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Mike Patterson

@mykle.bsky.social
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Multimedia journalist on Vancouver Island. Environment, global warming, climate change, equality, social justice.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The corruption never stops.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After heavy lobbying and huge donations from Big Tech, Trump killed a proposed Biden-era rule requiring AI companies to disclose their riskiest experiments to federal officials. Everything is for sale. This is worth a read: www.levernews.com/ai-regulation-was…
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AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest
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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The issue led to turmoil inside the Conservative Party of BC." #Kamloops #bcpoli #racism
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Trump: "We're gonna be signing a document today renaming artificial intelligence, because it's not artificial. We're gonna be naming it Super Intelligence. Officially renaming it."
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Mike Patterson @mykle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Earth beyond its Safe Operating Space. The planet's natural resilience is weakening: Global warming is accelerating, ecosystems are showing clear signs of degradation, and early warning signs of tipping points are emerging in key systems." #globalwarming #climate www.planetaryhealthcheck.org
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Planetary Health Check
We have breached 7 out of 9 Planetary Boundaries.The Planetary Health Check 2026 makes it clear: We have to act now.
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Mike Patterson @mykle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Justice Catherine Murray rules parts of Canada's Controlled Drugs and Substances Act are unconstitutional and Kalicum, Nyx and the Drug User Liberation Front reduced harms associated with the toxic drug crisis and didn't negatively impact community or public safety. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC News
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.
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Mike Patterson @mykle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ECCC report says warming and changes in Canada's climate are effectively irreversible. -Glacier melt and permafrost thaw will continue even after surface temperatures stabilize -Sea level rise will continue for thousands of years as excess heat spreads to deep ocean. www.canada.ca/en/environme...
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Report summary - Canada.ca
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’m still grieving Dolly Parton. I never met her and always wanted to. She was almost exactly my age and my height and had values I deeply admired. Her death leaves a hole in the firmament. Which brings me to the person whose values are as far from Dolly Parton’s as any human could possibly be...
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Dolly Parton was the polar opposite of our bullying president | Robert Reich
Terrified of being seen as a loser, Donald Trump is nonsensically lashing out – even against our old friend Canada
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Iglika Ivanova @iglikaivanova.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A great piece by Cory Doctorow on what Canada can do to establish digital sovereignty. It's clear that over-reliance on the US is risky and ill-advised, so let's get on with it. #cdnpoli pluralistic.net/2026/08/24/e...
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Pluralistic: How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Did you know that thanks to climate change the US is expecting its worst wheat harvest in half a century? We're pushing up against physical limits, and we're pushing hard. billmckibben.substack.com/p/reality-in...
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Reality intrudes
We can’t actually keep on like this
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton was an icon. She was a brilliant songwriter and performer. She was an incredible activist and advocate, helping to donate over 200 million free books to children. She was one of my personal heroes. This is a terrible loss. She will be greatly missed.
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UBCIC @ubcic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
These handbooks will be designed for use within First Nations schools and public schools and to support educators more broadly with a First Nations perspective around climate change education. [...] The targeted grade level will be secondary schools/high schools.   www.ubcic.bc.ca/rfp_fns_pers...
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Request for Proposal –First Nations Perspective on Climate Change: Teacher’s Handbook(s)
Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights
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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
"We need to reprioritize street space with bus-only lanes to allow public transit to bypass congestion and protected, connected active transport lanes for cycling, mobility aids and scooters." @brenttoderian.bsky.social #TrafficEvaporation #climateaction #pwd www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...
theglobeandmail.com
A world without traffic? Three urban experts rethink how cities move
Gridlock is costing us billions, but bold solutions like bus-only lanes, congestion charges and flexible work hours could get cities moving again
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BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
✨ New today: the Vancouver Sun 📰published this op-ed by researcher Leah Montange on the *significant* strain hashtag#BCwildfires put on already over-tasked long-term care workers across the province. Read it here: epaper.vancouversun.com/1000/2026082...
