I think horible people rarely feel bad about themselves.

I'm guessing it's the EDI sections.

I'm not defending the use of AI, but ref letters are out of control. Three letters for each student for med school applications when, what 10%? are accepted. A reference letter won't move someone from the bottom of the pile to the top, so why request ALL the letters? The collective number of hours..

Grants written by AI?!!? Really?

"I'm definitely not trying to make excuses for this" While desperately trying to make excuses for this.

I don't think the republican base is going to care, no matter how bad it is. This is the same group that continually votes down amendments that would prevent child marriages. They only cared about the Epstein files because they thought Bill Clinton was in them.

I think you are giving them too much credit.

This really begs for a longer commentary (Insights are limited to 750 words) that goes into more detail, includes the reviewer comments, and addresses the limitations of peer review in the eLife publishing model.

Thanks!

Commentary on multiple papers, but here is the most recent from the Vidal-Gadea group. elifesciences.org/articles/107...

Investors believing un-sciency things and ignoring real scientists? Hmmmm, where have I seen this before?