RETRACTED FOR THE SECOND TIME: phony study on "biofield energy" treatment neurocritic.blogspot.com/2026/03/retr...
An update on the saga of a supernatural intervention published in peer-reviewed scientific journals cc: @retractionwatch.com
#standupforscience in SF
Predictably enough, one of the people funded by Wellcome LEAP's FORM project is James B. Adams brainfoundation.org/brain-invest..., whose work featured in our recent review www.cell.com/neuron/fullt..., and not in a good way.
see wellcomeleap.org/form/
I do have a dossier on the chickens…
The journal's retraction is here, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @ioanaacristea.bsky.social @deevybee.bsky.social @neuroskeptic.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com @wiringthebrain.bsky.social
RETRACTED FOR THE SECOND TIME: phony study on "biofield energy" treatment neurocritic.blogspot.com/2026/03/retr...
An update on the saga of a supernatural intervention published in peer-reviewed scientific journals cc: @retractionwatch.com
The lesion network mapping method is not fatally flawed www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The lesion network mapping method is fatally flawed www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This week's cover @thelancet.com
…except we’ve known about the Academic Boys’ Club for decades…
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social says what needs to be said:
"Frankly it stinks, and it doesn’t end with Epstein."
https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-epstein-and-the-moral-rot-of-us-public-intellectuals/
He continued meeting with Epstein (sometimes at his house) through 2018.
jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...
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I look forward to seeing Jeffrey at 5 today.
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His apology is meaningless now. He's 79, he could have retired (and apologized) years ago. This encapsulates much of what's wrong about academia
Let's just say he had a bad reputation...
Stick figure tumbling down a flight of stairs. His extruded brain is represented by a star
Here‘s a classic:
Fig. 2 (Guyomarc'h et al., 2009). Schematic from 'Skull fracture with brain expulsion in a one-level jumping-fall'
Two tortoiseshell cats on a blue sofa
Not one, but two tortoiseshell cats. They don't get along too well...
More AI slop, this time from @cp-neuron.bsky.social
cc: @doctorzen.net
can LLMs really solve novel math problems?
“This manuscript represents our preliminary efforts to come up with an objective and realistic methodology for assessing the capabilities of AI systems to autonomously solve research-level math questions.” arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
I wonder, @aaas.org and @researchamerica.bsky.social - are you also grateful to Trump for censoring research with racist grant screening? For ensuring multiyear funding still reduces the power of the NIH budget by threatening a veto if limits remained in the bill? For firing people who push back?
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
John Brockman’s EDGE intellectual salon, funded by Epstein, was always sexist
The exclusive EDGE salon run by Epstein confident John Brockman was always suspect, I’ve thought for 15-20 yrs.
neurocritic.blogspot.com/2010/09/fake...
@neuroskeptic.bsky.social also wrote about Hauser’s fraud at the time
neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2010/10/marc...
He asked Epstein for money around the time he was about to be de-funded by NSF (I think)
Here’s more about Hauser:
neurocritic.blogspot.com/2010/09/fake...
The “Moral Nine” became the “Moral Eight” when Marc Hauser’s extensive fraud became public. I wrote about it at the time
neurocritic.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/t...
Ever wondered how the Dalmatian Dog effect works?
The human brain can quickly learn from a single experience and generalize it to related experiences — an impressive feat so far not matched by AI.
Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com reveals how this works.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
NEW: The DHS arrest records make no mention of the Tren de Aragua gang even though officials repeatedly cited its presence in the building as motivation for the raid, in which agents descended from a Blackhawk helicopter and zip-tied U.S. citizens.
Bannon must be completely discredited because of his ties to Epstein. (He wants to avoid jail time if Democrats win the midterms... he's said so himself)
www.ms.now/news/epstein...
There’s almost a desperate sense of wanting to belong… He’s no Bach, but Tramo did receive funding from Epstein. And he dragged some innocent parties into the files because he posted his CV. But men like Trivers, Summers, and Krauss are truly wretched. Thanks for compiling the list
“Why a convicted sex offender who operated at the highest levels of multiple industries was determined to engineer human behavior remains an open question. The Stanford Review will continue investigating Epstein's ties to the uni..“
stanfordreview.org/breaking-eps...
[how about his ties to Thiel?]
