"Even"? So you expected the opposite?

Schneider Shorts 17.04.2026 – Saving the planet never tasted this good Schneider Shorts 17.04.2026 – an anti-aging clinical trial with bonus eye-cancer, a papermiller turns to full-time mushrooming, an artist-scientist educates a youngster, German and Canadian c…

Schneider Shorts 17.04.2026 – Saving the planet never tasted this good
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What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason

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But I can diagnose cretinism for authors of such papers!

More Americans doubt vaccine safety than trust it, POLITICO Poll finds Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s views are commonplace across the land.

Misinformation is a formidable force.

46% of US adults surveyed last month signaled that they think the science on vaccines remains “up for debate” & is damaging to require people to get them.

We have an HHS secretary who likes to chop off rodent genitalia.

🧪 www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Why funders shouldn’t withdraw money from open access publishing Cancer Research UK’s decision to stop funding article processing charges marks a significant shift in how they approach open access. In its April 1st announcement (not an April Fool), the org…

"Much of OA policy is grounded in an ideology that treats everything as a market problem to be fixed through market instruments....neoliberal logic that gave rise to APCs"

Whether or not you agree with the main thrust of this article, the above is accurate. 1/2 www.samuelmoore.org/2026/04/14/w...

Apologies - I read "embeds" as ads embedded in videos (which Ublock does catch). Since your problem appears to be with actually embedding videos, my post is indeed not helpful.

Generally, a combo of a browser that ends in fox and a blocker that ends in origin solves this issue completely (or almost completely).

Whoa, the journal even rejected the comment. That's borderline criminal (and not "self-correcting").

Tagging @forbetterscience.bsky.social - maybe this could get even more exposure.

Also, @indexcat-ai.bsky.social thinks the original paper cites a LOT of junk:

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Unfalsifiable by Design: A Year of Trying and Failing to Reproduce a Human Microbiome and Autism Study The myth of open data, reproducibility, responsibility, and accountability in science, and your role in it

How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism:

merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...

Burning trees as a "renewable energy" solution to climate change is as idiotic as lighting your garage on fire to save your burning house.

How did it get legitimized? Partially through the biomass energy "research". Cargo cult science in action.

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And I bought it! On purpose, of course. It would be my forth attempt to test magnesium taurate. (Fifth will follow, but it formally looks fine)

So make your guesses!

#chemsky #chemchat #SupplementsSaga

Holy shit. I don’t have words for how corrupt this is. Keep in mind, the Ukraine whistleblower is still anonymous. And Gabbard kept a whistleblower report from Congress about a call between foreign intel agents discussing someone close to Trump and Iran. @andrewbakaj.bsky.social

But he says he restored science!

Last month in The Onion:

“Game-changer” breast cancer study retracted as Indiana researcher out of his post A group of cancer researchers whose work has been questioned by sleuths has been hit with their third retraction in less than a year.   Today, Science Translational Medicine (STM) withdre…

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Prior reporting: forbetterscience.com/2021/04/19/x...

Holodomor genocide denial is rampant and despicable. Please, if you see accounts spreading denial, recommend this free online course as push back: holodomor.ca/new-online-c...

russian science is the best, we must respect and admire it.

Video ‘They didn’t even know what we did’: Former official on DOGE cuts that gutted USAID | Whistleblower Aid Congratulations to our client Nicholas Enrich on the publication of his new book, "Into the Wood Chipper"! In this interview with ABC News, Enrich, a former USAID Acting Assistant Administrator of Global Health, describes finally getting a chance to explain the 60-year-old agency's health work the day *after* his team was let go. “I just gave a high-level overview,” Enrich says. The top brass, he discovered, didn’t know what USAID did. “‘These are the infectious diseases we work on. Here's what we do in maternal and child health…’" he says he explained. "And the chief of staff looks at...

"I had no idea that USAID did this kind of work," USAID's chief of staff told our client, former USAID Global Health chief Nicholas Enrich, as he described the agency's life-saving programs. "I just assumed it was just abortions." Which USAID never funded. More:
https://ow.ly/PPyh50YITax

Because free speech and gold standard science.

CDC Caught Burying Report on Real Effects of COVID Vaccine Tipsters revealed the acting director for the Centre for Disease Control is blocking publication of a pro-vaccine research article.

“Jay Bhattacharya, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has secretly blocked publication of a report that concludes COVID-19 vaccines are a significant boost to public health.”
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Linocut print ‘Feynman Diagram Bauhaus’ is a hand-carved and printed variable edition on cream-coloured Japanese washi paper, 8" by 10" with a jumble of Feynman diagrams and coloured shapes with a Bauhaus feel. Shapes include circles, rings, triangles, stripes, semicircles and irregular semicircles under wiggly lines. Colours are tints of fuchsia, blue-green, blue, yellow and purple with Feynman diagrams in black lines.

April 14 has been designated World Quantum Day in honour of Planck’s Constant which can be rounded to h~ 4.14×10−15 eV·s (and some folks write April 14 as 4/14*). 🧪🐡🎢 Planck’s constant comes up a lot in quantum mechanics; for instance a photon’s energy is h times its frequency). 🧵

Turned on NBC. They talked about “President tipping a DoorDash driver $100”.

This woman participated in GOP ads before playing other roles. There is no DoorDash deliveries to the Oval Office. Please exercise proper judgement when consuming news.

US chemists worried by chilling effects of Trump’s second term Researchers are concerned about funding cuts and self-censorship

The Trump administration has announced its plans for further cuts up to 55% to some federal funding agency budgets.

In response, chemists have shared their dismay – many anonymously to prevent negative repercussions.

www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/us-c...

This (zenodo.org/records/1945...) is one of the worst examples of complete horseshit, packaged in the trappings of science, that I have every seen.

If they want to study these compounds scientifically, fine (with appropriate IRB approvals), but this is not that.

New Oncotarget paper seems to have some problematic references... possibly due to LLM use. Don't they check for that?

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What are those "benefits"?

Trump today declared that Mother Teresa was a socialist- always looking for a handout. Nasty woman.

Bhattacharya's approach to dialog:

Bhattacharya told the conservative publication Just the News that his policy [free speech] did not apply to Norton because she’s a program officer and “not in a scientist position.”

Program officers are scientists, with PhDs or MDs. Norton has a PhD and an MPH.

Recipe Blogging: Chicken Paprikash

The weather may be getting a bit warm for this dish, but if you feel like celebrating a Hungarian victory and a Trumpy defeat: