Louis Slesin
@louisslesin.bsky.social
Editor, Microwave News, @microwavenews.com
NYC
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That one thing “might not matter or which might change everything entirely.”
Chatbot errors should be reframed not as “hallucinatory,” but “multiversal,” @ibogost.com argues. In multiversal fiction, the worst nightmares arrive when an alternate reality is exactly the same as the real world—save for one thing:
Welcome to the Slopverse
Generative AI isn’t hallucinatory. It is multiversal.
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
That one thing “might not matter or which might change everything entirely.”
“The government must figure out what is causing [Havana Syndrome].”
—a plea from Dr David Relman of Stanford Univ & Dr Paul Friedrichs, a retired USAF major general in the WSJ today.
www.wsj.com/opinion/take...
—a plea from Dr David Relman of Stanford Univ & Dr Paul Friedrichs, a retired USAF major general in the WSJ today.
www.wsj.com/opinion/take...
Opinion | Take Havana Syndrome Seriously
Americans who are suffering debilitating symptoms deserve answers—and treatment.
www.wsj.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:28 AM
“The government must figure out what is causing [Havana Syndrome].”
—a plea from Dr David Relman of Stanford Univ & Dr Paul Friedrichs, a retired USAF major general in the WSJ today.
www.wsj.com/opinion/take...
—a plea from Dr David Relman of Stanford Univ & Dr Paul Friedrichs, a retired USAF major general in the WSJ today.
www.wsj.com/opinion/take...
“Astonishingly high” pulsed magnetic fields measured in electric cars by 🇦🇹 lab for 🇩🇪 govt.
Levels exceed current European exposure limits which don’t even consider long-term exposures.
Will the EV industry move to reduce these fields?
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Levels exceed current European exposure limits which don’t even consider long-term exposures.
Will the EV industry move to reduce these fields?
bsky.app/profile/micr...
www.microwavenews.com/news-center/...
September 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
“Astonishingly high” pulsed magnetic fields measured in electric cars by 🇦🇹 lab for 🇩🇪 govt.
Levels exceed current European exposure limits which don’t even consider long-term exposures.
Will the EV industry move to reduce these fields?
bsky.app/profile/micr...
www.microwavenews.com/news-center/...
Levels exceed current European exposure limits which don’t even consider long-term exposures.
Will the EV industry move to reduce these fields?
bsky.app/profile/micr...
www.microwavenews.com/news-center/...
There are many good reasons not to follow the RFK Jr playbook on RF radiation, but citing a conflict with the WHO EMF project is not among them.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr.’s Wi-Fi and 5G conspiracies appear to make it into MAHA report draft
The “Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy” draft doesn’t mention top killers of kids.
arstechnica.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
There are many good reasons not to follow the RFK Jr playbook on RF radiation, but citing a conflict with the WHO EMF project is not among them.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Surprising finding!
Up to now, the most-cited reasons for the well-documented jump in early-onset colorectal cancer have been lack of exercise and bad diet.
This cohort clearly tells a different story.
(Unpublished studies are rarely featured on front page of NYT.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/h...
Up to now, the most-cited reasons for the well-documented jump in early-onset colorectal cancer have been lack of exercise and bad diet.
This cohort clearly tells a different story.
(Unpublished studies are rarely featured on front page of NYT.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/h...
Are Marathons and Extreme Running Linked to Colon Cancer?
www.nytimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Surprising finding!
Up to now, the most-cited reasons for the well-documented jump in early-onset colorectal cancer have been lack of exercise and bad diet.
This cohort clearly tells a different story.
(Unpublished studies are rarely featured on front page of NYT.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/h...
Up to now, the most-cited reasons for the well-documented jump in early-onset colorectal cancer have been lack of exercise and bad diet.
This cohort clearly tells a different story.
(Unpublished studies are rarely featured on front page of NYT.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/h...
Generally accurate article.
But it could have been written >20 years ago! Not much has changed over the years, because the power industry, with the help of national governments, has suppressed #EMF research.
One example 👇👇👇
microwavenews.com/news-center/...
www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspi...
But it could have been written >20 years ago! Not much has changed over the years, because the power industry, with the help of national governments, has suppressed #EMF research.
One example 👇👇👇
microwavenews.com/news-center/...
www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspi...
Scientists Reveal the TRUTH About Living Near Power Lines and Major Health Risks
We dive into what the research really says—and whether you need to be concerned.
www.housebeautiful.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Generally accurate article.
But it could have been written >20 years ago! Not much has changed over the years, because the power industry, with the help of national governments, has suppressed #EMF research.
One example 👇👇👇
microwavenews.com/news-center/...
www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspi...
But it could have been written >20 years ago! Not much has changed over the years, because the power industry, with the help of national governments, has suppressed #EMF research.
One example 👇👇👇
microwavenews.com/news-center/...
www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspi...