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Adrienne Tanner @adriennetanner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Trying not to be mean-spirited, but the Liberals small climate adaptation announcement in the face of this year's horrific fires rang hollow. Seems like a pittance compared to the resources that will be sunk into a new pipeline and will make matters worse. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/12/o...
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Carney can’t buy climate cover with pocket change
These sprinklings of cash will no doubt be welcome, but they seem a laughable pittance when you consider the government’s top priority: fast-tracking construction of another pipeline from the Alberta ...
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Must read; vital analysis from @bsaxifrage.bsky.social 👇 Canada’s out-of-control wildfire crisis is cooking up a future nobody wants to live in. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/17/a...
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Canada’s out-of-control wildfire crisis is cooking up a future nobody wants to live in
Canada’s calm, low-fire summers are gone, cooked away by unchecked fossil fuel burning. Here’s what we’ve replaced them with and where we are headed if we don’t stop feeding the fire weather beast.
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Look who won’t be getting any interviews with me for their pieces 👇
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Last month was the hottest in U.S. history, and tied for the hottest ever recorded on our home planet. billmckibben.substack.com/p/fun-with-n...
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Fun with numbers
A datacenter is an oil well, and other insights
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BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New working paper by Dr. Lorna Wanosts’a7 Williams and Dr. John Price. They explore the roots of the colonial backlash that followed two recent landmark court decisions (Cowichan Tribes v. Canada and Gitxaala v. British Columbia) + the BC gov’s threat to roll back DRIPA. bcpolicy.ca/DRIPA-BC
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DRIPA, the 1846 Oregon Treaty and the Future of Indigenous-Settler Relations
Dr. John Price and Dr. Lorna Wanosts’a7 Williams (Líl’wat) explore the coloniality crisis that has arisen in the wake of two landmark court decisions (Cowichan Tribes v. Canada and Gitxaala v. Britis...
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Iglika Ivanova @iglikaivanova.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Tara Mahoney nails it: "When the public broadcaster reports on wildfires, heat, & extreme weather without connecting the dots to fossil fuels, it leaves Canadians without the context they need to understand the crisis unfolding around them." ricochet.media/media/canada... @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social
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Canada is burning. Why won’t CBC tell us why?
When the public broadcaster reports on wildfires, heat, and extreme weather without connecting the dots to fossil fuels, it leaves Canadians without the context they need to understand the crisis unfo...
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Dave Thompson 🇨🇦 @davethompsonvic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We have climate solutions now. We just need governments to enact them. Meantime we will see more wildfires and more destruction. Demand that your local MP, MLA and City Council members take steps to reduce fossil fuel pollution. #climateaction #bcpoli #yyj
Image of newspaper airline stating "Wildfire destruction mounts in BC interior, structures lost on 120 more properties"Chart showing increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations from 1960 through current day
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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
If climate arsonists like Mark Carney and David Eby get their way, and keep shoveling public funds at pipelines and other fossil fuel extraction, the climate crisis will spiral out of control. Adaptation won't be possible. Time to step up and speak out @wgreaves.bsky.social! #yyj #bcpoli #cdnpoli
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 07/08/2026
Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 7, 2026 ~ The big lie. "Our ability to share knowledge and understand the situation we’re in has become utterly compromised, and deadly. If so many people weren’t dying and going to die, it would almost be impressive." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
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The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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Mike Patterson @mykle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Eight thousand people evacuated, over 7000 placed on alert, more than 300 structures burned. And there's more to come as hot weather is forecast. Those figures are just for BC. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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What you need to know about B.C. wildfires on Aug. 5 | CBC News
Thousands of people remain under evacuation order and several hundred properties are estimated to have been damaged or destroyed. Here is what you need to know about B.C.'s wildfire situation today.
