Rebecca C. Grossman

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Specialist registrar in general surgery and clinical research training fellow studying the circadian regulation of liver metabolism.

THREAD This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis 1/31

Adam Curtis Title Card: We Too Are Trapped In A System. Text over a background of a large office building

Andrew Wakefield’s MMR studies were published in 1998 and 2002. Vaccine coverage dropped steeply in the early 2000s. They recovered pretty well over the subsequent 10 years. It would be interesting to understand what methods worked to achieve this, as they start to slip down again.

MMR vaccine coverage in England at 24 months 1988-2022 showing dips at 2003-2004 and peaks at 1994 and 2014, and slow declines to approx 89% with WHO target at 95%.

What mechanisms are there to safeguard integrity of the search function in PubMed under a RFK Jnr controlled DHHS? We’ve already witnessed how search functions elsewhere can be completely manipulated to reduce access to science for political reasons. Can we take pubmed search for granted? #Medsky

Note for #Medsky newskies, Bsky doesn’t have blue checks, instead it lets you use a domain name as verification. For example, if JAMA has a Bsky account, it can have the account handle jamanetwork . com and you’d know that it was the real JAMA because only they could have that domain.

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