Alex Brown

But will it confuse military barracks with primary schools?

New York Times piece headlined "How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran's Response to War"

Even when the NYT raises an eyebrow it dignifies the current situation as if there was some "calculation" at all to mistake. Cannot admit (/does not realise) that the US has regressed to a nation of irrational policy spasms.

The inaugural invitee to Jay B’s new ‘free speech in science’ flag ship lecture series being forced on NIH is….well would you believe it! Fellow right wing peddler of bullshit Matt Ridley. An HIV and Covid conspiracist, climate change denier and financial genius who inherited a bank and wrecked it.

The COSMOS study of multivitamins and cocoa supplements continues to be a ridiculous circus that mostly shows how broken science is.

This time, it's DNA methylation.

The US has already taken a different course, deciding that dead children is effectively a price worth paying for gun 'freedom'.

Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal Gunnar Ridderström/Pexels As a hospital librarian, Jessica Waite is typically successful at tracking down elusive articles for clinicians at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in England. So when a colleag…

“I was really shocked that an article published in a Springer journal and which presumably had gone through a peer or editorial review could have such a high number of references to hallucinated articles. I can see how one or two may slip through the net, but this was a preposterous number.”

Strong _Dukakis in the tank_ energy here

Glyphosate Probably Isn't Giving You Cancer Why you are probably safe to eat fruit and vegetables farmed using the weedkiller glyphosate

Given the renewed interest in glyphosate, here's my piece on the chemical and how we know that it almost certainly does not cause cancer:

gidmk.substack.com/p/glyphosate...

I hear Dr Johnny Bananas is particularly livid

Friends don’t let friends use Omarchy:

マリウス.com/a-word-on-om...

"Conspiracy hypotheses" in action

Yes but not this stuff

Pseudoscience as a weapon anyway

Abstract record cover for a new recording of Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet

Released today. The cover seems like a throw-back to the 1980s ...

Is Your Party still a thing? #ukpolitics

Jay Bhattacharya says if lots of people believe something, the NIH has a duty to study it

In this 2023 national US survey, 69% of Americans believed in angels, 56% in the devil, & 34% in astrology (www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...)

Coming soon: NIH funded studies on angels, the devil, & astrology 🤯

She’s off her trolley

"Bring back National Service" in 3 ... 2 ...

bunny-shaped

He should have settled for being a obscure "fringe epidemiologist"; what he's become is orders of magnitiute worse, as history will surely relate

I find it very alienating that people view sketchy AI reasoning as an existential threat but don’t view the substack/podbro autocorrelative loop through the same lens.

Four is the maximum (or one if Celibidache conducting)

Strong "Real BREXIT has never been tried" energy from the Express here

'guarding'

At last an AI tool I can get behind

“Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.”

antirender.com

Do they know what 'innovation' means?

It’s time to ban social media for the over-60s, restrict their screen-time and implement upper-limit age verification.

The UK paid £4.1 million for a bookmarks site Or, as they like to call it, the 'AI Skills Hub'. Which was built by PwC because of course it was

A bargain 😳

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

I tried the government's new 'AI Skills Hub'. Let's just say I was underwhelmed.

tommorris.org/posts/2026/t...