@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social I know it's silly but google AI gives some clues with sources...

Crowdsourcing: I'm looking for a reference to support the statement "RCTs are a cultural product". Any sociologists or philosophers of science know a good one? #philsci #healthpolicy THANKS!

Interessanter Background- und Recherche-Artikel über den neulichen Strom-Blackout auf der gesamten iberischen Halbinsel. Viele von uns haben ja irgendwo gelesen und verinnerlicht, dass das wohl alles mit dem erneuerbaren Flatterstrom zu tun habe. Doch das war alles wieder nur die übliche Energiewendegegner-Propaganda. Die Ursachenforschung geht zwar noch weiter, aber dass einfach nur die spanische Sonne zu viel Input geliefert hat, kann ausgeschlossen werden.
https://correctiv.org/faktencheck/hintergrund/2025/05/22/was-ueber-die-rolle-von-solarstrom-beim-blackout-in-spanien-und-portugal-bekannt-ist/

Loving this new paper on complexity in medicine, using pediatrics as the worked example. Too many medical authors (and the MRC) run fast and loose with the terms 'complexity' and 'complex interventions'. They should read this paper. #medsky #academicsky #philsci 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If things were simple, word wo...

dear mastodons, I am looking for a list of causal verbs and causal words in Italian for a study on health information in English and Italian. Found several in English, should I just translate them. Any pointer will be appreciated. #NLP #digitalhumanities #causation

How should numeric probabilities be translated into words? Maybe they shouldn't be.

"Words of estimative probability" wreak havoc in high-stakes communication like #intelligenceCommunity assessments and briefings, in part because intelligence and defense institutions map numbers to different words (!) — see Amelia Kahn's forthcoming work at ameliakahn.wordpress.com.

#defense #nationalSecurity #decisionScience #psychology #epistemology #xPhi #cogSci #SciComm #Communication #PhilSci

Interesting piece that challenges the metaphors we use (usually unconsciously) to describe biology:

"What I wish to point out is the lack of other metaphors. Precisely because no metaphor is perfect, we should employ multiple metaphors, each explaining certain aspects of the cell. Unfortunately, the centralised and hierarchical metaphor, so pervasive in textbooks, is often the only one for the internal workings of the cell."

#ScientificWriting
#PhilosophyOfScience

https://aeon.co/essays/biology-is-not-as-hierarchical-as-most-textbooks-paint-it

My viewpoint on socioeconomic factors, network mdicine, causal reasoning, AI etc. #immunology #philsci #epistemology #philosophyofscience https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2024.1349430/full

@PUH_ther @academicchatter I don't. Claims like "vitamin C boosts immunity" or "red wine gives longevity" I just call unfounded claims or misunderstanding of science, even though there are financial interests behind them and keep conspiracy theories only for 9/11 or vaccines and 5G stuff. BTW, vegetables, including spinach, are really very healthy.

Coverage in the @FT of the Sorbonne's move to OpenAlex! https://www.ft.com/content/89098b25-78af-4539-ba24-c770cf9ec7c3

Not for the doomers: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
https://www.science.org/content/resource/frontiers-medical-research-artificial-intelligence

How digital twins may enable personalised health treatment. Research is growing into computational models that will move medicine beyond what works on the average patient https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/12/digital-twin-personalised-medical-treatment

#toread Unmasking the Web of Deceit: Uncovering Coordinated Activity to Expose Information Operations on Twitter https://synthical.com/article/05b117eb-1878-439d-83a6-6e159536b9e3

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03398-4 Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist. This is the third high-profile retraction for Ranga Dias. Researchers worry the controversy is damaging the field’s reputation.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03483-8 WORLD VIEW
07 November 2023
The new Twitter is becoming a cesspit of disinformation — study it now

New ChatGPT detection technique just dropped! Search for "regenerate response". I'm not kidding. Lazy writers using ChatGPT are copy/pasting the full text off of the ChatGPT webpage, including the button text "regenerate response". So far 30 papers have been found with sentences/paragraphs randomly ending with "regenerate response".
https://retractionwatch.com/2023/10/06/signs-of-undeclared-chatgpt-use-in-papers-mounting/
#aisecurity #llmsecurity #chatgpt #retractionwatch

Future of the Internet | Between Law and Liberty

#explore #philosophy #literature #writer #politics #culture #money #democracy #art #arts #woke #reading #writing #writingcommunity #news #peace #unitednations #books #happiness #socialmedia #law #internet #life

https://medium.com/@gregoriusadvena/future-of-the-internet-1f008744a6ca

Intravenous Vitamin C is ineffective in patients hospitalized eith COVID-19. Not entirely surprising given that is worsen organ damage and increwses mortality in sepsis #antioxidants #antiossidanti https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2811212

What Polanyi explicates as a balanced set of academic incentives, is also relevant for our own, personal judgment.

People too good at critiquing society but not themselves will turn into crackpots.

People unsure of themselves but too trusting of a group or leader might become conformists or even authoritarian followers.

Scientific/epistemological virtue requires finding the "golden mean" between these extremes.

#Science #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience

@Doug_Bostrom I am not sure of what is defined as a "scientific study". If those are "publications", then there are over 30 million papers only on PubMed...