#retracted

Twenty eight years ago, 28th February 1998, something horrible happened—something which has cast a baleful shadow of disease and suffering over the last almost three decades. A scientific paper was published. The lead author has been thoroughly discredited (struck from the medical register, revealed to be a fraud) and the paper itself has been retracted. But because of this paper, today (for me at least) marks the birth of the modern anti-vaccine era.

Which is why, on February the 28th, I wear black.

If any of my friends are unfamiliar with this awful, tragic, grim story then may I recommend HBomberguy’s video “Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response”. It’s detailed, accurate, gives credit where credit is due and is (and this is important in this time we live in) fucking funny. AND it has a “I ain’t got time to watch all that!” summary at the start…

dalksdjsalkd;fj i’m assuming that’s a followup to

Anonymous said:                                                                

Like do you have some kinda fetish for drama or are you just a pedo trying to deflect attention to someone else? Cuz thats what you sound like. Like what kind of freak brings up shit like that outta the blue?

So, uh, thanks for noticing and clarifying? Fortunately I wasn’t at my computer during this span of time so I got the ‘wrong person’ one first, even, so harm was averted. I absolutely would have been unable to resist the urge to comb through everything I’ve said for weeks trying to figure out what I was getting hated on for, vibrating anxiously that this might be only the first assay of a campaign, and I absolutely would not have guessed ‘wrong inbox’ ever.

😂😂😂 Gonna now shoot for making that my default reaction to hate this vague. ‘Huh, wrong inbox clearly, I need waste no emotion on this event other than mild amusement at some person’s error.’

You know, I actually have multiple fics where Batman discusses this as a reason for not allowing yourself to go around doing murders? Because eventually you’re going to kill the wrong person, due to mistaken identity or other bad information or because you made the wrong call about whether lethal force in this case was necessary or appropriate or even deserved. But too late, the consequences have already fallen, on someone who is not you.

And that’s not an outcome anyone should be okay with, which is why even if the Joker needs murdered Jason shouldn’t make a whole praxis of it, and why anon hate is generally just not a cool thing to do.

Study on Microplastic Particles to Be Retracted

The research article on consumption of microplastics by larval fish that was reported for misconduct in research will be retracted from the journal Science. The researchers behind the study themselves requested to retract the article at the end of last week, following sharp criticism of the study in an opinion from the Central Ethical Review Board.

Gu and his team asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT, running on the GPT-4o model, questions based on information from 21 retracted papers on medical imaging. The chatbot’s answers referenced retracted papers in five cases but advised caution in only three. While it cited non-retracted papers for other questions, the authors note it may not have recognized the retraction status of the articles. In a study from…

Whale Alert, a blockchain analytic platform, found itself in a retracting position after erroneously reporting a massive XRP transaction. The now-deleted post claimed a transaction of over $147 billion worth of XRP moving to Binance and Bitfinex. However, scrutiny revealed that the reported transaction amount surpassed the total XRP circulation of 54 billion. Subsequent blockchain data showed a similar but unsuccessful attempt on Binance involving 58.9 billion XRP. Whale Alert admitted misinterpreting Ripple node responses, leading to the erroneous posts and subsequently retracting the claim.