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Michael Merrifield

@astromikemerri

Emeritus professor of astronomy at the University of Nottingham. All my own views. I mute stupid because your freedom of speech is mine not to have to listen.

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An interesting take-over bid by Spain for the now-unfunded US Thirty-Metre Telescope programme. Some work has already been done on siting the telescope on La Palma, when politics started making Hawaii problematic. Not so good in the far infrared, but certainly viable.

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There is no suggestion of misconduct here. The result is simply wrong. Surely journals should not be retracting papers for this reason? Although Nature would take up 80% less bookcase space if they did… apple.news/ANdFdQLYYT2KvR…

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Dear Rupert Lowe MP, Thank you for the swift action in pointing out that the DWP was advertising a role for a Sharia administrator. Could you please now turn your attention to this position that they are advertising. What kind of government would facilitate such misinformation?

Dear <a href="/RupertLowe10/">Rupert Lowe MP</a>,

Thank you for the swift action in pointing out that the DWP was advertising a role for a Sharia administrator. 

Could you please now turn your attention to this position that they are advertising. What kind of government would facilitate such misinformation?
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Dunning-Kruger syndrome has a new ally in biddable AI: there are people out there who think they have demonstrated expertise because they have convinced Grok to agree with their hare-brained theory.

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Dear person who has “done their own research”, Grok says that you shouldn’t believe it. Yours Faithfully, An actual scientist

Dear person who has “done their own research”,

Grok says that you shouldn’t believe it.

Yours Faithfully,

An actual scientist