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How generative AI will ruin science and academic research

Johan Eddebo Background: the epistemology of modern mass media I often come back to Neil Postman’s 1985 classic Amusing Ourselves to Death. It’s a penetrating analysis on the cognitive effects of media technology. His focus is mainly on how the format and mode of communication influences the character of content and how that content then trains us, …

Scientific Peer-Review Isn’t Working and I Will No Longer Be Part of It

Scientific peer-review is failing science, says Peter Civan. After peer-reviewing papers for 10 years, Dr Civan says he is no longer willing to support a system that serves only the interests of publishing businesses.
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‘Afrochemistry’ Course Shows That Even the Hard Sciences are Falling to the Woke Ideologues

Identity politics has corrupted academic disciplines, says Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, and the arrival of an 'Afrochemistry' course at a U.S. university shows that even the hard sciences are not immune.
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