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Doctors for Safer Drug Policy @dsdp.ca · 29/07/2026
The BC government's current approach does not follow the evidence. This continuing expansion of coercive confinement wastes precious health system resources and only sets us back in our fight against the worst public health emergency in our history. (8/8)
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
130° in Death Valley this Weekend? Not probable, but certainly possible! NOAA’s forecast is for 129 - 1° short of the highest temperature ever “reliably measured” on Earth, also set in Death Valley in 2021. Believe it or not… 1/
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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#Vancouver is getting hundreds of new battery electric buses with dynamic charging (AKA in-motion charging). We have the technology to leave fossil fuels in the past, it is the fossils like Carney and Eby holding us back (as Canada burns). #climateaction #bcpoli #cdnpoli
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Christine Hallquist @christinehallquist.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
OMG. The USA is now a torture chamber for smart people!
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Mike Patterson @mykle.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A deeper look than just the “5 o’clock news version” of life on the street in Victoria. #homelessness #homeless #addiction #substenceusedisorder www.timescolonist.com/islander/on-...
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On the Block: Life on Pandora can be kind, cruel, caring and ruthless, sometimes all at the same time
The 900-block of Pandora in Victoria may look dangerous. But for many, it feels safer than camping in a park, or sleeping next to strangers in a noisy shelter.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
France is on fire. Spain is on fire. Norway is on fire. Sicily is on fire. Ontario is on fire. Scotland is on fire. Bolivia is on fire. Algeria is on fire. England is on fire. Greta wasn't wrong when she said our house was on fire. We are in a climate emergency. - Greenpeace UK
France is on fire.
Spain is on fire.
Norway is on fire.
Sicily is on fire.
Ontario is on fire.
Scotland is on fire.
Bolivia is on fire.
Algeria is on fire.
England is on fire.
Greta wasn't wrong when she said our house was on fire.
We are in a
climate emergency.
Greenpeace UK

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European Greens @europeangreens.eu · 24/07/2026
A total of 254,388 hectares have been burnt in Europe (in particular in Spain, France and Italy) so far this year, which is roughly the size of Luxembourg. We applaud the courage of the rescue teams on the ground. We need to do more. We need climate action now.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
America is broiling too.Record heat domes in the US Northeast & Mid-Atlantic. DC hit 102°F (39°C) – new July 4th record. Power grids strained, events canceled. Wildfires in the West & smoke from Canada show how interconnected we are. Climate doesn’t check passports.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
What they want you to believe: Wildfires = Canada mismanagement. What the data says: 335 million hectares burned globally in 2025. 3,955 fires in Canada in 2026 alone, 1,092,095 hectares in non-EU Europe, Spain, France, USA, South Africa, Australia. This is climate, not a country.
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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"Human-caused climate change plays a key role in the province's worsening wildfire seasons." And ICYMI, the main culprit is fossil fuels like oil and methane gas (LNG). #bcwildfire #bcpoli
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Mike Patterson @mykle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"Logging such forests may keep the forest industry in timber, but (Len) Vanderstar (retired professional forester and professional biologist) believes that the price paid will be even deeper ecological, social and economic pain ahead." #environment #forestry #wildlife thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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Logging Companies Are Pushing into High-Elevation Forests | The Tyee
As BC seeks to increase harvest rates, more trees are falling in areas once considered too remote to log.
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Mike Patterson @mykle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Application for 30-year licence to send up to 700k megawatt hours of electricity a year to US. Marjorie Griffin Cohen of SFU writes that it's approval could be an incentive for private companies to increase private electricity exports independent of Canadian needs. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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How Powell River Became Ground Zero for Canada’s Electricity Future | The Tyee
Mark Carney’s old company wants an unprecedented right to sell power to the US.
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Melissa Lem @drmelissalem.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
When I first discovered the evidence behind the health benefits of nature over 15 years ago, @evergreencanada.bsky.social was the very first organization I worked with to turn that knowledge into action. Thanks for sharing our story. #healthybynature www.evergreen.ca/stories/pres...
