TFW you wrote your paper with ChatGPT, and then the professor asks you to explain it…

The title says it all. I'll add that this is entirely self-inflicted and will get much worse as the consequences compound in the years to come. "Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant as the US is unequipped to respond to infectious disease health scare" www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

TheESP – Ep. #530 – Don't Use Pitchforks! theesp.eu/podcast_arch...

Und für meine deutschen Follower: Laura und ich haben gestern noch eine Folge "Pandemia" aufgenommen dazu. Hier für alle (weil aktuell): podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/p...

Blooming Rhododendrons in the Dutch forests.

Windmills look best in Spring

Spring in Tuscany

Gesellschaft der Ärzte, Wien 13.5.2026, 19:00 – 19:45 Uhr „Sogenannte Alternativmedizin – Nutzen und Risiken am Beispiel Homöopathie“ Edzard Ernst, Emeritus Professor, Universität Exeter, UK EINTRITT FREI

Toll, daß es Unternehmer wie Raoul #Roßmann gibt, die sich so klar zur #AFD positionieren. hannover.t-online.de/region/hanno...

Some important lessons from @philippmarkolin.bsky.social about what we all need to do now to fight back against the attacks on science. www.protagonist-science.com/p/we-need-to...

Schermerhorn was full of tulips this year again. With its windmill backdrop it's always a hot spot in the season. I loved this composition with this different guy in between the red tulips.

TheESP – Ep. #529 – Get Your Tickets! theesp.eu/podcast_arch...

This paper was retracted from the @nejm.org because the images of bronchial branching after smoke inhalation were obviously and transparently manipulated by generative AI. Look at the ruler. I don't even know what lesson to draw from this. www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

The FBI arrested scientist David Morens today, prosecuting the Trump administration's batshit conspiracy theories about COVID-19. www.science.org/content/arti...

Tulip Wave in the Netherlands

Good god. Trump fired the entire National Science Board without explanation on Friday afternoon.

Aerial angles of the tulip church.

Congratulations to @theresluethi.bsky.social for her prize in the Science category at the Swiss Press Awards! She won it for her article exploring the (undue) success of COVID lab-leak hypotheses in the media and public sphere Her article: www.tagesanzeiger.ch/covid-warum-... #covidorigin 🧪

Check out our latest #ScienceCounterpunch We unpack why astronomy and astrobiology attract so much distortion, how careful speculation differs from storytelling dressed up as science, and what it means to communicate uncertainty without killing curiosity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT3S...

I´d really appreciate a 600% drop of #Trump & #RFK Jr. explaining #math on TV.

Katherina #Reiche: "Ich war nie in der Gaslobby tätig."* Tatsächlich war Reiche noch am Tag ihrer Vereidigung als Lobbyistin der Eon-Tochter Westenergie im Lobbyregister aufgeführt. Unsere Recherche 👇 www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/recherchen/l....

How it started / how it’s going — Jay Bhattacharya edition. 2025: “We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree" 2026 : Bhattacharya “has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits”.

In our book Calling Bullshit, we talked about some of the ways people create misleading narratives by judiciously choosing how to calculate percentages. "Making up utterly nonsensical shit" was not among the methods we addressed. Gift link,

Trump University has just found its Dean of Mathematics.

The documentary "2000 Meters to Andriivka" is a harrowing, up-close portrait of the war in #Ukraine. One must hope that one day, the cold-blooded people responsible for all this suffering, death and destruction will be brought to justice. www.2000meterstoandriivka.com

I debunked the “An Inconvenient Study” documentary. It was bad. I had a bad time. But the video turned out great. May my sacrifice help you in your fight against anti-vaccine influencers. youtu.be/KhRZFw2DCBI?...

In der Europäischen Impfwoche machen wir darauf aufmerksam, wie wichtig der Schutz vor Grippe ist – besonders für Menschen mit erhöhtem Risiko. Im Forschungsprojekt IMPRESS schauen wir genauer hin: Was bewegt Risikogruppen zur Grippeimpfung und was hält sie davon ab? Mehr erfahren: 👉 rki.de/impress

The light in the Haller forest earlier this week was unreal.

