John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026For all its faults, this paper was written by a human but the age of hand-crafted nonsense is drawing to a close. The new age of computer-assisted drivel is upon us, the flow of nonsense swelling from a trickle to a flood. 162 6
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I was reminded of another paper, which could have benefited from a hefty dose of No but which was instead abetted by not just one sycophantic chatbot but four of them that give the crankery a superficial gloss. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/n...diagrammonkey.wordpress.comNot waving but drowningIt’s not often one gets a paper on uncertainty in estimates of ocean heat content written by a clarinettist whose wikipedia page has a section on their extra curricular activities that goes &… 140 4
John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Anyway. I don't have a very satisfying point here. In the whack-a-mole game of retracting bad papers, the number of mallets has stayed pretty much constant, but the number of moles has, for very obvious reasons, increased a thousandfold. 1142 14
