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Feed on BlueskyExcited to present a new preprint with @nkgarg.bsky.social: presenting usage statistics and observational findings from Paper Skygest in the first six months of deployment! 🎉📜 arxiv.org/abs/2601.04253
The Illinois State House just passed HB 5511, a bill that will require EVERY WEBSITE and EVERY APP to implement an age verification check. @govpritzker.illinois.gov has pushed this hard and it’s Meta’s preferred solution to avoid liability. Votes here. CALL YOUR REPS! www.ilga.gov/Documents/le...
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A researcher invented a disease called “bixonimania” and wrote clearly bogus articles on Medium and arXiv about it, referencing Starfleet Academy, Sideshow Bob, and the Fellowship of the Ring. Within months, major AI apps were diagnosing users with bixonimania. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
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Offline: Those one should not forgive
What was even more shocking than a US President telling pregnant women, “Don’t take Tylenol [paracetamol, acetaminophen], don’t take it…fight like hell not to take it”, was watching the Director of th...
In another massive data set of more than 1.5 million children born between 1997 and 2022, the use of Tylenol during pregnancy was NOT associated with autism, even after accounting for individual risk factors. Autism was diagnosed in 1.8% of children exposed to Tylenol and 3% of the unexposed group.
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BREAKING: We're suing federal immigration agents on behalf of Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz, a legal U.S. resident who was racially profiled and violently abducted in Maine in January. Agents violated his Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights and must be held accountable.
Acetaminophen/Tylenol use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis. This suggests associations observed in other, less rigorous analyses may have been attributable to familial confounding (aka erroneous finding):
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Acetaminophen Exposure During Pregnancy and the Risk of Autism in Offspring
This cohort study evaluates the potential association between prenatal acetaminophen exposure and risk of autism in Danish national registers.
RFK Jr. has been told to STFU about vaccines, but the public needs to know that he continues his agenda to dismantle US vaccine policy through his surrogates. His attorney and buddy, Aaron Siri, wants to further undermine vaccine recommendations from the CDC. One of his targets is HPV vaccines.
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Nine-Valent HPV Vaccination and Related Cancers
This cohort study examines associations of the 9-valent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine with HPV-related cancers in males aged 9 to 26 years.
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Collaborative Text Editing with Eg-walker: Better, Faster, Smaller
Collaborative text editing algorithms allow several users to concurrently modify a text file, and automatically merge concurrent edits into a consistent state. Existing algorithms fall in two categori...