Tech: Meta’s AI-backed language system taken off line after 3 days
Galactica is an AI system designed to analyze and summarize science papers. Meta says it’s better than a search engine. Not only can it find sources, but it can write…
Science: Many researchers cannot reproduce their own or other’s experimental results
This seems like a bit of a problem: More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce…
Science: Was Hurricane Ian caused by human induced climate change?
Many media stories and talking heads on TV say Hurricane Ian’s destruction is a symptom of human-induced climate change, and that hurricanes are getting worse. NOAA is considered an authoritative…
Health: Our brain “re-wires” after about age 40
“Older adults tend to show less flexible thinking, such as forming new concepts and abstract thinking, lower response inhibition, as well as lower verbal and numeric reasoning,” the reviewers noted.…
Ethics and Integrity: White House Climate advisor sanctioned for unethical conduct
The National Academy of Sciences has barred Jane Lubchenco, a key White House climate aide, from involvement in NAS publications and activities for five years for violating its code of…
Junk Science, they had no control group: “Masked, Vaccinated Students Didn’t Catch Covid in Classrooms”
Vaccinated and masked college students had virtually no chance of catching Covid-19 in the classroom last fall, according to a sweeping study of 33,000 Boston University students that bolsters standard…
Follow up: Great Barrier Reef is dying due to climate change, until it sees greatest coral cover in 36 years
April 2019: Global warming has caused such extensive damage to the Great Barrier Reef that scientists say its coral may never recover. According to a study published Wednesday in the journal…
Sun’s Upcoming Peak of Sunspot and Solar Flare Activity Could Set Records – CNET
I am not a fan of massive modeling exercises to predict the future – as documented on this blog the output of disease models has been generally wrong, often by…
Follow up in fall of 2022: “Get Ready for the Forever Plague | The Tyee” – a wonderful work of fiction writing?
The theory espoused by the Tyee writer is disconnected from immunological science. He says: Public health officials’ COVID complacency has opened the door to new illnesses and devastating long-term damage.…
Fascinating: SARS-CoV-2 appears to rely on body fat to cause disease
This lab finding could explain why some have bad outcomes with Covid-19: The virus that causes COVID-19 undertakes a massive takeover of the body’s fat-processing system, creating cellular storehouses of…