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26 Jul 2022 | News AI tools are now allowing so-called paper mills to trick journals with fake articles on an industrial scale. The issue risks scientific integrity and is beginning to get high level political attention. ut without the time, resources, or English language skills to do so...

bottom of NHS page = "This information was supplied by Serco Global Services on 27 July 2022" below which is a Report an issue with the information on this page hyperlink. Not sure what basis for a report would be but it's not clear how this 'service' could fit within the 2021 NICE Guideline.

Me being a pedant - Oldest Known Homo Sapiens Fossils Found I think it's not so much pregnancy itself being the inhibition, rather the care of multiple infants, or otherwise the cost of multiple failed pregnancies. There really isn't the data to deal with this with any certainty but life...

If it's a muscle and it is hurting - that is myalgia. There's no limitation on the type of pain, nor on the cause. What may be interesting is to tease out if possible, whether it is simply muscle or if other types of connective tissue (tendon, ligament, cartilage, skin etc) that are involved...

This is a really interesting article. There is one item I'm not so sure about: "However, the female system evolved over hundreds of millennia during which people were pregnant for much of their reproductive years. Because people have fewer children now than their ancestors typically did, their...

It depends how the uterus is conceived - as a self contained bucket in which an embryo develops, a female body is just a male body + expandable baby bucket. It's taken a lot of time to actually get away from that perspective, especially toward the understanding that the primate uterus is at the...

Joseph Roundtree Foundation, "From disability to destitution", 2022, Tom Clark and Peter Matejic "The official story on poverty among disabled people is bad enough. But new JRF analysis reveals that when it comes to the real essentials of life, like heating and food, the problem is far worse...

Twitter thread "The idea that large proportions of people will eventually get long COVID to me seems poorly thought-through for two main reasons"

Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland and NHMRC "Funding Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) provided funding for this study (Grant reference: Res16/A168). During the completion of this work, Maree Hackett was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development Fellowship...

886 > 188 > 76 > 64 > 39 > 23 ! Yes you can get 2.6% of a patient population to partially participate in a trial - but exactly what does that self selecting 2.6% represent ? The most well ? The most desperate ? The most bored ? 886 people and only 23 thought this was worth pursuing should be...

https://www.wordsense.eu/brain_fog/ "brain fog (uncountable) (informal) A mental condition in which the subject experiences problems in concentrating, thinking clearly, or remembering things. 1886, Mary Jane Holmes, Bessie's Fortune, G. W. Carleton & Co., page 261: Then, as the brain fog...

I think light sensitivity as part of the initial onset of migraine is fairly common but migraine itself is likely pathologically heterogeneous, so in both migraine and ME/CFS the symptom experience may be similar but the route to producing the symptom may vary between sufferers...

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Article: Science, Blots on a field ?, Charles Piller First para: "In August 2021, Matthew Schrag, a neuroscientist and physician at Vanderbilt University, got a call that would plunge him into a maelstrom of possible scientific misconduct. A colleague wanted to connect him with an attorney...

Seropositivity doesn't = illness, only past exposure to an infective agent. If health is impacted then a global patient population featuring 50+year old rural living males heavily concentrated in Eastern Asia (pop 1.7 bn) would make an interesting contrast to the current picture of Chronic...

Rather than anything substantive to me this paper feels like a Reformation era intra-sectarian counterblast where one group of theologians seeks to lay waste to another group that has suggested a particular scriptural interpretation is/is not heretical. Here's a more substantive counter...

Commiserations - it's always a bit depressing to find there's yet another form of garbage ME/CFS is going to throw at you. I'm not sure typical will show up here - my guess is that these 'sensitivities' get processed through the individual brain in somewhat individual ways. I'd experienced...

The 'nudge' concept has parallels with CBT, has appeared in Government policy “Nudge Unit” including in the area of welfare benefits: Nudging conformity and benefit sanctions: a state experiment in behaviour modification

PNAS Letter: Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Maier, Bartos, Stanley, Wagenmakers, 2022 First para: Thaler and Sunstein’s “nudge” (1) has spawned a revolution in behavioral science research. Despite its popularity, the “nudge approach” has been criticized for having a “limited evidence...

The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire !!! Why any work by Hans Eysenck should still be considered valid is incomprehensible: Work of renowned UK psychologist Hans Eysenck ruled ‘unsafe’ Personality and fatal diseases: Revisiting a scientific scandal, Pelsoi, 2019 Abstract During the 1980s...