#junkscience — Public Fediverse posts

#nu.nl brengt een artikel over #vapes en #esigaretten met betrekking tot een onderzoek aangaande de #carcinogeniteit ervan. Ik heb diverse malen geprobeerd in de lezers response om de kritieken op dit onderzoek aan te geven, maar door de NU.nl #censuur komen deze berichten niet door voor het publiek. Dus doen we het maar hier: Dit is het artikel van nu.nl

Het NU.nl artikel

https://www.nu.nl/gezondheid/6390983/vapen-veroorzaakt-waarschijnlijk-kanker-maken-dezelfde-fout-als-met-sigaretten.html#nujij

Mijn inbreng was de #commentaren op het aangehaalde onderzoek in dit artikel door nu.nl, van Science Media Centre, namelijk

#debunked via Science Media Centre

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-qualitative-risk-assessment-on-the-carcinogenicity-of-e-cigarettes/

Het beeld over de #juistheid van het aangehaalde onderzoek komt dan toch echt op een ander podium te staan. Nu.nl heeft meer met sensatie dan met feiten, blijkbaar..

#science #nicotine #research #debunkend #junkscience

#nu.nl brengt een artikel over #vapes en #esigaretten met betrekking tot een onderzoek aangaande de #carcinogeniteit ervan. Ik heb diverse malen geprobeerd in de lezers response om de kritieken op dit onderzoek aan te geven, maar door de NU.nl #censuur komen deze berichten niet door voor het publiek. Dus doen we het maar hier: Dit is het artikel van nu.nl

Het NU.nl artikel

https://www.nu.nl/gezondheid/6390983/vapen-veroorzaakt-waarschijnlijk-kanker-maken-dezelfde-fout-als-met-sigaretten.html#nujij

Mijn inbreng was de #commentaren op het aangehaalde onderzoek in dit artikel door nu.nl, van Science Media Centre, namelijk

#debunked via Science Media Centre

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-qualitative-risk-assessment-on-the-carcinogenicity-of-e-cigarettes/

Het beeld over de #juistheid van het aangehaalde onderzoek komt dan toch echt op een ander podium te staan. Nu.nl heeft meer met sensatie dan met feiten, blijkbaar..

#science #nicotine #research #debunkend #junkscience

#nu.nl brengt een artikel over #vapes en #esigaretten met betrekking tot een onderzoek aangaande de #carcinogeniteit ervan. Ik heb diverse malen geprobeerd in de lezers response om de kritieken op dit onderzoek aan te geven, maar door de NU.nl #censuur komen deze berichten niet door voor het publiek. Dus doen we het maar hier: Dit is het artikel van nu.nl

Het NU.nl artikel

https://www.nu.nl/gezondheid/6390983/vapen-veroorzaakt-waarschijnlijk-kanker-maken-dezelfde-fout-als-met-sigaretten.html#nujij

Mijn inbreng was de #commentaren op het aangehaalde onderzoek in dit artikel door nu.nl, van Science Media Centre, namelijk

#debunked via Science Media Centre

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-qualitative-risk-assessment-on-the-carcinogenicity-of-e-cigarettes/

Het beeld over de #juistheid van het aangehaalde onderzoek komt dan toch echt op een ander podium te staan. Nu.nl heeft meer met sensatie dan met feiten, blijkbaar..

#science #nicotine #research #debunkend #junkscience

#nu.nl brengt een artikel over #vapes en #esigaretten met betrekking tot een onderzoek aangaande de #carcinogeniteit ervan. Ik heb diverse malen geprobeerd in de lezers response om de kritieken op dit onderzoek aan te geven, maar door de NU.nl #censuur komen deze berichten niet door voor het publiek. Dus doen we het maar hier: Dit is het artikel van nu.nl

Het NU.nl artikel

https://www.nu.nl/gezondheid/6390983/vapen-veroorzaakt-waarschijnlijk-kanker-maken-dezelfde-fout-als-met-sigaretten.html#nujij

Mijn inbreng was de #commentaren op het aangehaalde onderzoek in dit artikel door nu.nl, van Science Media Centre, namelijk

#debunked via Science Media Centre

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-qualitative-risk-assessment-on-the-carcinogenicity-of-e-cigarettes/

Het beeld over de #juistheid van het aangehaalde onderzoek komt dan toch echt op een ander podium te staan. Nu.nl heeft meer met sensatie dan met feiten, blijkbaar..

