These people are devoted to eugenics at some deep level.

Some people worship tech so much they subjugate their own humanity to promote it. A very sad and desperate case in point: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

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“Vaccines cause adults.”

With cronyism rampant in the NIH already, this does not bode well . . . www.the-geyser.com/an-nih-shutd...

A perfect song for our disjointed times. www.the-geyser.com/song-hell-yo...

Preprints, science policy, and whether Americans make a good flat white — our interview with Nick Evans. www.the-geyser.com/pod-intervie...

Were Covid-19 policies helped or hurt by fast science? Even selective, expert use proved problematic. Our interview with @nicholasevans.bsky.social explains why. www.the-geyser.com/pod-intervie...

It's been a time of freaks and geeks. www.the-geyser.com/freaks-and-g...

While marketing departments blithely push survey results about AI in science, editors and readers are fighting a losing battle. www.the-geyser.com/ai-surveys-o...

Preorder available, and we can hardly wait!

Has scientific publishing combined OA and AI into an affirmation business, with no demands for evidence or fidelity with reality? www.the-geyser.com/our-new-affi...

A great and important essay in the @theatlantic.com about how tech erodes our humanity. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

A great interview with Jason Steinhauer. "Terrorist organizations around the world right now have 'Chief AI Officers.' That thought alone should be very sobering for all of us." revisionsjournal.com/en/page/is-a...

Always good to take scientific claims with a grain of salt. When they come from OA sources, increasingly you need this.

"Give me back my phone-brain so I father can be parent good." 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sVX...

Our song of the week. www.the-geyser.com/friday-song-...

I think this guy might like our book. We certainly see his points!

Started/Going in Louisiana, home of Bill Cassidy, MD (R) who voted to confirm RFK Jr.

Our new site pulls together all our efforts. www.disruptedscience.com

This week’s discoveries — our text thread with some comments. www.the-geyser.com/this-weeks-t...

“Synthetic text extrusion machines” = STEM. One of our favorite — among many — moments from our interview with @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social about AI, science, and so much more. www.the-geyser.com/pod-emily-be...

“We’ve arranged a society on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology, and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces.” — Carl Sagan

lol no they absolutely will not, for so many reasons I'd bet everything I own that in 20 years there will never be more than 1000 people in space at any one time. (It'll probably be well under 100.) Nobody will be living there with their kids. Tech billionaires don't know a damn thing about tech.

Today it’s @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social — authors of “The AI Con” — and why science is in the crosshairs. www.the-geyser.com/pod-emily-be...

This is a figure from disgraced physician Peter McCullough’s report claiming that vaccines cause autism. The red line, added by me, depicts maternal consumption of pumpkin spice products. His group still does not understand correlation vs causation.

She captures the feeling perfectly!

Want a preview of our table of contents? Add a little Star Wars crawl effect, and here you go. youtu.be/IwHR0L12ips

We cover this — and what led up to it — in our forthcoming book.

Bad bets will kill GAI. www.the-geyser.com/ai-finances-...

The focus on AI as a solution diverts attention from OA as the cause. There were no paper mills until it became profitable to construct them. www.chemistryworld.com/features/ai-...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

There is reason for hope . . .

Wiley chases business fads, and AI is the latest. The outcome seems predictable. www.the-geyser.com/wiley-ai-coy...

This is the fun part. www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-th...

Still a solid interview. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

We're already #61 in Science on Amazon.

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

An honest reading of publisher hype shows that AI is losing scientists, not gaining ground. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Pre-orders are now up for our book! www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-th...

“I didn’t go to library school to be tech support for digital capitalism.” UW-LAX librarian Mike Olson discusses how the library world's equivalent of Big Tech is ruining his profession and generally fouling things up. www.the-geyser.com/podcast-inte...

Enjoy our text thread every week. Here’s this week’s summary. www.the-geyser.com/this-weeks-t...

Have librarians become tech support workers for @clarivate.com and @elsevierconnect.bsky.social? We discuss with Mike Olson. www.the-geyser.com/podcast-inte...

A great interview about Big Tech library systems with Mike Olson from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. The @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social gets a mention. Don’t miss this one! www.the-geyser.com/podcast-inte...

@jama.com and @jamapediatrics.com still have not retracted this eugenics-adjacent paper full of bad data by known MAHA grifters. A reminder of how even good publishers can become culpable for the resurgence of bad ideas. (And, of course, the authors paid to publish.) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Kudos to @profgalloway.com for a great line: "The man running this country lies in an unmarked grave, and his name is Jeffrey Epstein."

Perhaps the headline of the year. No accident it's related to the book of the year by @adambecker.bsky.social davekarpf.substack.com/p/here-lies-...

Anthropic is going bust while exhibiting the kind of tech hubris that bodes ill. www.the-geyser.com/claude-comes...

When academics are skeptical of “AI,” they find empty promises based on misleading rhetoric. www.the-geyser.com/the-misleadi...

Spotted at a #nokings rally yesterday!