Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex
@smutclyde.bsky.social
Hyperbolic Tangent Distributed Observer. Snark is my first language.
More accurately, studies "led some researchers to propose" LINKS "between the gut microbiome and autism."
A different link in each study.
It was like surveying religions around the world, each with its own pantheon, and concluding "yeah, gods must be real."
A different link in each study.
It was like surveying religions around the world, each with its own pantheon, and concluding "yeah, gods must be real."
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
More accurately, studies "led some researchers to propose" LINKS "between the gut microbiome and autism."
A different link in each study.
It was like surveying religions around the world, each with its own pantheon, and concluding "yeah, gods must be real."
A different link in each study.
It was like surveying religions around the world, each with its own pantheon, and concluding "yeah, gods must be real."
I feel that I *should* have a sense of what's going on in RFK's head (what with psychology training and my own psychopathic tendencies), but nope, it's a mystery, just random wormsign.
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I feel that I *should* have a sense of what's going on in RFK's head (what with psychology training and my own psychopathic tendencies), but nope, it's a mystery, just random wormsign.
I could have thanked "Rosewind, Social Media" in the Acknowledgements.
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I could have thanked "Rosewind, Social Media" in the Acknowledgements.
Some parts of it are very good!
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Some parts of it are very good!
It is merely coincidental that the field of environmental toxicology is dominated by absolutely bonkers individuals like Lawrence Lash and Aristides Tsatsakis.
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Lashing out at Toxicology Reports
“What exactly will Lash and Elsevier do with these 115 problematic papers? I can only expect a painfully inadequate response.” – Sholto David
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November 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
It is merely coincidental that the field of environmental toxicology is dominated by absolutely bonkers individuals like Lawrence Lash and Aristides Tsatsakis.
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I did read one paper that genuinely described (some cases of) autism as a kind of locked-in syndrome. Nope, nope, nope.
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I did read one paper that genuinely described (some cases of) autism as a kind of locked-in syndrome. Nope, nope, nope.
@deevybee.bsky.social @rosewind.bsky.social I finally finished writing a thing.
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A bit of Frye and Rossignol
“Trapped inside every autist, a normal child with normal cognition is struggling to get out – only needing the right drug or therapy to be released”, – Smut Clyde
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November 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
@deevybee.bsky.social @rosewind.bsky.social I finally finished writing a thing.
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The "serving suggestion" on the packaging is evidently "best served with your own chicken and sauce".
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
The "serving suggestion" on the packaging is evidently "best served with your own chicken and sauce".
People should stop talking about the absurdities and perversities of "late-stage capitalism". It's like 'hold my beer' - it encourages capitalism to come up with an even later stage.
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
People should stop talking about the absurdities and perversities of "late-stage capitalism". It's like 'hold my beer' - it encourages capitalism to come up with an even later stage.
"To meet AI demand" is here a term of art meaning "to allow us to force it on more people who don't want it".
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
"To meet AI demand" is here a term of art meaning "to allow us to force it on more people who don't want it".
Who knows what strange and deadly artefacts you will bring back from the Zone?
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Who knows what strange and deadly artefacts you will bring back from the Zone?
Enjoy! Relax!
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Enjoy! Relax!
Is that supposed to be a phylogenetic tree, or the Hand of Cthulhu?
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Is that supposed to be a phylogenetic tree, or the Hand of Cthulhu?
Just looking at it is giving me anemia.
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Just looking at it is giving me anemia.
if you see this post your getaway vehicle
November 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
if you see this post your getaway vehicle
It's always useful to have a convenient source of enchanted apples for when you want to poison Snow White.
November 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
It's always useful to have a convenient source of enchanted apples for when you want to poison Snow White.
So red wine does *not* cure erectile dysfunction after all. I am disappoint.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
So red wine does *not* cure erectile dysfunction after all. I am disappoint.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Artists' impression of the PubPeer Lament.
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Artists' impression of the PubPeer Lament.
Smad3 is only a loading control for p-Smad3 if they came from the same blot (by washing out and reprobing). Then they would have the same profile, which does not look like the case here.
November 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Smad3 is only a loading control for p-Smad3 if they came from the same blot (by washing out and reprobing). Then they would have the same profile, which does not look like the case here.
In this case the "traditional editorial process" consisted of the last author being the journal's Editor-in-Chief.
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
In this case the "traditional editorial process" consisted of the last author being the journal's Editor-in-Chief.
Another of MedChina / Jia-Li Liu's papermill products finally went away. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
My gob is smacked that he left *his own name* in the Word doc meta-data as he churned out these template constructions & sent them off. Don't they teach tradecraft in school these days
My gob is smacked that he left *his own name* in the Word doc meta-data as he churned out these template constructions & sent them off. Don't they teach tradecraft in school these days
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Another of MedChina / Jia-Li Liu's papermill products finally went away. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
My gob is smacked that he left *his own name* in the Word doc meta-data as he churned out these template constructions & sent them off. Don't they teach tradecraft in school these days
My gob is smacked that he left *his own name* in the Word doc meta-data as he churned out these template constructions & sent them off. Don't they teach tradecraft in school these days
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The Fribourg Declaration
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The Fribourg Declaration
“The papermill crisis is not an external attack on science but a mirror held up to its dysfunctional ecosystem. The for-profit publishing industry, posing as a newly found saviour of research…
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November 17, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The Fribourg Declaration
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