#science #nicotine #research #debunkend #junkscience

#nu.nl brengt een artikel over #vapes en #esigaretten met betrekking tot een onderzoek aangaande de #carcinogeniteit ervan. Ik heb diverse malen geprobeerd in de lezers response om de kritieken op dit onderzoek aan te geven, maar door de NU.nl #censuur komen deze berichten niet door voor het publiek. Dus doen we het maar hier: Dit is het artikel van nu.nl

Het NU.nl artikel

https://www.nu.nl/gezondheid/6390983/vapen-veroorzaakt-waarschijnlijk-kanker-maken-dezelfde-fout-als-met-sigaretten.html#nujij

Mijn inbreng was de #commentaren op het aangehaalde onderzoek in dit artikel door nu.nl, van Science Media Centre, namelijk

#debunked via Science Media Centre

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-qualitative-risk-assessment-on-the-carcinogenicity-of-e-cigarettes/

Het beeld over de #juistheid van het aangehaalde onderzoek komt dan toch echt op een ander podium te staan. Nu.nl heeft meer met sensatie dan met feiten, blijkbaar..

#science #nicotine #research #debunkend #junkscience

Ah, junk science, "studies" which ask an LLM to make up a study about <insert thing here>. #junkscience

A #study testing 13 #LLMs found that all can be used to commit #academicfraud or facilitate #junkscience. While some models, like Claude, were more resistant to fraudulent requests, others, like Grok and early GPT versions, performed poorly. The study highlights the need for developers to implement stronger #safeguards against #misuse of LLMs. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00595-9?eicker.news #tech #media #news

A #study testing 13 #LLMs found that all can be used to commit #academicfraud or facilitate #junkscience. While some models, like Claude, were more resistant to fraudulent requests, others, like Grok and early GPT versions, performed poorly. The study highlights the need for developers to implement stronger #safeguards against #misuse of LLMs. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00595-9?eicker.news #tech #media #news

A #study testing 13 #LLMs found that all can be used to commit #academicfraud or facilitate #junkscience. While some models, like Claude, were more resistant to fraudulent requests, others, like Grok and early GPT versions, performed poorly. The study highlights the need for developers to implement stronger #safeguards against #misuse of LLMs. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00595-9?eicker.news #tech #media #news

A #study testing 13 #LLMs found that all can be used to commit #academicfraud or facilitate #junkscience. While some models, like Claude, were more resistant to fraudulent requests, others, like Grok and early GPT versions, performed poorly. The study highlights the need for developers to implement stronger #safeguards against #misuse of LLMs. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00595-9?eicker.news #tech #media #news

A #study testing 13 #LLMs found that all can be used to commit #academicfraud or facilitate #junkscience. While some models, like Claude, were more resistant to fraudulent requests, others, like Grok and early GPT versions, performed poorly. The study highlights the need for developers to implement stronger #safeguards against #misuse of LLMs. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00595-9?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people.

Gifted Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/children-genetics-race-science.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFA.QnBp.GS7BBH5TVnqY&smid=bs-share

#Race #RaceScience #WhiteNationalism #Racism #JunkScience #WhiteSupremacy #NIH #Trump #MAGA #RobertFKennedyJr

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people.

Gifted Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/children-genetics-race-science.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFA.QnBp.GS7BBH5TVnqY&smid=bs-share

#Race #RaceScience #WhiteNationalism #Racism #JunkScience #WhiteSupremacy #NIH #Trump #MAGA #RobertFKennedyJr

"I have an IQ of 172."

Really? What was the IQ of the person who wrote the test?

Also what the Hell even is IQ?

#JunkScience

@futurebird

When it comes to my ME/CFS many people are the same about "traditional" Chinese "medicine", or naturopathy, homoeopathy, acupuncture, etc etc.

