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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Climate.gov Didn't Fit Trump's "#GoldStandard"
For nearly fifteen years, climate.gov was #NOAA’s #climate #science crown jewel.
The site embodied precisely the virtues the new EO trumpets as “#GoldStandardScience”: reproducible, transparent, clearly communicating error and uncertainty, and subject to peer review.
Yet on May 31, the contract that funded the portal’s editorial team lapsed, and on June 24, the standalone domain vanished.
scilight.substack.com/p/climat

petersuber

Examples of #Trump #GoldStandard science:

"EPA says power plant carbon emissions aren’t dangerous. We asked 30 scientists: Here’s what they say."
apnews.com/article/climate-cha

AP News · Scientists: EPA's carbon emissions proposal is scientifically wrongThe Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas “emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants do not contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution.″ The Associated Press asked 30 different scientists, experts in climate, health and economics, about the scientific reality behind this proposal. Nineteen of them responded, all saying that the proposal was scientifically wrong and many of them called it disinformation. They said it was like saying cigarettes don't cause cancer, the world isn't round and arsenic isn't deadly. One said it was hard to find something dumber.
#Climate#DefendResearch#Environment
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Christian Boulanger

We use #grobid and the plos1000 #goldstandard as a baseline to compare the performance of LLM-based solutions.

Takeaways:

- Grobid still better choice for literature similar to the type it was trained on (mostly English-language STEM scholarship), since it is much faster & less resource-intensive
- For footnoted literature, experiments with LLamore/#Gemini show 3x better performance

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Trump’s “#GoldStandard #Science” is already wearing thin
#FDA Commissioner #MartyMakary was on one of weekend news programs, where he was asked about decision to limit pregnant people's access to #COVIDvaccines. Host mentioned that aggregation of studies involving a total of over 1.8M had shown #vaccine was safe and effective.
Makary dismissed all that data because it wasn't "#GoldStandardScience," perfectly illustrating how phrase can be used as a tool to mislead public.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Ars Technica · Analysis: Trump’s “Gold Standard Science” is already wearing thinBy John Timmer
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Trump’s new ‘#goldstandard’ rule will destroy American #science as we know it
#Executiveorder allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving way to state-controlled science
Instead of being about open science, it grants administration-aligned political appointees power to designate any research scientific misconduct based on own “judgment” and includes power to punish #scientists involved; this would weaponize government counter to public interest.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know itBy Michael Mann
petersuber

Hallucinating #GoldStandard science

"The #MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist."
notus.org/health-science/make-

"Health Secretary #RFKJr says his “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report harnesses “gold-standard” science, citing more than 500 studies and other sources to back up its claims. Those citations, though, are rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions. Seven of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all."

NOTUS · The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t ExistThe Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
#AI#DefendResearch#Medicine
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

@phaedral @penryu @molly0xfff

the worst part:

the sales pitch of #crypto, as embodied in the irony that molly refers to above, is that #banks are unsafe, that the #FDIC is against you, that leaving the #goldstandard was wrong and crypto should be the standard, etc

and who buys this crap?

morons

the 2008 panic was *caused* by relaxing regulations

con men noticed fools who don't understand that think *less* regulations is the answer

then the fools lose everything

do you think they learn?

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