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The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.

#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.

#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.

#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.

#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.

#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

This is mind boggling:

Death is the policy

"Under RFK Jr., ‘Make America Healthy Again’ means junk science like ‘survival of the fittest.’"

"In one of his own published books, Kennedy indicates that he does not believe in germ theory, instead subscribing to a version of the abandoned 19th century concept that the “miasma” is the source of disease."

#Antivax #Medicine #FakeScience #RFKJr #Vaccines #CDC #MMR #HHS #Miasma #GermTheory #BrainWorm #PublicSafety #Ignorance

https://www.theverge.com/health/661362/rfk-jr-measles-autism

Krasse Geschichte: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-this-is-why-cycling-is-dangerous-in-america 🤯 (YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPduRHBhHI ) 😱 von @notjustbikes – über die seit den 1970ern sehr einflussreichen #Propaganda-Märchen, #Lügen-Bücher und #PseudoWissenschaft des extrem #Fahrrad-feindlichen 🚳 "Radaktivisiten" 🤥 #JohnForester aus #Amerika. 👺 😠 🤮

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forester_(cyclist)

#NotJustBikes #USA #FakeScience #carbrain #Radwege #Fahrradwege #geschützteRadwege #geschützteFahrradwege #Radfahren #Blechterror #Scheißradfahrer #motorisierteGewalt #Mobilitätswende

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/11/21/springer-nature-flags-paper-with-fabricated-reference-to-article-not-written-by-our-cofounder/

This is very meta... essentially someone who is in the business of writing fake papers has written a fake paper criticizing Pubpeer and post publication peer review as being vulnerable to “misuse” and “hyper-skepticism.

#RetractionWatch #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #ScholarlyPublishing #PostPublicationReview #PubPeer #FakeScience #MetaScience #PeerReview #ScienceFraud

Bringt KI die Wissenschaft in Gefahr? - 3sat-Mediathek

https://www.3sat.de/wissen/nano/251104-sendung-bringt-ki-die-wissenschaft-in-gefahr-nano-100.html

"Es gibt immer mehr gefälschte Studien und Fake-Publikationen - auch in Fachzeitschriften. Künstliche Intelligenz macht das Fälschen leichter. "

Interview mit Bernhard Sabel (Dazu: Stockholmer Erklärung
Forschende fordern Reformen im Publikationssystem: https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/forschende-fordern-reformen-im-publikationssystem-7378)

#FakeScience #PaperMills #ImpactFactor #PublishOrPerish #jounsls #ki #ai #3SatNano #StockholmerErklärung #StockholmDeclaration

#DaveFarina: "The Scumbags I've #Debunked"

#Science communicator Dave Farina is back to talk about the #charlatans and #idiots. Buckle up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4j-REoGZmE

#atheist #fakescience #sethandrews #thinkingatheist

The #BlackMarket for #FakeScience Is Growing Faster Than Legitimate Research, Study Warns

A small but growing number of #academics are improperly taking credit for articles, citations, and #authorships, allowing them to appear prestigious without having conducted their own #research.

https://www.wired.com/story/black-market-for-fraudulent-science-growing-faster-than-legitimate-research/

The mall is a delicate ecosystem filled with predators (shops) and prey (consumers). As malls across the US establish rules which remove one of their historic, primary prey from their ecosystem (unsupervised teenagers), it's killing the natural order.

#FakeScience #Silly #Malls #DeepThoughts

Continuing shake-up at #AiG

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/11/continuing-shake-up-at-aig/

#KenHam is getting old. He’s been planning his successor, and I commented on the likely guys being brought to the top. The front runner, once upon a time, was his son-in-law, Bodie Hodge, who I called “a blithering goober”, and I couldn’t imagine him being put in charge of a multi-million dollar corporate entity, which is what #AnswersinGenesis is.

#religion #cult #christian #fakescience

On the cult of #personality and #PersonalityTests that abuse #psychology:

"Sorting The Self", The Hedgehog Review (https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/missing-character/articles/sorting-the-self).

#PersonalityTraits #MBTI #MMPI #Hiring #Pseudoscience #FakeScience #Charlatans