If I haven't tried it, because it's bullshit, a scam or otherwise failed to be proved by standards we'd expect of any treatment to be funded under the pharmaceutical benefits scheme (Australia), I "mustn't actually want to get well" - verbatim quote from many incredulous morons and ultimately people I don't ever want to speak to ever again.

#JunkScience #MECFS

#JunkScience #vaccines #FDA #COVID #RFKJr

"Covid Shots May Get FDA’s Strongest Warning

The agency’s black-box label is meant to flag serious threats to life and health.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s FDA has already reversed established vaccine policy and guidance

The Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to place a 'black-box' warning—a high-danger label only used to flag risk of death, severe harm, or incapacitation—on Covid vaccines, CNN has reported.

According to the Friday CNN report, the initiative to include the warning—part of a range of efforts by Trump administration health officials to limit access to, public support for, and uptake of Covid shots and other vaccinations—is being led by FDA chief medical and scientific officer Vinay Prasad, who is also director of the agency’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. The plan to implement the warnings is expected to be made public by the end of December.

(. . .)

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s FDA has already reversed previous federal policy on Covid vaccines, restricting the most recent vaccineto people who are at elevated risk due to age or an underlying health condition. Kennedy said in November that he instructed CDC to retract its long-held public stance that vaccines do not cause autism despite evidence to the contrary. (CDC’s website now claims that the assertion that vaccines do not cause autism is not 'evidence-based.')"

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/fda-prasad-covid-vaccine-black-box-warning/

#JunkScience #cannabis #propaganda

"Review of Medical Cannabis Use Finds Little Evidence of Benefit

Researchers found a chasm between the health reasons for which the public seeks out cannabis and what gold-standard science actually shows about its effectiveness.

To treat their pain, anxiety and sleep problems, millions of Americans turn to cannabis, which is now legal in 40 states for medical use. But a new review of 15 years of research concludes that the evidence of its benefits is often weak or inconclusive, and that nearly 30 percent of medical cannabis patients meet criteria for cannabis use disorder.

'The evidence does not support the use of cannabis or cannabinoids at this point for most of the indications that folks are using it for,' said Dr. Michael Hsu, an addiction psychiatrist and clinical instructor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the lead author of the review, which was published last month in the medical journal JAMA. (Cannabis refers to the entire plant; cannabinoids are its many compounds.)

The analysis arrives amid a surging acceptance and normalization of cannabis products, a $32 billion industry. For the review, addiction experts at academic medical centers across the country studied more than 2,500 clinical trials, guidelines and surveys conducted mostly in the United States and Canada. They found a wide gulf between the health purposes for which the public seeks out cannabis and what gold-standard science shows about its effectiveness.

The researchers distinguished between medical cannabis, sold at dispensaries, and pharmaceutical-grade cannabinoids — the handful of medicines approved by the Food and Drug Administration with formulations containing either low-grade THC, a psychoactive compound, or CBD, a nonintoxicating compound. Those medicines, including Marinol, Syndros and Cesamet, are available by prescription at conventional pharmacies and have had good results in easing chemotherapy-related nausea, stimulating the appetite of patients with debilitating illnesses like H.I.V./AIDS, and easing some pediatric seizure disorders.

The researchers found that doctors themselves do not have a firm understanding of medical cannabis."

https://archive.ph/jwX1X#selection-691.0-733.100

“Today is a defining moment for our country,” Michael Osterholm, a public health expert at the University of Minnesota, said. “We can no longer trust federal health authorities when it comes to vaccines.”

CDC Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns

[guest link] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/health/kennedy-vaccine-committee-vote-hepatitisb.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6U8.o3Kr.buSv_5tTwoNJ&smid=url-share

#vaccines #CDC #health #children #RFK #junkscience

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/

Surprisingly, someone just left a comment on an old blogpost of mine from nearly 10 years ago about what was then a new update of the UK government's alcohol guidelines, which prompted me to re-read what I'd written.

