This Week’s Texted Discoveries
We are constantly sharing relevant stuff we find — here’s this week’s fetch
‘Mad honey’ that can stop your heart is now being sold online worldwide
The honey is being exported without the knowledge of the honey harvesters that keeps consumers safe.

The AI ‘Ghosts’ Contaminating Academic Publishing
“The academic record is being quietly haunted” by researchers with names like Elena Vasquez and Marcus Chen.

Bland new world: is AI making us all think the same?
Researchers worry that generative AI is homogenizing culture and cognition.

Who’s Afraid of Patient Self-education?
OpenEvidence plays into physician anxiety and knowledge gatekeeping

Gets a lot right, but not everything. Gatekeepers still matter, and anesthesiologists of all people should know that.
NIH Director Says a Lot. Critics Call Much of It Misleading
Jay Bhattacharya insists he wants to restore trust in the National Institutes of Health. Current and former agency employees say he’s doing the opposite.

US public libraries at ‘breaking point’ amid ideological attacks, report finds
PEN America study details verbal and physical threats to librarians, funding cuts and proliferation of book bans

Is Fake Fandom A Thing?
The debate over music creation, promotion & criticism.

A Conversation With … Kent R. Anderson MBA,... : Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research
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