Banger by @margaritap.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social et al, in JAMA Psych: “the PHQ’s use rests on a fragile foundation that might not bear the weight of research and clinical decision-making.”

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Thanks @janhove.bsky.social for taking the time to check the paper — something that paid editors at Nature, as well as unpaid reviewers — apparently did not.

Also shows once more that providing statistical code should be mandatory for every single paper.

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“make a different question askable—not whether LLMs can ‘do science’ but how they get enrolled within a scientific system whose goals have already been displaced”

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“If you seek food for thought in nutritional epidemiology, you may search long for the holy gruel.”
Sayings of Confuseus

"All of the editors-in-chief and associate editors of Springer Nature’s Journal of Philosophical Logic have announced their immediate or pending resignation and the launch, as of today, of a new “diamond” open access journal, Philosophical Logic."

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The pensive squirrel.
Maybe pondering deep thoughts.
Or just plain tired.
#SquirrelHaiku

Fox Squirrels in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan on December 10th, 2025 #flickr #Squirrels #SquirrelOfTheDay #SquirrelWisdom #Michigan #SquirrelDude #sqrlpix #squirrelsofbluesky
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After having followed papers on the gut microbiome and mental health problems for a few years, I would not be surprised if conceptual and methodological flaws undermine most claims in this literature.

I should probably explain this, with context.

Over several years we have caught MANY researchers playing silly buggers with artificial cutoffs designed to engineer group differences.

(No one more so than the Vitamin D weirdos. One of the least reliable and most annoying areas of health research.)