Kim Patch
@kimpatch.bsky.social
Writer, editor, musician. Investigations project manager @us.theconversation.com.
Here's yet another thing to be paying attention to these days … theconversation.com/data-that-ta...
Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it
Detailed data that US government agencies collect and make available has underpinned research about people, medicine, science, crime, jobs, housing, climate and the economy.
theconversation.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Here's yet another thing to be paying attention to these days … theconversation.com/data-that-ta...
Latest PBS Frontline Transparency project: searchable, annotated transcripts for 20 source interviews from the Frontline documentary Trump’s Power & the Rule of Law. Ten of those have source video attached, so you can use the transcript to peruse the interview video. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
Trump’s Power & the Rule of Law | Interview Collection | FRONTLINE
To produce Trump’s Power & the Rule of Law, the FRONTLINE team conducted 20 new interviews with Trump allies, opponents, legal experts and
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August 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Latest PBS Frontline Transparency project: searchable, annotated transcripts for 20 source interviews from the Frontline documentary Trump’s Power & the Rule of Law. Ten of those have source video attached, so you can use the transcript to peruse the interview video. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
Here's The Conversation's Data Privacy series – it's stuff everyone should know: theconversation.com/topics/data-...
Data privacy series News, Research and Analysis - The Conversation
Browse Data privacy series news, research and analysis from The Conversation
theconversation.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Here's The Conversation's Data Privacy series – it's stuff everyone should know: theconversation.com/topics/data-...
Reposted by Kim Patch
Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.
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January 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
Reposted by Kim Patch
The Problematic Paper Screener filters 130 million new and old scholarly papers every week, looking for nine types of clues that a paper might be fake or contain errors: https://buff.ly/40z6cTT (@joelving.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com; @gcabanac.cpesr.fr, IRIT; Cyril Labbé, UGA) #AI
Problematic Paper Screener: Trawling for fraud in the scientific literature
Science sleuths are stepping up efforts to detect bogus science papers. This includes building tools that comb through millions of journal articles for signs of tortured phrases spawned by AI.
buff.ly
January 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The Problematic Paper Screener filters 130 million new and old scholarly papers every week, looking for nine types of clues that a paper might be fake or contain errors: https://buff.ly/40z6cTT (@joelving.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com; @gcabanac.cpesr.fr, IRIT; Cyril Labbé, UGA) #AI
Here's part 2 of The Conversation's series on Medicare Advantage – this is stuff everyone who uses Medicare might want to know – and also everyone who pays taxes … theconversation.com/taxpayers-sp...
Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage – the private alternative to Medicare that promised to cost less
Rather than finding efficiencies and saving money all around, the private companies that administer the Medicare Advantage option to Medicare are profiting at seniors’ – and taxpayers’ – expense.
theconversation.com
November 26, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Here's part 2 of The Conversation's series on Medicare Advantage – this is stuff everyone who uses Medicare might want to know – and also everyone who pays taxes … theconversation.com/taxpayers-sp...