Now out in German cinemas. If you want to get the deeds behind the Covid-19 origin; and the controversy surrounding it; this might be the movie to watch. Alternatively, somebody from the movie also wrote the definitive book on the topic too 😅 www.lab-leak-fever.com

📰 | War’s das? Nina Warken deutet Kassen-Aus für Homöopathie an War's das endlich? Die Bundesgesundheitsministerin macht keinen Hehl mehr daraus, dass Homöopathie raus muss aus der Kassenerstattung. Bernd lässt im #SkeptixBlog schon mal die Sektkorken knallen.

Es wird ja immer von einer Aufarbeitung der Coronazeit gesprochen, die notwendig sei. Tatsächlich kommt sie langsam voran. www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2...

TheESP – Ep. #527 – Spiritual Beliefs with Dr Kat Ford theesp.eu/podcast_arch...

Die Dokumentation "Blame" zeigt die gefährliche Erosion des Vertrauens in die Wissenschaft. Der Kinofilm begleitet führende Forscher, die vor der Pandemie warnten und schließlich selbst zur Zielscheibe von Desinformation und Verschwörungsmythen wurden. hpd.de/artikel/wenn...

Keine Erstattung mehr für Homöopathie. Leistungen ohne wissenschaftlichen Wirksamkeitsnachweis sollen aus dem Leistungskatalog der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung gestrichen werden. Ein Beispiel nennt die zuständige Ministerin konkret: Homöopathie.

Warum gibt es eigentlich praktisch keine #Ärzte die damit werben, KEINE unbelegten, sog. "alternativen #Heilmethoden" anzubieten?

Kann mir mal jemand erklären, für welche Zielgruppe Katherina #Reiche ihre #Energiepolitik macht?! Würde mich interessieren.

Schwierig. Die rechte Figur könnte auch ein Homöopath sein.

In der neuen Folge "Pandemia" erzähle ich Laura vom “Disinformation Summit” in Cambridge. Es geht um den Unterschied von Misinformation und Desinformation, um russische Kampagnen, Klimawandel und wie Algorithmen unseren demokratischen Diskurs verzerren. 🎧 Hier: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

TheESP – Ep. #526 – Fat Banished! theesp.eu/podcast_arch...

Mit dieser Karikatur von Miné aka Jasmin Nölling wünschen wir Euch ein schönes Wochenende! #SpottSeiDank

Tomorrow on #ScienceCounterpunch, we will talk to friends of the podcast, kindred spirits and premiere guru decoders @ckava.bsky.social and @arthurcdent.bsky.social. They found a way to turn their curiosity into an entertaining project that dunks on grifters while helping to sanitize the discourse.

Thought after reading the headline: wow, this sounds weired & quite disgusting. Thought after reading the whole article: wow, #science is great. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In ihrem aktuellen FAZ-Gastbeitrag beklagt Katherina Reiche eine "Selbsttäuschunug" in der Energiepolitik. Tatsächlich fällt der Täuschungsvorwurf aber teilweise auf sie selbst zurück, denn der Text enthält diverse falsche oder irreführende Zahlen. Ein Thread. (1/17) www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

In March, Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "Scientific Freedom Lecture" at NIH, on a lab leak origin of COVID-19. The talk was so full of misrepresentations, omissions, falsehoods and lies that I will need several blog posts to debunk it. Here's Part I: pandemonium.hypotheses.org/995 🧪 #covidorigin

Our documentary movie #Blame comes to German cinemas in 10 days. If you want to see some of the unique footage, @3sat.zdf.social.ap.brid.gy Nano has some nice material for their reportage. Check out these 3 clips (I added EN translations) 1/

Folter, Kreuzigung, Kannibalismus: Gaga-Sekte feiert bizarres Splatter-Ritual www.der-postillon.com/2013/03/folt...

The administration's budget request would cut research funding for the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency by more than 50%. It's hard to imagine an external enemy causing more long-term damage to this country. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Modern authoritarianism doesn’t arrive with tanks. It announces itself with spreadsheets, budget cuts, accreditation fights, & the quiet capture of institutions most people barely notice—until they’re gone." @philippmarkolin.bsky.social w/ @chrischirp.bsky.social from UCL & UK's Independent SAGE.