I quite enjoyed re-reading it. So here it is in case you'd enjoy reading it too.

https://www.statsguy.co.uk/new-alcohol-guidelines/

#Alcohol #PublicHealth #JunkScience

https://www.desmog.com/2025/09/02/85-climate-experts-condemn-trump-climate-report-as-junk-science/; https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PwAR8I9YYmPhbQ6CRekHkroJGMbjbX7l/view; https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-ams/ams-statements/statements-of-the-ams-in-force/the-practice-and-assessment-of-science-five-foundational-flaws-in-the-department-of-energys-2025-climate-report/?_zs=4CXme1&_zl=W83MA. The Trump "Climate Working Group" Report - written by #climatechange deniers & full of #junkscience, @GeraldKutney.

Oregon Appeals Court Says Bullet Cartridge Matching Is Just More Junk Science | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/11/oregon-appeals-court-says-bullet-cartridge-matching-is-just-more-junk-science/

#JunkScience

RFK Jr.'s health department calls Nature "junk science," cancels subscriptions

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/07/rfk-jr-s-health-department-calls-nature-junk-science-cancels-subscriptions/

#HackerNews #RFKJr #HealthNature #JunkScience #Censorship #News

Gizmodo: Million-Dollar Project Aims to Expose Bad Medical Research. “The Center for Scientific Integrity just launched the Medical Evidence Project, a two-year effort to identify published medical research with a negative effect on health guidelines—and to make sure people actually hear about it. Equipped with a $900,000 grant from Open Philanthropy and a core team of up to five […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/09/gizmodo-million-dollar-project-aims-to-expose-bad-medical-research/

'Coincidentally, the push for less onerous standards on supplements and psychedelics would come while Kennedy is demanding “gold-standard science” to review preservatives and other food additives that he has said could play a role in the country’s high rate of chronic diseases.'

https://undark.org/2025/03/04/supplement-industry-rfk/
#USpol #HHS #FDA #RFKJr #TheRealRFKJr #supplementIndustry #junkScience #MAHA #lobbies

The Dangers of #JunkScience

https://www.acsh.org/news/2025/04/07/dangers-junk-science-49402

"Dozens of studies have failed to find evidence of a link. The decision to re-examine the question comes as a #measles outbreak, driven by low vaccination rates, widens in Texas."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/health/vaccines-autism-cdc-rfk-jr.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2U4.CpBb.l4ZKrfk_vYMi&smid=url-share
#USpol #RFKJr #TheRealRFKJr #BravoLesArtistes #JunkScience #kakistocracy #TrumpCabinet #antivaxxers #antivax #antivaxxersKill

The FBI Tried to Censor Forensics Experts Conference

https://theintercept.com/2025/02/06/fbi-academy-forensic-science-law-enforcement/

#JunkScience #ACAB #AAFSCensorship

" ...flexible but hard and have the distinctive hyperbolic paraboloid topology of Pringles chips."

Physicists ecstatic the true curvature of the universe can now be determined, after investigators observing nature manage to find fragments of the famous space-time rubber sheet.

https://boingboing.net/2025/01/23/what-are-these-weird-pringle-shaped-plastic-things-that-washed-up-on-the-beach.html

#Humor #Physics #Garbage #Pollution #JunkScience

University of Borås: AI-fabricated “junk science” floods Google Scholar. “AI-generated research is a threat, both in terms of society’s knowledge and public trust in science. This was the conclusion made by the researchers behind the study that recently identified over a hundred suspected AI-generated articles in the Google Scholar search engine.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/14/university-of-boras-ai-fabricated-junk-science-floods-google-scholar/

Researchers planning to do #SystematicReviews must now plan to filter out the #JunkScience. That's difficult, time-consuming, error-prone, and demoralizing. It causes some researchers to drop their plans and forces others to move more slowly.
https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril
(#paywalled)

#Academia #LiteratureReviews #MetaResearch #MetaScience #ScholComm
@academicchatter

Everybody does understand that Evo Psych is junk science AT BEST, right?

