This week’s sneak peek is a quote from two our favorite authors, @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social. Pre-order today. www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-th...

Lawsuits, pullback, and irrelevancy. The tech dream is ending, and that’s good news. www.the-geyser.com/the-oa-movem...

Pre-order your copy today. www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-th...

Song of the week. Show me your teeth! www.the-geyser.com/friday-song-...

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

@openevidence.bsky.social needs to show some ambition.

“Hundreds of hours of uncompensated labor…hate from many quarters, hostile press, internal bickering, weaponized leaking, sabotage…” Robert Malone says this is why he quit ACIP in a snit. The truth is that it’s much harder to actually do public health than to take potshots on social media.

A great conversation with Amanda Licastro about AI, LLMs, education, science, and scholarship. Don't miss it! www.the-geyser.com/interview-am...

You can't trust an LLM. hbr.org/2026/03/llms...

@jama.com counts clicks and citations but should be counting cavities and consequences. www.the-geyser.com/counting-the...

How many cavities per download? How much tooth decay per citation? @jama.com hath thum 'splain' to do. www.the-geyser.com/counting-the...

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

Google generates AI slop and changes headlines. What has discoverability mutated into? www.the-geyser.com/what-is-disc...

The 25th Amendment is real.

We have a free-rider problem. The future of science hangs by a thread and we will lose it unless we fight. Meanwhile, too many sit on the sidelines, saying "science is not political," "I am too busy," "I don't like activism," etc. Time's up. Out of the laboratories into the streets!

Robert Mueller III was a veteran and a patriot. May he rest in peace.

Another peek inside. Pre-order your copy today. www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-th...

Surprised to see a continuity error in “Project Hail Mary.” Don’t usually see those in big budget films.

“Section 230 is not one of the Ten Commandments,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) said in his opening remarks. “This idea that we can’t touch it, otherwise internet freedom incinerates, is preposterous.”

Playing the game, marketing the book. www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-th...

Song of the week: www.the-geyser.com/friday-song-...

@derekberes.bsky.social and @this-is-mallory.bsky.social not sure if you saw this but Jay Bhattacharya was a co-author on the JetBlue Covid denial paper, another example of him carrying water for business interests during COVID.

This quote from Melville seems apt, @whyshoulditrustyou.bsky.social and your “prudent” interviews. Try doing more homework, asking harder questions. Please.

Still laughing at this.

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

Our texted discoveries of the week. www.the-geyser.com/this-weeks-t...

Great actors reading aloud. @stephencolbert134.bsky.social has found a new lane. youtu.be/kSEMaPOOrU8?...

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Funders like @gatesfoundation.bsky.social and @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social have restructured scientific publishing, are now pulling up stakes, and leave behind a playbook for grifters. We discuss. www.the-geyser.com/pod-more-har...

Props to @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social and @ameracadpeds.bsky.social for their recent wins. And to @standupforscience.bsky.social for great rallies.

This chapter from our upcoming book references two powerhouse rock trios with incredible grassroots fan bases — @thewarningarmy.bsky.social and @rushfancast.bsky.social just as examples.

@openevidence.bsky.social needs human editors? Their latest move undermines the hype. Not a bad man, just a bad wizard. www.the-geyser.com/did-oe-just-...

Another peek inside the book. Pre-order your copy today. www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-th...

Bespoke preprint servers are being pushed out of academia as commercial options take over and the entire approach seems outdated. www.the-geyser.com/bespoke-prep...

The EIC of @jaccjournals.bsky.social has one of the problematic "vaccine injury" preprints he co-authored with React19 MAHA fraudsters cited in this new confidential ACIP garbage. We warned you and JACC about this guy. He's more Wakefield-adjacent than ever. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/h...

Withdrawing a preprint or a paper means nothing anymore, as these two case studies of MAHA-inspired anti-vax nonsense, PubMed Central, and CrossRef illustrate. www.the-geyser.com/pmc-and-a-wi...

😂😇 youtu.be/FUBVuvstPCs?...

WE HAVE A WINNER! The answers to our chapter heading quiz are: The Warning ("Hell You Call a Dream") and Rush ("Freewill"). Congrats to our free book recipient! Pre-order your copy today: www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-th...

Let's go! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

Want a free copy of our book? Name the two bands referenced in the heading for Chapter 9 via email at [email protected]. First correct answer for both band names wins.

Song of the week. www.the-geyser.com/song-how-soo...

Every time he’s President, the world goes to hell in a hand basket.

A talk by the @jama.com EIC at last month’s @aaas.org Annual Meeting is posted, putting a bad article back on the table. www.the-geyser.com/hey/?ref=the...

First look at our full dust jacket cover design. Sharp!

“Dr Levi has made a number of easily-disproved statements about his baseless belief that mRNA Covid-19 vaccines are harmful, despite having little or no education, training or experience in public health,” @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

MAHA got you worried about weed killer? @openevidence.bsky.social doesn’t know people from onions, and Organic Tarzan will sell you panties. Fun! www.the-geyser.com/got-glyphosa...

The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

@openaccessmaven.bsky.social Resigning soon from the @gatesfoundation.bsky.social?

A page from the index of our upcoming book. We love indexing.

A sensible history of disease and medicine, told in a way that reminds us what it was like to be able to think about science without political nonsense clouded our view. www.the-geyser.com/review-the-g...