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Prescribing nature: The story behind a growing movement
The co-founder of PaRx tells us how her lifelong connection to the great outdoors inspired Canada’s nature prescription program.
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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The extreme weather that results in wildfires threatening whole communities is becoming much more common because of fossil fuels. And David Eby and Mark Carney are responding by subsidizing more fossil fuel extraction. Not good. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #bcpoli #bcwildfire #climatecrisis
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Boston Bar residents ordered to 'leave now' due to new, fast-moving fire | CBC News
The Fraser Valley Regional District has ordered anyone remaining in Boston Bar, B.C., to leave immediately due to a new fire south of the community.
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Jane Kilthei @janekilthei.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Take Action! Our communities deserve clean air, not toxic pollution from Woodfibre LNG's flarestack. #StopWoodfibreLNG myseatosky.org/take-action/...
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Halt LNG expansion until health impacts are studied | My Sea to Sky
TAKE ACTION! Our communities deserve clean air, not toxic pollution from Woodfibre LNG's flarestack.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
CBC headline from two weeks ago: “Carney says Trudeau-era climate plan was ‘too expensive’ and ‘divisive’
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Carmen Celestini @philofwrite.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Everything feels weird in Toronto today. The air is yellow. It seems heavy, like it weighs on you. The lighting all day has been a state of perpetual dusk, no sun to be seen. It's all kind of eerie
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I was born and raised in Northern Ontario and I am absolutely boiling with rage at the ways in which people elsewhere are talking about the forest fires there as though this is a common occurrence. The air thick with smoke for kilometers, entire communities wiped out - this shit is not normal.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ocean acidification caused by excess co2 from human activity has led to a 30% increase in hydrogen ion concentration that is killing the ocean and marine life reducing the availability of carbonate ions needed by countless marine organisms to build shells and skeletons phys.org/news/2026-07...
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Ocean acidification emerging as a planetary signal linking today's carbon emissions to Earth's deep-time memory
When most people hear the phrase "ocean acidification," they think of coral reefs, shellfish or declining fisheries. Those concerns are real. But while working on our recent research, I found myself a...
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
IMPORTANT STUDY: Who is the Highway Lobby? “The highway lobby has been shaping transportation policy conversations for decades in its interests.” And they spend MILLIONS buying car dependency to make sure all of us have to spend BILLIONS. #UrbanTruth Via the Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org
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The Highway Lobby Spends Millions to Make Sure We Pay Billions
Our car-dependent transportation system is no accident.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Now stop expanding fossil fuel extraction for god’s sake!
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Fraser Valley Climate Action 🌿🌎💡 @fvca.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/climate... Has Canada lost its way when it comes to climate change and doing our part to stop it.
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Plans for more pipelines to export Canadian oil — and emissions — as planet keeps getting hotter | CBC
Pipeline announcements seem to be in abundance at the moment, with ambitions to see more Alberta crude flowing both east and west. But whether or not these plans are realized, the reality is that boos...
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🚨 The pollution of knowledge base a MASSIVE problem. Paper mill cancer studies get double the number of citations as genuine papers www.nature.com/articles/d41... "...papers that were probably produced by paper mills frequently cite, or are cited by, other potentially fraudulent articles."
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Paper mill cancer studies get double the number of citations as genuine papers
Potentially fraudulent papers often cite each other and could be inflating the impact factor of journals in which they are published.
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Mike Patterson @mykle.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Experts studying the problem say nobody is immune to misinformation but certain groups are more susceptible. UBC psychologist Friedrich Götz says everybody is fighting for your attention and that makes all of us vulnerable. Ways to combat this are being developed. www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
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The internet is full of misinformation. That's by design, experts say | CBC Radio
We are surrounded by information, and yet, 43 per cent of Canadians feel it's harder to decipher the truth from fiction. Several recent studies look at why the information age is so confusing.
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