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Matthias Wjst, md, prof, Munich — retired but let’s name it graduated — #molecular #epidemiology #imaging #ethics #integrity
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Agrees to Pay $15 Million to Settle Fraud Allegations Related to Scientific Research Grants. The relator [Sholto David] will receive $2,625,000 under today’s settlement.
www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/d...
www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/d...
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Agrees to Pay $15 Million to Settle Fraud Allegations Related to Scientific Research Grants
BOSTON – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Dana-Farber) has agreed to pay $15 million to resolve allegations that, between 2014 and 2024, it made materially false statements and certifications relat...
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December 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Agrees to Pay $15 Million to Settle Fraud Allegations Related to Scientific Research Grants. The relator [Sholto David] will receive $2,625,000 under today’s settlement.
www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/d...
www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/d...
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Agenda 2063 is anchored in the aspiration to craft “The Africa We Want,” a peaceful, prosperous, integrated, people-driven, and globally influential continent. Significant strides have been made in translating vision into practice, even while significant work remains.
africacenter.org/spo...
africacenter.org/spo...
December 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Agenda 2063 is anchored in the aspiration to craft “The Africa We Want,” a peaceful, prosperous, integrated, people-driven, and globally influential continent. Significant strides have been made in translating vision into practice, even while significant work remains.
africacenter.org/spo...
africacenter.org/spo...
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Thrilled to be part of the @uoftmedicine.bsky.social Magazine spotlight on scientific integrity, especially in AI research, emphasizing the critical importance of reproducibility, data quality, and validation, not just performance metrics.
uoftmedmagazine.utoronto.ca/2026-winter/
uoftmedmagazine.utoronto.ca/2026-winter/
December 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Thrilled to be part of the @uoftmedicine.bsky.social Magazine spotlight on scientific integrity, especially in AI research, emphasizing the critical importance of reproducibility, data quality, and validation, not just performance metrics.
uoftmedmagazine.utoronto.ca/2026-winter/
uoftmedmagazine.utoronto.ca/2026-winter/
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“Today’s most serious national-security vulnerabilities involving AI stem not from too much oversight, but from the absence of it,” former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel argues.
Trump’s AI-Regulation Ban Is a Threat to National Security
The United States should not be lobbied out of protecting its own future.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“Today’s most serious national-security vulnerabilities involving AI stem not from too much oversight, but from the absence of it,” former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel argues.
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Scientific evidence shows, once again, there is no causal link between vaccines and autism. Vaccines cause adults. - @drtedros.who.int
December 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Scientific evidence shows, once again, there is no causal link between vaccines and autism. Vaccines cause adults. - @drtedros.who.int
So it is the same story like with the „hygiene hypothesis“ - fragmented and basically collapsed
Why the “immunity debt” narrative ultimately collapsed:
Over the past few months, the conversation has moved toward the conclusion the evidence has been pointing to for years.
Since 2022, immunity debt offered an easy explanation for the unusual patterns of illness we kept seeing.
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Over the past few months, the conversation has moved toward the conclusion the evidence has been pointing to for years.
Since 2022, immunity debt offered an easy explanation for the unusual patterns of illness we kept seeing.
1/7
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
So it is the same story like with the „hygiene hypothesis“ - fragmented and basically collapsed
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Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication
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Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇 #hacker-news
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Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇 #hacker-news
Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication
A 2000 study that concluded the well-known herbicide glyphosate was safe, widely cited since then, has just been officially disavowed by the journal that published it. The scientists are suspected of having signed a text actually prepared by Monsanto.
www.lemonde.fr
December 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication
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Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇 #hacker-news
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Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇 #hacker-news
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"The challenges of communicating mathematical ideas to the general public are well-known. But what may be surprising to people outside the field is how little mathematicians themselves understand each other," writes Emily Riehl in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. https://scim.ag/3K5yukX
December 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"The challenges of communicating mathematical ideas to the general public are well-known. But what may be surprising to people outside the field is how little mathematicians themselves understand each other," writes Emily Riehl in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. https://scim.ag/3K5yukX
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In the devastated city of El Fasher, satellites have spotted a network of newly dug incineration and burial pits thought to be for the disposal of large numbers of bodies. 150,000 residents remain unaccounted for since the city fell to the RSF.
RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
Up to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:48 AM
In the devastated city of El Fasher, satellites have spotted a network of newly dug incineration and burial pits thought to be for the disposal of large numbers of bodies. 150,000 residents remain unaccounted for since the city fell to the RSF.
