#badscience — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #badscience, aggregated by home.social.
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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").
---#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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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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[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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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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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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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] 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] 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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: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
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@lowqualityfacts @Okanogen Creatine is bullshit. Advertising is definitely not a fediverse feature. #WTF #snakeOil #badScience #malpractice #pseudoScience #woo
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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
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"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.
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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?
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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 -
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 -
#Rocketscience is in the #Bible?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/06/rocket-science-is-in-the-bible/
An engineer named Rob Webb has been inspired by #KenHam to write a book about #space and the Bible. It doesn’t seem to have been written yet — he keeps posting articles on #AiG to tease the book, and he uses the future tense, that the book ‘will include’ stuff that he doesn’t actually explain yet.
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You’re being lied to about “ultra-processed” foods.
“Vegan fake meats linked to heart disease, early death,” the New York Post declared.
There was just one problem: The narrative was totally fake.
Plant-based meats were virtually absent from the study: Just 0.2 percent of calories across the sample came from meat alternatives. People were eating cookies and cake.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/391795/ultra-processed-foods-science-vegan-meat-rfk-maha
#vegan #processedfood #ultraprocessed #food #foodsafety #sciencejournalism #science #badscience
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Is science fiction a form of pseudoscience?
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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
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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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CW: USPol autism Trump RFKJr debunking
Another wonderful, fact-laden rant by Hank Green debunking the Trump/RFKJr autism crap we saw this week. He brings the numbers, including the ones the perpetrators excluded because they'd ruin the credibility of their assertions.
Alas, I don't have much hope that this will change the minds of the people pushing this bad "science". But the rest of us should know this.
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Trump Admin Tells Expecting Mothers To Avoid Tylenol Due To Unproven Link To Autism
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[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.
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[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 MyersThe 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.
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CW: Pseudoscience vs science 3/?
I've seen further classifications being created in attempts to address these and other related issues: #JunkScience and #BadScience.
But they appear to me to just be post hoc additions that cover up the underlieing issues by adding complexity while failing to address the inherent unreliability of many areas of scientific study.
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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.
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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.