Questions tagged [scientific-papers]
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Was the "Your Brain on ChatGPT" paper "engineered to mislead AI"?
I encountered this on Reddit r/ChatGPT (current score 940), but undoubtedly it's been shared elsewhere:
What if I told you this research paper was engineered to mislead AI, trick you, and prove its ...
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Have the Covid-19 vaccines caused more deaths than Covid-19 itself did?
A popular article by Steve Kirsch on his substack discusses the following:
A worldwide Bayesian causal Impact analysis suggests that COVID-19 gene therapy (mRNA vaccine) causes more COVID-19 cases ...
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Is an Instant Pot sufficient for "scientific sterilization"?
According to this promotional post by InstaPot,
Who knew that Instant Pot can provide scientific-grade sterilization? (Actually, we did.)
Swensen and her research team concluded that “store-bought ...
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Did Hippocrates make a statement similar to "like cures like"?
A number of homeopathic websites include the quote, "By similar things a disease is produced and through the application of the like is cured," but not one of them gives a source for the ...
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Have mathematicians concluded that an Indian mathematical physicist has solved the Riemann Hypothesis?
The Riemann Hypothesis is a mathematical hypothesis that describes the distribution of prime numbers. It is one of the seven Millennium Problems put forth by the Clay Mathematics Institute, notorious ...
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Are vaccinated children significantly less healthy than the unvaccinated, as recent study claims?
In their 2020 study termed "Relative Incidence of Office Visits and Cumulative Rates of Billed Diagnoses Along the Axis of Vaccination" [full text], appearing in the International Journal of ...
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Does Sci-Hub use malware and phishing to obtain researchers' login credentials?
There is a new BBC article, Police warn students to avoid science website about Sci-Hub, a pirate site to circumvent paywalls on science journals.
But Max Bruce, the City of London police's cyber ...
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When the WHO/CDC/NIH recommended wearing cloth masks, did they cite any scientific paper supporting their effectiveness?
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The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons asserts that cloth masks are not a way to meaningfully protect someone against COVID-19 nor against source-control. According to their ...
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Publication Bias in Climate Sensitivity Estimates
It is claimed by Rickova and Irsova, in a paper titled "Publication Bias in Measuring Climate Sensitivity" [A], that:
We present a meta-regression analysis of the relation between the ...
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How effective are face masks? [closed]
Actually, all the countries worldwide are discussing policies about face masks. Masks were, up to now, mainly used by surgeons, and now, all medical workers are working with masks. In Switzerland, my ...
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Did Euler make the elementary mistake √-2 √-3 = √6?
The following extract is from Tristan Needham's Visual Complex Analysis,
Even in 1770 the situation was still sufficiently confused that it was possible for so great a mathematician as Euler to ...
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Can skipping breakfast increase risk of heart disease? [closed]
This article from the clickbait off-shoot of The Independent newspaper, iNews (archive) states that:
Skipping breakfast on a regular basis could be linked to an increased risk of dying from heart ...
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Did The Lancet publish an account of a woman who did not age?
Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Christian Science religion, claimed in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures*, Ch. 8, p. 245:1-15:
The error of thinking that we are growing old, and the
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Whose account of the response to Michael Mann's original "hockey stick" analysis is correct?
New York has filed a lawsuit against several Big Oil firms on the grounds that they fomented contrarian opinion to undermine some findings in climate science.
In one part of the suit they claim the ...
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Does Susan Crockford have any scientific credentials related to polar bears?
A recent paper Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate-Change Denial by Proxy by a number of very well known climate campaigners/experts addresses some of the media controversy about the effect of ...
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