Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

The implications of not being able to retract from LLMs may be far-reaching, making these incompatible with science. www.the-geyser.com/cant-retract...

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

Being gullible isn’t helping your case, nor are all the citations of unreviewed preprints. So, let me fix your headline. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Frontiers doesn’t want their editors to receive bribes from outside entities — apparently, they’d rather keep it in-house via their "Special Issues" program. www.researchinformation.info/news/frontie...

This week’s peek inside the upcoming book. www.disruptedscience.com

As the AI bubble trembles, other economic indicators shriek. Are we on the brink of an international depression? www.the-geyser.com/number-go-do...

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Fun when one of the richest men on the planet can only change the conversation from Epstein to racism. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

Of course RFK Jr. lied about the Samoan people whose deaths from measles he is responsible for. Literally no one believed his lies except people like Bill Cassidy who chose to believe him in order to please the King. And now RFK Jr. will continue to get people killed by preventable diseases.

On a platform funded by @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social, a for-profit LLC.

A perfect week for this song. www.the-geyser.com/song-dirty-l...

The quote is, "With great power comes great responsibility" and NOT as some seem to think, "With great power comes great political immunity."

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Clever when @openevidence.bsky.social passes the USMLE — predictable and meaningless, but clever. However, what happens when real human doctors aren’t up to snuff? english.elpais.com/internationa...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Louis Pasteur warns against consuming raw milk in 1864, others even earlier.

This is an paper about the genetics of psychics. Blatant pseudoscience published OA and indexed in PubMed. We’re not psychic, but we knew things like this would happen because incentives are predictive. And OA incentivizes BS. bjp.org.br/details/3591...

None of these tech geniuses knows how to run a content business that isn't corrupt in some way.

Story in Undark on Kyle Walsh, the NIEHS Director appointed with no open position and no search process (and besties with JD Vance) undark.org/2026/02/04/n...

New podcast episode is up, with a shoutout to @bencollins.bsky.social of course. Just keepin' it real among us Massholes! www.the-geyser.com/podcast-real...

all the creators in the world will never fill the hole created by the degradation and loss of media institutions, despite all their problems

This is a powerful line of questioning from Senator Hassan and an outrageous answer from Director Bhattacharya. "If there were disruptions then it is the responsibility of the researchers that were managing the patients, not the NIH" because "I ordered that ... there would be continuity of care."

For more than a year, @jamapediatrics.com has had its “Most Viewed” chart dominated by a $6K OA article promoting eugenics-based pseudoscience about fluoride and IQ — to the delight of MAHA. www.the-geyser.com/maha-tops-th...

CDC Deputy Director Ralph Abraham thinks measles outbreaks are the “cost of doing business” in a world of global travel. Because travel didn't exist during the last 20 years, when we had effectively eliminated the disease. lnk.thebulwark.com/4tv9aXt

"Unusual"? How about "obviously corrupt and completely inappropriate"? JFC, @nytimes.com, get some better headline writers.

Hey, @karaswisher.bsky.social — this is the Chief Science Officer of your @rfk-junior.bsky.social adjacent sponsor this week. C'mon.

This is my full 50-page statement to Gov. Pritzker's "Illinois Accountability Commission," trying to explain comprehensively the depth of corruption, culture, and training problems within ICE and CBP. I hope you'll at least consider scanning through it: drive.google.com/file/d/1y0im...

Subscription to @theonion.com print purchased, and a great interview with @karaswisher.bsky.social here. We'll be “pivoting” off this one on our podcast this week, I believe. We’re in the same boat, following the tides and winds as we choose. megaphone.link/VMP8430683153

Another peek inside. www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-th...

An important essay. rosalynmetz.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...

Why would @nejm.org have an AI bot giving legal advice from one letter? You only have to ask. www.the-geyser.com/is-nejms-ai-...

This is so stupid. www.ft.com/content/54e2...

@this-is-mallory.bsky.social @derekberes.bsky.social @julianwalker.bsky.social Good episode. Want someone to explain how the scientific record became a playground for misinformation and quackery? We have the receipts. Happy to talk. www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-th...

If this is the same Peter Attia MD who was just revealed as one of Bari Weiss's big new additions to CBS News, he can just tell the stories about the "outrageous" life Jeffrey Epstein led on the Evening News. Think of the ratings!

@maxkozlov.bsky.social @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social I just sent this to Director Bhattacharya. Let me know if you think of anything else I can do to help.

The song of the week. www.the-geyser.com/song-streets...

This is @nejm.org and physicians at their best. Human, not AI. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she? 'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.' From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)

If you’re listening to @skepchick.org talk about Mark Hyman, remember he’s the main source of the explanation of "functional medicine" in @openevidence.bsky.social www.the-geyser.com/pay-to-play-...

This past week had some doozies. The one about the myth of fungible data is particularly good. www.the-geyser.com/this-weeks-t...

OSTP’s new review is a tech-bro wet dream. www.the-geyser.com/ostp-now-int...

“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

A forensic artist tells us about skulls, cold cases, teeth, and golf. www.the-geyser.com/pod-intervie...

"I didn’t realize, in the hours before his name was released to the public, that the man millions of people had seen lying facedown on the pavement from multiple angles of eyewitness video was my childhood best friend." Read more from @kristenradtke.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86856...

@cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy naming @markhyman3.bsky.social as a commentator is just another piece flooding the health information zone with nonsense. A paid promotional paper of his forms the basis of @openevidence.bsky.social when it "explains" functional medicine. www.the-geyser.com/pay-to-play-...

New Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart just released that covers a total of 137 sources: 100 from web/print, 19 podcast/audio and 18 TV/video programs. adfontesmedia.com/flagship-med...

Steven Miller and Trump. @karaswisher.bsky.social @profgalloway.com

You don’t need permission to opt out of bad science publishing practices. www.the-geyser.com/permission-t...