Herd Immunity & Herd Mentality
Kids are vulnerable to MMR again due to vaccine misinformation, while a scientist challenges the herd mentality around "open"
Kent Anderson
Who Will Investigate AI Hoaxes?
A new LLM tool to generate data allows researchers to fake studies, and we're not anywhere near ready for it
Overwhelmed and Misinformed
Young people are searching for trusted intermediaries, while we keep pumping nonsense into their lives
Friday Song: “3 AM”
A rough childhood couldn't keep this singer/songwriter from finding success
The Tired OA Narrative Framing
A paper analyzing APCs among the Big Five fails to address the real reasons this happened, and the real problems OA has created
Frontiers, ChatGPT, and Tufte
Frontiers continues to show how shoddy their work is with useless ChatGPT summaries and bad stats presentations
“Are You on TikTok Much?”
TikTok is leading to a dramatic difference in how young people see the world — but only where China wants to sow division
Funders Are Out of Control
The root cause of most of the new crises for scientific publishing? Funders
Friday Song: “Sweet Marie”
A 30-year-old song pops up on a powerful new show — and it works
Two Thursday Observations
The woes of eLife continue, as do the woes of people struggling to deal with a diminished professional life