A nice time giving a talk to leaders, educators, and students in the orthopaedic surgery space. They have many legitimate concerns about how scientific information is being published.

Song of the week. www.the-geyser.com/i-was-made-f...

This weeks fetch. www.the-geyser.com/this-weeks-t...

What’s next for our podcast? Not sure, but we think it will be interesting! www.the-geyser.com/the-pivot-of...

my uterine lining pie recipe getting better is a when, not an if. I mean it’s not getting any worse that’s for sure. Will people change their minds at some point? Makes u think

There is no way to do anything interesting in any sustained way in any field without immersion in that field. That's just a fundamental fact of being human, and there's no getting around it.

Our first Advance Reader Copies (ARCs) are out, and they look sharp!

As alternatives grow and the financial bargain sours, Substack keeps hemorrhaging talent. www.the-geyser.com/substack-con...

Nothing says “restoring trust in public health” more than having a right-wing economist who has never practiced medicine in charge of the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control. You can really tell he has literally never treated a single patient or a single infectious disease.

The CDC is MIA. www.statnews.com/2026/05/09/m...

The @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social team wants to look heroic, but they helped make the monsters trammeling the town. www.the-geyser.com/medrxiv-made...

If you are a member of the scientific community wondering how to meet this moment, check out this excellent discussion between @holdenthorp.bsky.social and @timothysnyder.bsky.social. youtu.be/IWNDMwimUP0?...

This week's song. www.the-geyser.com/friday-song-...

I've been scooped (in a good way). I was working on a piece along these lines. This is better. substack.com/home/post/p-...

This week's texted discoveries. www.the-geyser.com/this-weeks-t...

Where is the outrage by all the OA people and scientific publishers? www.the-geyser.com/where-is-the...

@crossref.bsky.social owns a brand but isn’t managing what users have made it into. www.the-geyser.com/crossrefs-br...

As if on cue. @nejm.org “Images in Clinical Medicine” editor misses obvious AI-generated ruler mislabeling, leads to retraction. 😱 retractionwatch.com/2026/05/01/n...

A study of LLMs and “reasoning tasks” in @science.org relies on editorial artifacts rather than real medical encounters, is in the wrong kind of journal, and has authors who worship computers. www.the-geyser.com/case-mysteri...

Russian operatives, flooding the zone, trans-Atlantic conspiracy theorists, and more. Pre-order your copy today! www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-th...

A whooping cough outbreak in an elementary school down the road. Meanwhile I finally got around to reading Candle In the Dark and only a few pages in, you get to its eerily prescient passage. Sigh.

Get your copy pre-ordered today. www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-th...

Song of the week. www.the-geyser.com/were-an-amer...

This week’s texted discoveries. www.the-geyser.com/this-weeks-t...

@erictopol.bsky.social gets tangled up in fake paper scandal, but maybe misdiagnoses the reasons it was so easy. www.the-geyser.com/pod-eric-top...

@karaswisher.bsky.social @profgalloway.com A secure ballroom at "the People's House" is just a gated community for the privileged. It makes no sense. The President is just a citizen with a job, and has to share in the society of the nation.

Sam Altman is fucked up. www.truthdig.com/articles/sam...

Updating our post from last year about “pump and dump” science, crypto scams, and money laundering possibilities. (HT @benmckenzie.bsky.social for the inspiration) www.the-geyser.com/updating-pum...

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

For @benmckenzie.bsky.social some insights into crypto-driven "pump and dump" science. www.the-geyser.com/pump-and-dum...

@benmckenzie.bsky.social is making important points about crypto, which has been involved in scientific publishing "pump and dump" schemes, as well. youtu.be/1CEmgeDfchM

This is exactly the kind of anti-intellectualism I wrote about here: www.elizabethspiers.com/the-anti-int...

What's wrong with this picture? www.the-geyser.com/were-now-ton...

Robot ping pong and racist manifestos. What could go wrong? www.the-geyser.com/were-now-ton...

Reposting this for @jaketapper.bsky.social. Dude, do some research about all the hallucinations in OpenEvidence before your interviews. (There are more — many more.) www.the-geyser.com/the-grinch-w...

Now we’re quoting ourselves being quoted! Things are moving! Pre-order your copy today. www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-th...

Show me the incentives, and I’ll tell you the outcome. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/h...

NEW: Calley Means, a top advisor to Kennedy/Trump, held $25-$50M in stock & was president of his wellness company last year while he advised on health policy. His company benefits from more HSAs. He said he had no role in HSA expansion. w/@benjmueller www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/h...

Vaccines work. They are safe. They save lives. And mandating them in the military is a tradition that dates back to the Founding era whose 250th anniversary we are marking this year.

Good coverage of a vexing topic, and one of us gets quoted, too. Let's hope things change in the right ways. www.statnews.com/2026/04/24/s...

"This is incredibly dangerous not only for individual reputations and trust in academic work but also for the actual scientific knowledge.” Yeah, we wrote a book about this kind of stuff and more. It's been going on for years. It's shocking you're shocked. retractionwatch.com/2026/04/23/e...

This week's texted discoveries. www.the-geyser.com/this-weeks-t...

This week’s song. www.the-geyser.com/song-cant-st...

While US scientists struggle and techno-authoritarians thrive, the head of @springernature.com plays ping pong with a robot.

Trust in science is falling, conspiracies are gaining. We help you understand why in our upcoming book. Pre-order "How the Internet Disrupted Science" after perusing this article. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tech bros don't even understand what journals represent, who they're for, and what they do. www.the-geyser.com/processed-go...

RFK Jr: I terminated the COVID vaccines because it didn’t make any sense. COVID is gone. Note: From July 2024 to June 2025 in the US, COVID19 caused up to 450,000 hospitalizations and 53,000 deaths. COVID ain’t gone, shitbird.

Palantir and the Brain. 😂

Don't forget that heavy duty oil and light beer with your "free to read" scientific paper! www.the-geyser.com/whats-feedin...

Will AI “stings” prove as ineffective as the old OA stings? www.the-geyser.com/will-ai-stin...