Erika McCallion
@erkmcc.bsky.social
Toronto / Mississauga, Canada | she/her | politicizes everything and generally leftist | Political Organizer | Dyslexic, ADHD | obsessed with Podcasts | only child still learning to share
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Having proper ventilation and filtration of all indoor air spaces would mitigate symptom-free spread. So many good reasons for the govt to have a national grant/subsidy program to clean indoor air in every home, office, commercial, industrial building. What a missed nation-building opportunity!
September 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Having proper ventilation and filtration of all indoor air spaces would mitigate symptom-free spread. So many good reasons for the govt to have a national grant/subsidy program to clean indoor air in every home, office, commercial, industrial building. What a missed nation-building opportunity!
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During the vote, top bill backer Kirsten Gillibrand and chief opponent Elizabeth Warren got into a heated argument. Warren strongly believes this will pave the way for corruption, risk the stability of the financial system and allow more criming. Gillibrand argues this bill will protect consumers.
May 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
During the vote, top bill backer Kirsten Gillibrand and chief opponent Elizabeth Warren got into a heated argument. Warren strongly believes this will pave the way for corruption, risk the stability of the financial system and allow more criming. Gillibrand argues this bill will protect consumers.
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As reported by the @splcenter.org, anti-trans pseudoscience groups often pay the open-access fees for researchers with friendly viewpoints.
It needs to be studied further, but this strategy seems to work for AI search. Many cited articles had their open access fees paid by an anti-trans group.
It needs to be studied further, but this strategy seems to work for AI search. Many cited articles had their open access fees paid by an anti-trans group.
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One might imagine that algorithms like these could improve their answers to medical questions if they restricted themselves to citing the academic literature, rather than potentially partisan blogs—that is, sticking to the “science.” However, pseudoscientific disinformation campaigns are often laundered through the scientific literature itself, creating additional challenges for algorithmic systems hoping to do scientific boundary work. Prior reporting has documented how SEGM pays for open-access fees for authors publishing research congenial to their anti-transgender stances, so that their work will be freely accessible to the public instead of hidden behind paywalls. This also means, however, that the text of these articles is available to algorithmically generated search summaries like Google Search, which often cites their claims via publicly accessible text.[13] Two out of the three peer-reviewed scientific articles cited in the above summary on detransition had their open-access fees paid for by SEGM, of these, one suggests that existing research on detransition rates is flawed, and the other suggests it is higher than is widely reported. One of the articles was authored by someone whose only listed affiliation was SEGM itself.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tsuexertapdaedikorpy27ck/bafkreibosvmqwvc4ddmc5aipn4awqu4hexq34cn4vtupz4eucbdgymojga@jpeg)
May 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
As reported by the @splcenter.org, anti-trans pseudoscience groups often pay the open-access fees for researchers with friendly viewpoints.
It needs to be studied further, but this strategy seems to work for AI search. Many cited articles had their open access fees paid by an anti-trans group.
It needs to be studied further, but this strategy seems to work for AI search. Many cited articles had their open access fees paid by an anti-trans group.