Though #NIEHS / #NTP say more #RF health studies are needed, last year they quietly closed down their entire RF research program.
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microwavenews.com/news-center/...
August 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Though #NIEHS / #NTP say more #RF health studies are needed, last year they quietly closed down their entire RF research program.
microwavenews.com/news-center/...
microwavenews.com/news-center/...
“The prognosis for patients with early-onset GI cancers is similar to or worse than that for patients with later-onset GI cancers, highlighting the need for improved methods of prevention and early detection.”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Early-Onset Gastrointestinal Cancers: A Review
This Review summarizes current evidence on colorectal, pancreatic, and esophagogastric cancers among individuals aged 18 to 49 years.
jamanetwork.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“The prognosis for patients with early-onset GI cancers is similar to or worse than that for patients with later-onset GI cancers, highlighting the need for improved methods of prevention and early detection.”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Doctors in Elected Office Are Turning Their Backs on Science
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Opinion | Doctors in Elected Office Are Turning Their Backs on Science
Their actions represent political expediency at the expense of public safety
www.medpagetoday.com
July 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Doctors in Elected Office Are Turning Their Backs on Science
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Reposted by Louis Slesin
This is what’s on CNN right now, an hour after Republicans passed a bill stripping healthcare from 17 million Americans, gutting food assistance to the tune of $300 billion, and exploding the deficit by $4 trillion.
July 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This is what’s on CNN right now, an hour after Republicans passed a bill stripping healthcare from 17 million Americans, gutting food assistance to the tune of $300 billion, and exploding the deficit by $4 trillion.
Top spokesperson for NIH’s parent agency, HHS, said: “All contracts with Springer Nature are terminated or no longer active. Precious taxpayer dollars should be [sic] not be used on unused subscriptions to junk science.”
Nature is junk science!
C.R.A.Z.Y.
Nature is junk science!
C.R.A.Z.Y.
The US administration has cut some government agencies' subscriptions to journals at Nature's publisher, Springer Nature
https://go.nature.com/44bgaOz
https://go.nature.com/44bgaOz
Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature
The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.
go.nature.com
July 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Top spokesperson for NIH’s parent agency, HHS, said: “All contracts with Springer Nature are terminated or no longer active. Precious taxpayer dollars should be [sic] not be used on unused subscriptions to junk science.”
Nature is junk science!
C.R.A.Z.Y.
Nature is junk science!
C.R.A.Z.Y.
This was extraordinary reporting, yet now seems all but forgotten. Happily not by everyone.
#HavanaSyndrome
youtu.be/COWTBEl1rRc
#HavanaSyndrome
youtu.be/COWTBEl1rRc
June 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This was extraordinary reporting, yet now seems all but forgotten. Happily not by everyone.
#HavanaSyndrome
youtu.be/COWTBEl1rRc
#HavanaSyndrome
youtu.be/COWTBEl1rRc
“A new study shows that appendix cancer is becoming more common among younger generations, mirroring a pattern that has been occurring with other cancers since the 1990s.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/w...
Rare Appendix Cancers Are Increasing Among Millennials and Gen X
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
“A new study shows that appendix cancer is becoming more common among younger generations, mirroring a pattern that has been occurring with other cancers since the 1990s.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/w...
“For staff across the National Institutes of Health (NIH), we dissent to Administration policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe...We are compelled to speak up...”
www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
www.standupforscience.net
June 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“For staff across the National Institutes of Health (NIH), we dissent to Administration policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe...We are compelled to speak up...”
www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
Colibactin, a bacterial toxin, may be —at least partially— behind the rise of early-onset colorectal cancer #EOCRC.
Colibactin-related mutations are seen more often among those with EOCRC. If you get one by the age of 10, you could develop cancer at 40 instead of 60.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Colibactin-related mutations are seen more often among those with EOCRC. If you get one by the age of 10, you could develop cancer at 40 instead of 60.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Colibactin, a bacterial toxin, may be —at least partially— behind the rise of early-onset colorectal cancer #EOCRC.
Colibactin-related mutations are seen more often among those with EOCRC. If you get one by the age of 10, you could develop cancer at 40 instead of 60.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Colibactin-related mutations are seen more often among those with EOCRC. If you get one by the age of 10, you could develop cancer at 40 instead of 60.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Chinese 🇨🇳 govt is doing far more research on EM/RF biological effects & medical applications than any other country. It’s also working on ways to mitigate radiation exposures.
An example 👇 published last week @plosone.org shows how antenna design can reduce absorption in the skull at 1.9-3.5 GHz
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An example 👇 published last week @plosone.org shows how antenna design can reduce absorption in the skull at 1.9-3.5 GHz
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May 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Chinese 🇨🇳 govt is doing far more research on EM/RF biological effects & medical applications than any other country. It’s also working on ways to mitigate radiation exposures.
