This Week’s Texted Discoveries
We are constantly sharing relevant stuff we find — here’s this week’s fetch
We published in Nature Medicine in 2025 for free. In 2026, it cost us $12,850
In 2025, Elizabeth Selvin and her colleagues published in Nature Medicine for free. In 2026, it cost them $12,850, she writes.
Elizabeth Selvin
We submitted an LTE in response because she gets so much wrong.
RFK Jr. demands journal explain removal of vaccine study used to support his childhood immunization changes
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is demanding answers from a science journal on why a study regarding vaccination and sudden infant death was removed from the publication. …
Joseph Choi
"Demands" — kiss my Aunt Fannie.
1345: David Epstein | How Constraints Make Us Better
Podcast Episode · The Jordan Harbinger Show · June 16 · 1h 30m
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
More than 200 of the world’s elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.
Dell Cameron and Yulia Almazova
Journal investigating paper on cognitive impact of generative AI
A paper about the effects of generative AI use on confidence in work tasks is under investigation after critics raised questions about the study design, data analysis and ethics approval for the re…
Lauren Schneider
This one is embarrassing all around.
This is some real human sleuthing.
The 3-Pronged Attack on Scientific Communication (opinion)
At the NIH, political appointees exercise extensive control over scientific communication, and research on health communication is under siege.
Alexa Romberg,Sylvia Chou
Cancer falsehoods and rumors are killing people
False hope, online incentive structures, and broken trust make cancer misinformation so hard to stop.
Matthew Facciani, PhD
Real science is cool.