“Veganuary”
Even Microsoft Copilot understands the risks of vegetarian eating. You can do it, but you need to do it precisely right or eventually have problems. Promoters often hide the risks.
Space: OSIRIS-REx samples have high carbon and water content
Unexpected? NASA’s Bennu Asteroid Sample Contains Carbon, Water – NASA
Science: Nobel Prize winner was demoted by U of Penn, papers rejected by Nature and Science
Ouch: As Karikó worked for decades toward adapting mRNA to bring out its therapeutic qualities, her efforts were repeatedly dismissed by the university, she has said. When she was unable…
Climate, Science: Journal editor bias enforces preferred narratives, says scientist
Climate scientist says he focused on climate, only, as a factor in wildfires, because to bring up the many other causes would result in not being published.
Media lying about pavement temperature and pavement burns in Phoenix
In some parts of the U.S., it has been really, really hot - with some areas experiencing new record high temperatures..But the media is telling lies. Read on.
Vint Cerf receives 2023 IEEE Medal of Honor
Vint Cerf is an awesome individual: For the past five decades, Cerf, now 79, has been perfecting, extending, and evangelizing the Internet. It is for this—his contributions in cocreating the…
Science oops: “Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common”
Could be that 1 in 3 papers are hired works from “paper mills” that fabricate data and plagiarize from elsewhere: Journals are awash in a rising tide of scientific manuscripts…
Education oops: “Review finds little evidence to support some claims of gender bias” in academic STEM positions
There are possibly other characteristics that show bias but they were not identified in this study, jointly co-authored by those who previously claimed bias and those who disagreed with that…
Science oops: Much bad science (and worse media coverage of it)
The problem isn't bad science but what happens next: disastrous media coverage of bad science studies, and a lack of skeptical inquiry by reporters.
Published in Nature: “Political endorsements can affect scientific credibility”
In 2020, Nature endorsed Joe Biden in the US presidential election. A survey finds that viewing the endorsement did not change people’s views of the candidates, but caused some to…
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.…
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…