Top Posts of the Summer
A quick review of a summer full of efforts to upend and hurt scientific integrity
The summer of 2025 may well go down as one of the strangest for science in centuries, and documenting it has taken a special kind of effort for all involved.
Here are some of the posts from this summer that seem worth elevating again:
- SPARC to Become a Non-profit — bless their hearts
- Is It Now MAHARxiv? — Joe Rogan and another bad medRxiv preprint
- Not Even $1 Million of Evidence — Heathers is underfunded to stop fakes
- Welcome to “Gaslight” Journals — MAHA starts polluting the literature
- Is It Time for CC-Bye-Bye? — decades in, and Creative Commons is a dud
- Altman Makes Science Claims — the ignorance, the arrogance, the malfeasance
- The NIH Comes for High APCs — ditto
- NIH Head — Publishing Is Free! — yeah, it works here too, so “ditto” again
- Fascism Comes to the Farm — “feed the world” meets racism and xenophobia
- Now It’s “Gaslight” Preprints — journals are hard work, preprints be easy!
- Substack, Nazis, and “Gaslight” — Substack caught kissing Nazis in the gaslight
- The Shooting at the CDC — a horrible event greeted with a shrug by MAHA
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- Are We Ready for “Gaslight Journals”?
- Is AI Leading Us Down the Wrong Road?
- Substack, Ghost, and the New Gray Literature
- The Coming AI Winter
- The Dumbest Ad Business
- Interview with Jason Steinhauer, Author of “History, Disrupted”
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