I'm glad I won't be around for this. This is as dyatopian as it gets. What else can I even say? These poor damn children. Faecal transplants and the Judge Rotenberg Center aren't enough for the neuroenshittified. They have to go the whole hog with eugenics.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #eugenics #enshittification #badscience #horror
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[P] I'm glad I won't be around for this. This is as dyatopian as it gets. What else can I even say? These poor damn children. Faecal transplants and the Judge Rotenberg Center aren't enough for the neuroenshittified. They have to go the whole hog with eugenics.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #eugenics #enshittification #badscience #horror
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[P] This is Nazi scientist shit, the sort of monstrous idiocy that has names like Himmler attached to it. It's nightmare fuel. Why shouodn't a kid be allowed the chance to be autistic? They might want to be moral instead of tribal. The goal of this sort of sickly Nazi-era "research" ia to put the choice in the hands of parents and governments. "So... we have this Brainwash Your Child package!"
#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #eugenics #enshittification #badscience #horror
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[P] This is Nazi scientist shit, the sort of monstrous idiocy that has names like Himmler attached to it. It's nightmare fuel. Why shouodn't a kid be allowed the chance to be autistic? They might want to be moral instead of tribal. The goal of this sort of sickly Nazi-era "research" ia to put the choice in the hands of parents and governments. "So... we have this Brainwash Your Child package!"
#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #eugenics #enshittification #badscience #horror
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[P] I wish I lived in a world where calling them neuroenshittified, tribal, bugmonkey homunculi was entirely u justified. I don't. Autists wouldn't look for ways to casually do a bit of eugenics, because for autism morality occupies the space that tribalism does in the neuroenshittified. When this sort of "research" is done with the obvioua goal of eradicating autism? I should call them worse things.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #eugenics #enshittification #badscience #horror
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[P] I wish I lived in a world where calling them neuroenshittified, tribal, bugmonkey homunculi was entirely u justified. I don't. Autists wouldn't look for ways to casually do a bit of eugenics, because for autism morality occupies the space that tribalism does in the neuroenshittified. When this sort of "research" is done with the obvioua goal of eradicating autism? I should call them worse things.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #eugenics #enshittification #badscience #horror
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[P] This is why I can't ever truat the neuroenshittified, they look at divergent brain functionality and they see it as a flaw. We have words for that: Dumb. Tribal. Bigotry. And then the neuroenshittified eant to fix it because "Unga gabunga! Yoo am not like US! Abooga!" And we have a word for that, too: Eugenics. They just keep falling back on tribal bigotry and eugenics. "Ooga! Hiver-arkee am GOD."
#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #eugenics #enshittification #badscience #horror
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[P] This is why I can't ever truat the neuroenshittified, they look at divergent brain functionality and they see it as a flaw. We have words for that: Dumb. Tribal. Bigotry. And then the neuroenshittified eant to fix it because "Unga gabunga! Yoo am not like US! Abooga!" And we have a word for that, too: Eugenics. They just keep falling back on tribal bigotry and eugenics. "Ooga! Hiver-arkee am GOD."
#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #eugenics #enshittification #badscience #horror
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[P] So, I want to talk about this a bit.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #eugenics #enshittification #badscience #horror
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[P] So, I want to talk about this a bit.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #eugenics #enshittification #badscience #horror
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I've been criticised for projects that showed no effect or improvement, by the media and some in HMT.
They were happy to criticise the original methodology I was responsible for publishing, so we ran six strands of work looking at alternatives (funded by the EU). The result? The one we were already using was the best available.
They acted like we were wasting their time and didn't report it.It is worse when they cherry pick drug studies. All negative studies should be used.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/washington-watch/121912
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I've been criticised for projects that showed no effect or improvement, by the media and some in HMT.
They were happy to criticise the original methodology I was responsible for publishing, so we ran six strands of work looking at alternatives (funded by the EU). The result? The one we were already using was the best available.
They acted like we were wasting their time and didn't report it.It is worse when they cherry pick drug studies. All negative studies should be used.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/washington-watch/121912
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Dodgy data indeed!
"The paper is currently being cited on social media as evidence that COVID-19 vaccination causes permanent eye damage. Before drawing such conclusions ..."
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Dodgy data indeed!
"The paper is currently being cited on social media as evidence that COVID-19 vaccination causes permanent eye damage. Before drawing such conclusions ..."
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The book I'm reading at the moment has a couple of entertaining phrases in it:
"[...] she understood how thin atmosphere, low humidity and weak air pressure could have this effect [...]"
Both thin atmosphere *and* weak air pressure? Together? Impossible!
There's also a passage where the same (human) protagonist comments on the smell of some methane...
