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Climate.gov, a major US government website supporting public education on climate science, will likely shut down after almost all of its staff were fired. What would be worse is if the website were co-opted to publish climate denial content. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/climate-website-shut-down-noaa

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associating one variable — for example, vitamin D levels or sleep quality — with a complex disorder such as depression or heart disease, ignoring the fact that these conditions have many contributing factors.
“We have a sudden explosion in publication rates [of papers] that are extremely formulaic that could easily have been generated by large language models ,” says study co-author Matt Spick, a #biomedicalscientist at the #UniversityofSurrey in Guildford, UK.

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