An example 👇 published last week @plosone.org shows how antenna design can reduce absorption in the skull at 1.9-3.5 GHz
1/2
An example 👇 published last week @plosone.org shows how antenna design can reduce absorption in the skull at 1.9-3.5 GHz
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Peer review of this key #RF systematic review must have been a tough slog. It took 14 months to reaffirm the cancer link!
Its findings contradict the long-held conclusions of ICNIRP and just about all other standard-setting committees.
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Its findings contradict the long-held conclusions of ICNIRP and just about all other standard-setting committees.
bsky.app/profile/micr...
April 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Peer review of this key #RF systematic review must have been a tough slog. It took 14 months to reaffirm the cancer link!
Its findings contradict the long-held conclusions of ICNIRP and just about all other standard-setting committees.
bsky.app/profile/micr...
Its findings contradict the long-held conclusions of ICNIRP and just about all other standard-setting committees.
bsky.app/profile/micr...
Publishers are being offered hundreds of thousands of euros for journals indexed by scholarly databases.
Then the journals turn rogue.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Then the journals turn rogue.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: the firms that buy science publications and turn them rogue
Study finds dozens of journals that have hiked their fees and started churning out papers after being acquired by small, recently formed companies.
www.nature.com
April 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Publishers are being offered hundreds of thousands of euros for journals indexed by scholarly databases.
Then the journals turn rogue.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Then the journals turn rogue.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“These findings suggest that if current radiation dosing and utilization practices continue, CT-associated cancers could eventually account for 5% of all new cancer diagnoses annually.”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
+ Editor’s note: ”Balancing Computed Tomography’s Benefits With Radiation Risks”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
+ Editor’s note: ”Balancing Computed Tomography’s Benefits With Radiation Risks”
Projected Lifetime Cancer Risks From Current Computed Tomography Imaging
This risk model projects how many future cancers in the United States could result from annual computed tomography examinations.
jamanetwork.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
“These findings suggest that if current radiation dosing and utilization practices continue, CT-associated cancers could eventually account for 5% of all new cancer diagnoses annually.”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
+ Editor’s note: ”Balancing Computed Tomography’s Benefits With Radiation Risks”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
+ Editor’s note: ”Balancing Computed Tomography’s Benefits With Radiation Risks”
The transformation of healthy cells into invasive colorectal tumors is a very complex process involving numerous molecular mechanisms, according to Chinese biologists who have discovered that low levels of a single enzyme strongly influence the pathway to malignancy
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03...
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03...
Low levels of a single enzyme influence pathway to malignancy in colorectal cancer, scientists find
The transformation of healthy cells into invasive colorectal tumors is an extraordinarily complex process involving numerous molecular mechanisms, according to cancer biologists in China who have disc...
medicalxpress.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The transformation of healthy cells into invasive colorectal tumors is a very complex process involving numerous molecular mechanisms, according to Chinese biologists who have discovered that low levels of a single enzyme strongly influence the pathway to malignancy
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03...
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03...
Reposted by Louis Slesin
Nearly 2,000 members of the National Academies called on the Trump administration to halt its “wholesale assault on U.S. science" in an open letter.
www.statnews.com/2025/03/31/t...
www.statnews.com/2025/03/31/t...
Nearly 2,000 top researchers call on Trump administration to halt ‘assault’ on science
Nearly 2,000 members of the National Academies called on the Trump administration to halt its “wholesale assault on U.S. science" in an open letter.
www.statnews.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Nearly 2,000 members of the National Academies called on the Trump administration to halt its “wholesale assault on U.S. science" in an open letter.
www.statnews.com/2025/03/31/t...
www.statnews.com/2025/03/31/t...
Reposted by Louis Slesin
Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.
Germany still hasn’t fully recovered from expelling and killing so many of its top researchers back in 1933. A lot of brilliant minds were forced to leave—people who went on to do groundbreaking work in other countries, especially the U.S.
March 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.
People in the neighborhood “won’t notice after a week,” said Kathryn Wylde, president and CEO of the Partnership for New York City, an influential consortium of corporations and business leaders.
[For non-NYers: 86th St & Madison Ave is a very pricey part of town.]
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...
[For non-NYers: 86th St & Madison Ave is a very pricey part of town.]
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...
Does Madison Avenue Need a 5G Tower?
Some Upper East Siders are fighting a proposed tower. They say that it’s “ugly” and that the corner where the city plans to put it is already crowded.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
People in the neighborhood “won’t notice after a week,” said Kathryn Wylde, president and CEO of the Partnership for New York City, an influential consortium of corporations and business leaders.
[For non-NYers: 86th St & Madison Ave is a very pricey part of town.]
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...
[For non-NYers: 86th St & Madison Ave is a very pricey part of town.]
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...