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The book I'm reading at the moment has a couple of entertaining phrases in it:
"[...] she understood how thin atmosphere, low humidity and weak air pressure could have this effect [...]"
Both thin atmosphere *and* weak air pressure? Together? Impossible!
There's also a passage where the same (human) protagonist comments on the smell of some methane...
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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
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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
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[P] I've been reading a cathartic article where scientists are separated into for or against camps, flattening discourse into arrogance. It surprised me to see how many said that the truth is that we absolutrly don't know, with only slight probablistic weights until we have a body of evidence. Yes, good! I wish religious dark matter seekers and faecal matter transplant acolytes held this degree of dignified credibility.
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[P] I've been reading a cathartic article where scientists are separated into for or against camps, flattening discourse into arrogance. It surprised me to see how many said that the truth is that we absolutrly don't know, with only slight probablistic weights until we have a body of evidence. Yes, good! I wish religious dark matter seekers and faecal matter transplant acolytes held this degree of dignified credibility.
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[P] Thing is? I know tribalism is behind the desire to "cure" autism, but how do atrocities like forced faecal transplants on children and the Judge Rotenberg Center not only have funding, but keep practising? It's because it isn't just tribalism, it's tribalism and greed. The two big vices of the vast allistic majority. So that's two major sources of dopamine. "You'll be more like Us when we fix you, and you'll be more profitable."
#psychology #actuallyautistic #latestagecapitalism #badscience
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[P] "Let's fix your autistic brain with shit transplants so you want cars not dragons!"
Fffffffffffff.
Why is humanity synonymous with atrocity?
#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #latestagecapitalism #dystopia #horror #badscience
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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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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) -
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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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) -
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
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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
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[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.
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[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.
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I knew many years ago that his views aren't as rational as he wants to believe.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/10/mistaking-ai-behaviour-for-conscious-being
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I knew many years ago that his views aren't as rational as he wants to believe.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/10/mistaking-ai-behaviour-for-conscious-being
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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."
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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."
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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One more way to combat fake research:
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/04/06/data-duplications-errors-open-repositories-markus-englund/
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One more way to combat fake research:
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/04/06/data-duplications-errors-open-repositories-markus-englund/
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[P] There's a special quality to humanity. Sapience sat atop the dumbest instincts in the animal kingdom (hands down, bar none).
Problem: Overshoot and Capitalism are killing us. We are rapidly running out of water.
Real solution: Just fucking breed less and consume less, be sustainable like other animals already are.
Human solution: Let's build a moon base to mine moon ice, and fling it back at the earth!#psychology #actuallyautistic #humanity #science #badscience #justplainstupid
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[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.
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[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.
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[P] See, the belief in the face of an ongoing absence of evidence strikes me as just another typie repetition of aether and phlogiston. If the perspective had been "I don't know!" then perhaps we'd be exploring better alternatives than dork matter/energy. That isn't very typie though, is it? We have to wait for them to exhaust themselves, only for those same typies to deny they had any part in it later. Yay science.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #badscience #darkmatter
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[P] I mean, this is why I don't like theology or atheism either, as both represent absolute beliefs rather than a healthy dose of "I don't know." I might be falling into the Dunning-Kruger trap, but "I don't know." feels like the healthiest thing to say. A healthy "I don't know." would've avoided the farcical, comical, clownish hubris of aether and phlogiston, we would've learned about tectonics sooner, too.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #badscience #darkmatter
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[P] It's like typies have to believe in the church of science or they'll be eaten by space sharks or some shit. It feels like the addle-brained tribalism of a primitive mind to me. "US must know ALL! If US does not know ALL, the evil doomsharks from the great black THEM-OTHER of SPAYCE will eat us!" It angers me a lot. I don't like absolute faith in something, it's the greatest of follies. Space sharks won't eat you.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #badscience #darkmatter
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[P] We have the power to shrug and say that—without evidence—we just really don't know. It's fine. There's so very much I don't know. I'd say what i know counts next to nothing, an infinitesimal value contrasted against the myriad possibilities of existence. But that isn't typies, typies feel like they have to delude themselves into believing they know, they can't admit they know almost nothing too. So here we are.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #badscience #darkmatter
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[P] Bloody typies and their god-fearing inability to admit that they simply don't know has been anathema to science for so long as there's been science. A nonsense assumption peddled by charlatans is accepted because typies can't stop clutching rheir magic god crystals, manically babbling about the terrors of space. It's very tiresome. Carl Sagan called this out, too. It's an ongoing pathology. We can simply not know!
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #badscience #darkmatter
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[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?
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2012 is still one of the top unintentional comedies of all time.
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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
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Is science fiction a form of pseudoscience?
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: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