Science and skepticism
Steven SalzbergWritings about science, educating the public and fighting pseudoscience, with occasional forays into tech and other topics
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My conversation with Craig: how we decided to sequence the human genome
Craig Venter with my friend and former mentor, Hamilton Smith, in 2010.
Craig Venter, a pioneer in the field of genomics, died last week, from unexpected complications of cancer treatment. Craig was a transformative but controversial scien...
AI badly needs a dose of skepticism
First let me get this part out of the way: AI has made some amazing recent advances. The most obvious one is the ability of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Claude to engage in conversations about a wide range of topics, and to...
An Embarrassing Scandal for AI Research
Today I’m writing about an “inside science” topic, but it has broad significance. It’s about how AI’s dramatic progress might be much less than its proponents are claiming. Some of AI’s leading scientists, it appears, have been duped by the...
Making America Weak
An “own goal” in football (called soccer in the U.S.) occurs when a team kicks the ball into its own goal, scoring for the opponents. It’s usually very upsetting and embarrassing to the player responsible.
For the past year, the United Sta...
Functional Medicine is the New Paradigm
I’ve been hearing a lot about Functional Medicine lately, particularly since the Trump administration nominated a functional medicine advocate, Casey Means, to be the Surgeon General. (Many months later, she hasn’t been confirmed, so the po...
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Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of BME, CS, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University. Former Forbes contributor (2010-2024), contents from 2008-2024 at http://genome.fieldofscience.com and here on Substack. Lab page is salzberg-lab.org.
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