:boost_ok:

#Science #junkScience

Woman convicted in scalding death of baby using “junk science” law to overturn conviction https://www.byteseu.com/568340/ #CarmenMejia #ExpertTestimony #InnocenceProject #JunkScience #NewTrial #ScaldingDeath #Science #texas #WrongfulConviction

New York PD Is Training Officers That Someone Saying ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Is Just ‘Excited Delirium’ | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/23/new-york-pd-is-training-officers-that-someone-saying-i-cant-breathe-is-just-excited-delirium/

#ACAB #PoliceStateUSA #JunkScience

Texas will execute Robert Roberson on October 17 for a crime that never happened, based on discredited pseudo-science, and ignoring Texas' "junk science law" meant to prevent such use of flawed forensics and miscarriages of justice

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/17/robert-roberson-texas-death-penalty-john-grisham-innocent

https://undark.org/2024/08/06/texas-junk-science-law-not-keeping-up-with-science

#innocenceproject #deathpenalty #Texas #RobertRoberson #autistic #humanrights #capitalpunishment #TexasDefenderService #psuedoscience #junkscience #law #murder #crime #justice #execution

A Texas law created to help people imprisoned due to flawed scientific evidence is not working, report says

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2024/08/05/495604/a-texas-law-created-to-help-people-imprisoned-due-to-flawed-scientific-evidence-is-not-working-report-says/

#CriminalJustice #Local #News #Texas #Article11073 #Dna #JunkScience #Prison #ScientificEvidence #TexasDefenderService

A Texas law created to help people imprisoned due to flawed scientific evidence is not working, report says

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2024/08/05/495604/a-texas-law-created-to-help-people-imprisoned-due-to-flawed-scientific-evidence-is-not-working-report-says/

#CriminalJustice #Local #News #Texas #Article11073 #Dna #JunkScience #Prison #ScientificEvidence #TexasDefenderService

A Texas law created to help people imprisoned due to flawed scientific evidence is not working, report says

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2024/08/05/495604/a-texas-law-created-to-help-people-imprisoned-due-to-flawed-scientific-evidence-is-not-working-report-says/

#CriminalJustice #Local #News #Texas #Article11073 #Dna #JunkScience #Prison #ScientificEvidence #TexasDefenderService

A Texas law created to help people imprisoned due to flawed scientific evidence is not working, report says

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2024/08/05/495604/a-texas-law-created-to-help-people-imprisoned-due-to-flawed-scientific-evidence-is-not-working-report-says/

#CriminalJustice #Local #News #Texas #Article11073 #Dna #JunkScience #Prison #ScientificEvidence #TexasDefenderService

A Texas law created to help people imprisoned due to flawed scientific evidence is not working, report says

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2024/08/05/495604/a-texas-law-created-to-help-people-imprisoned-due-to-flawed-scientific-evidence-is-not-working-report-says/

#CriminalJustice #Local #News #Texas #Article11073 #Dna #JunkScience #Prison #ScientificEvidence #TexasDefenderService

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/american-college-pediatricians

#SouthernPovertyLawCenter #SPLCenter

Exposing the #AmericanCollegeOfPediatricians (ACPeds) which is an antiLGBTQIAplus #hategroup that masquerades as the premier U.S. association of pediatricians to push anti-queer #JunkScience, and who are propped up by rich #Christofascists and other #farright schmucks

#SupportTransYouth #ProtectTransKids :heart_trans:
#TransAndNonBinaryRightsAreHumanRights :heart_trans: :heart_nb:

Protect #LGBTQIAplus :newpride: Rights

Three "#junkscience" #abortionpill #studies were just #retracted. Will the #SupremeCourt notice?

“I hope that this will make people more careful about when they #cite #studies," one #lawyer told #Salon

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #WomensRights #Abortion #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Misogyny #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.salon.com/2024/02/08/three-junk-science-abortion-pill-studies-were-just-retracted-will-the-notice/

#JuliaSerano on #Autogynephilia, #JunkScience, and #Pseudoscience

Plus links to her #academicarticles, #onlineessays, and #explainers on the topics.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/autogynephilia-junk-science-and-pseudoscience

#JuliaSerano on #Autogynephilia, #JunkScience, and #Pseudoscience

Plus links to her #academicarticles, #onlineessays, and #explainers on the topics.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/autogynephilia-junk-science-and-pseudoscience

#JuliaSerano on #Autogynephilia, #JunkScience, and #Pseudoscience

Plus links to her #academicarticles, #onlineessays, and #explainers on the topics.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/autogynephilia-junk-science-and-pseudoscience