The BS Detector
BenThe BS Detector is a newsletter about science, innovation, forecasting, and the value of skepticism.
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My Hantavirus Origin (Conspiracy) Theory
Disclaimer: I’m not a virologist, this is not health advice, read on at your own peril
1. Birder slander
By the time most people became aware of the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius, an origin theory had already calcified i...
We Carried Out the Red/Blue Button Experiment with Life or Death Stakes
Motivation
All that anyone wants to talk about these days is the red/blue button thought experiment. Unfortunately, a twitter poll isn’t a great proxy for life or death stakes. As many observers have noted, it’s easy enough to press t...
Geopolitics Slop is Ascendant
The Iran War might be the first international conflict where the narratives have largely been shaped by AI-written geopolitical analysis. Putting aside the issue of visual misinformation, AI-generated analytical content on the war appears t...
The Coming Apocalypse for Scientific Publishing
1. Antikythera
Trouble is brewing in the world of science. But first, a bit of history.
Before the mid 20th century, scientific publishing was disseminated primarily by scholarly societies. There was a countable number of journals, a...
The Nobel Committee is Hungry for Regime Change
1. The Great Thing
In order to understand how Nobel Peace Prizes are awarded, you have to go back to about the first century AD. As the Romans began to insert themselves more and more into the affairs of Northern Europe, sending armie...
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