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„Lügen erscheinen dem Verstand häufig viel einleuchtender und anziehender als die Wahrheit, weil der Lügner den großen Vorteil hat, im Voraus zu wissen, was das Publikum zu hören wünscht."
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
December 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
„Lügen erscheinen dem Verstand häufig viel einleuchtender und anziehender als die Wahrheit, weil der Lügner den großen Vorteil hat, im Voraus zu wissen, was das Publikum zu hören wünscht."
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
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UKRI exploring use of AI in grant review - this will prompt debate but interested to know if people think it’d encourage novelty or the opposite? www.chemistryworld.com/news/ukri-op...
UKRI opens up grant proposal data to explore using AI to smooth peer review
Surging applications has led the UK's main funder to look at ways to reduce the burden on reviewers
www.chemistryworld.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
UKRI exploring use of AI in grant review - this will prompt debate but interested to know if people think it’d encourage novelty or the opposite? www.chemistryworld.com/news/ukri-op...
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🔴230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🔴230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
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Health news and science news rarely make the front pages, and meanwhile an enormous amount is happening quietly, almost in the shadows.
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Health news and science news rarely make the front pages, and meanwhile an enormous amount is happening quietly, almost in the shadows.
I don't need all these accounts and messages too tonsky.me/blog/needy-p...
Needy Programs
We used to use software; now software started to use us
tonsky.me
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I don't need all these accounts and messages too tonsky.me/blog/needy-p...
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There is a (not so) revolutionary proposal how to restore scientific integrity pubpeer.com/publications... which could turn a bad case into something good
November 17, 2025 at 5:15 AM
There is a (not so) revolutionary proposal how to restore scientific integrity pubpeer.com/publications... which could turn a bad case into something good
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Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
There is a (not so) revolutionary proposal how to restore scientific integrity pubpeer.com/publications... which could turn a bad case into something good
November 17, 2025 at 5:15 AM
There is a (not so) revolutionary proposal how to restore scientific integrity pubpeer.com/publications... which could turn a bad case into something good
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“The authors have informed the journal that an auditable replacement dataset has been prepared and will be made available to The BMJ. The BMJ will update this notice and make a decision about what post-publication change to the content is needed.”
I am not enjoying the implications of this.
I am not enjoying the implications of this.
@bmj.com has issued an expression of concern for a paper claiming stem cell therapy can reduce the risk of heart failure. The move comes after sleuths and scientists critiqued the “complete mismatch” between the study data and the article itself.
BMJ places expression of concern on heavily criticized stem cell paper
The BMJ has issued an expression of concern for a paper claiming stem cell therapy can reduce the risk of heart failure. The move comes after sleuths and scientists critiqued the “complete mismatch…
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November 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
“The authors have informed the journal that an auditable replacement dataset has been prepared and will be made available to The BMJ. The BMJ will update this notice and make a decision about what post-publication change to the content is needed.”
I am not enjoying the implications of this.
I am not enjoying the implications of this.
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Tech companies have long promised to deliver a golden age of human connection—but with AI companions, what’s actually unfolding is a digital age “more actively anti-social than the last,” @damonberes.com argues:
The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here
The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Tech companies have long promised to deliver a golden age of human connection—but with AI companions, what’s actually unfolding is a digital age “more actively anti-social than the last,” @damonberes.com argues:
Excellent summary with serious conclusions - forget diets and Wegovy but invest in prevention: better food for children in industrialized countries & creating neighborhoods where walking and cycling are prioritized over cars @kinderdok.bsky.social @adfc.de
Biological systems in the brain evolved to defend body weight, making sustained weight loss challenging in modern environments with abundant food and limited physical activity. doi.org/g99xpx
The science of weight loss—and why your brain is wired to keep you fat
For decades, we've been told that weight loss is a matter of willpower: eat less, move more. But modern science has proven this isn't actually the case.
medicalxpress.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Excellent summary with serious conclusions - forget diets and Wegovy but invest in prevention: better food for children in industrialized countries & creating neighborhoods where walking and cycling are prioritized over cars @kinderdok.bsky.social @adfc.de
some unknown facts about COPE and scientific integrity drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com/2022/11/15/h...
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
some unknown facts about COPE and scientific integrity drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com/2022/11/15/h...
I have a good A3 candidate from the @nejm.org pubpeer.com/publications...
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I have a good A3 candidate from the @nejm.org pubpeer.com/publications...