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There Is No Peer Review Crisis

Stop trying to solve for X when the answer is Why

01 Sep 2026 3 min read

Zenodo’s DOIs Spread AI Lies

Alex Pretti got smeared by an AI “ghost” scientist who spreads lies using DOIs

31 Aug 2026 4 min read

High On Their Own AI Supply

AI billionaires, unqualified health experts, and marketing as science

24 Aug 2026 5 min read

Is arXiv Becoming aiXiv?

The AI-powered degradation and enshittification of arXiv is well underway

14 Jul 2026 2 min read

Sloppy With Cyberlibertarianism

The rhetorical tricks of the ideology jump out when you know what to look for

13 Jul 2026 3 min read

Anti-Vax Grifts Amid Tragedy

The depths to which some anti-vax people will sink are simply godawful

08 Jul 2026 3 min read

Pump-and-Dump Preprinting

Another bad comparison of preprints and papers also seeks crypto profits?

06 Jul 2026 3 min read

Open Science Drowns Science

Open data and OA publishing have proven a combination toxic to the truth

29 Jun 2026 2 min read

Should We License Publishers?

We once had the protection of a business model, but with that gone . . .

24 Jun 2026 3 min read

Meatheads at medRxiv, JACC

Krumholz gets tangled up in his brands yet again, this time over carnivore diets

01 Jun 2026 3 min read

Project 2025 Comes Knocking

Commitment to “the cause” may soon face a test as OA money peels away

26 May 2026 4 min read

medRxiv Made the Monsters

Preprinters boast about saving a scrap of land from the creatures they made

11 May 2026 3 min read

Where Is the Outrage?

After decades of activism, OA advocates fall silent when science is silenced

06 May 2026 2 min read

Case Mysteries, LLM Mysticism

Journal-to-journal transmission is now occurring as the paper planting continues

04 May 2026 8 min read

Processed Gossip Is Not Gospel

Assumptions about the purpose and ambit of medical journals are all wrong

23 Apr 2026 6 min read

Will “AI Stings” Also Fail?

Strong incentives can overcome evidence of problems for years and years

21 Apr 2026 2 min read

The Grinch Who Tried OE

OpenEvidence proceeds to answer a question only a Grinch would ask

01 Apr 2026 2 min read

“Not Great Science”

The EIC of the JAMA Network elaborates on a bad paper, adding fuel to the fire

12 Mar 2026 5 min read

Bad, Bad Bhattacharya

A recent interview reveals the NIH/CDC Director to be an empty suit — or worse

03 Mar 2026 3 min read

OpenEvidence Targets Users

A hot medical LLM relies on a revenue model known to corrupt

02 Mar 2026 6 min read

OpenEvidence Takes Colostrum

AI slop can start with OA slop, and OpenEvidence is willing to spew out both

17 Feb 2026 6 min read

ARMRA’s “Science” Is OA Ads

83% of articles cited in their main “research” areas were published pay-to-play

16 Feb 2026 4 min read

The “Automated Box of Confusion”

Cut for space from our forthcoming book, it’s a concept at the heart of it all

15 Jan 2026 4 min read

Bring Back the Velvet Ropes

Quality scientific journals need bouncers

13 Jan 2026 4 min read

Can You Retract from an LLM?

Atomized, tokenized, and weighted, papers may not be addressable anymore

29 Dec 2025 10 min read

MAHA and Science Platforms

An exposé on MAHA trademarks reveals a lot of ambitions in the science space

23 Dec 2025 2 min read

aiXiv — Nothing Is Right About It

Agents with human IDs generating fake papers, and PhD students running amok

12 Dec 2025 4 min read

AI on NEJM — Broken Branding

Who really wanted this in the first place? What is the brand damage?

11 Dec 2025 3 min read

Krumholz, the CDC, and Vaccines

Another anti-vax preprint, and an associate of React19 comes up in testimony

18 Sep 2025 5 min read

Welcome to “Gaslight Journals”

Opportunists and conspiracists are launching journals to mislead the public

12 Jun 2025 5 min read

What Is CZI Really Up To?

Perceived as a charity, its essential nature is something else entirely

29 Apr 2025 6 min read

The medRxiv Tale Gets Weirder

The medRxiv vaccine injury story expands to include the Supreme Court and more missing disclosures

14 Apr 2025 5 min read

SPARC Gives Up on “Equity”

SPARC struck equity language from its site — even before the Inauguration

03 Feb 2025 3 min read

Does OA Feed Fascism?

OA is not just another business model, but something far more pernicious

02 Dec 2024 7 min read

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