News Round-Up
17 November 2024
by Will Jones
Police Investigate Former Labour MP for Calling Hamas “Islamists”
16 November 2024
by Will Jones
Editors of scientific journals are already being duped into publishing fake research papers written by AIs. But with the rapid improvement in AIs, the problem is about to get much worse. What are they doing about it?
To ensure policy failure on such a scale never happens again, those of us who oppose them need concrete proposals that could be implemented by a parliament and which address the root causes of the failed policies.
Once more, a 'peer-reviewed' journal has to retract a bunch of papers because they are literally nonsense – generated by a computer algorithm. Why aren't publishers getting on top of this discreditable problem?
As we've come to expect from LSHTM and epidemiology in general, their latest model calling for stringent restrictions to save the NHS is un-scientific and contains severe problems making its predictions worthless.
Former Google software engineer and Swiss resident Mike Hearn explains why Switzerland voted to retain vaccine passports in the recent referendum.
Could the Covid vaccines actually be making us more susceptible to COVID-19? Former Google software engineer Mike Hearn explores this issue for the Daily Sceptic.
The MSM has finally cottoned on to the problem of academic fraud. It's great news that much bigger audiences are now being exposed to information about the scale and nature of the problems inside scientific institutions.
Tom Chivers at UnHerd claims false positives in the PCR test are "so rare" they can be ignored. Mike Hearn, a former Google software engineer, begs to differ in the Daily Sceptic.
A peer-reviewed scientific journal has published 436 papers that appear to be complete gibberish. What's the explanation?
Twitter bots have been blamed by liberals for every election result they don't like, from Trump's victory to Brexit. Yet according to a former Google software engineer, it's all wishful thinking.
Neil Ferguson et al have just published a paper arguing that had the UK adopted Sweden's approach to Covid, our death toll would be twice as high. But the paper is just flat out wrong, from the first sentence onwards.
Former Google software engineer Mike Hearn has written a 'Postcard From France' for the Daily Sceptic about the almost universal lack of enforcement of Macron's Pass Sanitaire. No vaccine passport? Pas de problème.
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