This Week’s Texted Discoveries
We are constantly sharing relevant stuff we find — here’s this week’s fetch
My First 72 Hours With OpenAI’s New Health GPT: Early Impressions — The Liz Army: Bringing punk rock to health care
As someone who has spent nearly two decades experimenting with digital health tools—personal health records, tethered portals, wearables, symptom trackers, oncology apps, research dashboards—I was excited to see what Health GPT could actually do for me.
Liz Salmi
RFK Jr.’s Eugenics-Coded Crusade
Survival of the fittest—a concept that’s been twisted and abused since its birth—could be a Trump administration motto.
Sarah DiGregorio
RFK, Jr., shifts focus to questioning whether cell phones are safe. Here’s what the science says
The possible health effects of radiofrequency waves emitted by cell phones has been a subject of debate for decades
Jackie Flynn Mogensen
Our favorite bogus preprint. Well, one of them . . .
How AI Is Reshaping Science’s Most Trusted Tool
Systematic reviews take a long time but are the gold standard in evaluating evidence and producing medical recommendations. AI could speed that up—in theory.
Benjamin Santos Genta
Nutrition Science’s Most Preposterous Result: Could Ice Cream Possibly Be Good for You?
Studies show a mysterious health benefit to ice cream. Scientists don’t want to talk about it.
David Merritt Johns
For Zeke.
A fantastic discussion.
I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too
If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.
Adrian Barnett
Someone is feeling entitled. Wonder why?
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
Cory Doctorow
Welcome to the Attachment Economy
How AI chatbots are turning human connection into the next extractive economy
Sasha Fegan
MDPI launches new ‘freemium’ model - Research Information
Initiative hopes to help smaller journals, particularly those in underserved markets and global south, with growth and impact
The predator is starting to run out of food.
OpenEvidence, the ‘ChatGPT for doctors,’ doubles valuation to $12 billion
OpenEvidence, based in Miami, has topped a $12 billion valuation in a funding round led by Thrive and DST.
Kate Rooney
Ah, this will be fun to watch. It may well end in tears.