Archive for August 2024

Research-integrity watchers had already suspected that citations are for sale at paper mills, services that churn out low-quality studies and sell authorship slots on already-accepted papers, says Cyril Labbé, a computer scientist at Grenoble Alpes University in France. “Paper mills have the ability to insert citations into papers that they are selling,” he says. In November 2023, analytics firm Clarivate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, excluded more than 1,000 researchers from its annual list of highly cited researchers because of fears of citation gaming and ‘hyper-publishing’.

“Without the staffing crisis, we would have plenty of PRTF beds,” said Laura Howard (above), secretary for the Department for Children and Families and the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services…. She said the Legislature has made investments to the foster care system, but not enough in services that might deal with the mental and behavioral problems that land so many kids in the system.

The rollout of these products is a psychological experiment on a massive scale. It should worry all of us — and not just for the reasons you might think. Emotional reliance on AI isn’t a hypothetical risk. It’s already happening.

The study used data collected by the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) — also known as Children of the 90s — and included a total of 6,556 participants of whom 50.4% were female. Inflammation was identified by increased levels of the general inflammatory marker C-reactive protein (CRP) recorded in participants at ages 9, 15 and 17 years. Of the two groups identified with persistently raised inflammation throughout their developing years, the researchers discovered that it was the group whose CRP levels peaked earlier in childhood, around age 9, that were most associated with subsequent higher risks of depression and psychosis at age 24.

Is it time to legalise and tax widely used drugs like cannabis which are no longer being prosecuted by the authorities and to give the money to the NHS​?