Anything serious has moved to bluesky. The views expressed here are solely my own and do not represent the views of my employers.

Chapel Hill, NC
Joined March 2017
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Un CRS ému de mettre les pieds dans un lycée pour la première fois
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🚨 New paper: Introducing MIND (Monge Inception Distance) Everyone agrees that FID is broken, requires too many samples, slowing down evals. MIND requires 10x fewer samples, is more robust, faster to compute. Our new drop-in replacement for evaluating generative models. 🧵👇
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Crémieux
@cremieuxrecueilSep 13
This paper should be retracted. The authors did not write it, they outsourced thinking to AI, and they published hallucinations. 1. All the arguments are nonsense; 2. It's substantially AI-written; 3. Several citations are made-up or in error. The authors are frauds.
Steven C. Hayes
@StevenCHayesSep 13
My co-authors and I just published something in Clinical Psychology Review, and it's open access. It's called "One Size Fits None: A Call for an Idionomic Revolution." We put together a story that has been sitting in plain sight. Applied psychology has made painfully slow progress, and part of the reason traces back to the ergodic error and to the racist, sexist, and antisemitic roots of traditional biostatistics. The majority of American Psychological Association presidents from 1892 to 1947 were card carrying eugenicists. The laws that later shaped the Holocaust were written here in the United States two decades earlier, with the active support of mainstream psychology. Most textbooks treat this as distant history. Almost none notice that the same assumptions still quietly define what we call good science. This is an article of hope though. We lay out another way forward through the emerging science of idionomics, an approach that finally puts the individual client at the center. Do we know it will succeed? Honestly, no. But the path we have been on is scientifically and morally wrong, and if evidence based therapy is going to move ahead, it needs truly new ideas. Read it here, for free: authors.elsevier.com/c/1nkyr…
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Critics identified multiple fabricated or erroneous citations in the paper (non-existent works, wrong DOIs/journals). This matches common AI hallucination patterns. x.com/cremieuxrecuei… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42710383/
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Les vaccins 💉 contre le Covid ont-ils sauvé des vies ? Oui. Les masques 😷 ont-ils sauvé des vies ? Oui. Les confinements de 2020 ont-ils sauvé des vies ? Oui. L’hydroxychloroquine a-t-elle sauvé des vies ? Non. L’ivermectine a-t-elle sauvé des vies ? Non. Didier Raoult a-t-il publié des études illégales et trompeuses ? Oui. Voilà. C’est simple. Même si certains consacreront encore beaucoup d’énergie à contredire les faits, à mentir ou à nier l’évidence.
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Replying to @barriere_dr
Est-ce que la sanction est proportionnelle au nombre de patients qu'on a inclus dans un essai clinique sauvage ? C'est pour un ami
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Nouvelle note éditoriale sur une publication de l'IHU sous EoC : - Pas d'approbation éthique valable. - Celle fournie n'en est pas une et ne couvre pas la recherche menée. - Les auteurs se contredisent. Et, comme d'habitude, pour AMU qui couvre ces fraudes, il n'y a aucun souci.
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Les enfants vaccinés 💉 à l’âge de 12 ou 13 ans contre les HPV présentent désormais un risque proche de zéro de mourir d’un cancer du col de l’utérus avant l’âge de 30 ans. La vaccination préventive sauve des vies. Et évitent des traitements lourds. Vaccinez 💉 vos enfants !
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I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience (part of @FrontNeurosci). It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
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"Avec huit retraits d'articles pour le seul mois d'avril, Didier Raoult vient d'entrer dans le peu enviable top 10 mondial des scientifiques dont les articles ont été le plus rétractés." liberation.fr/sciences/didie…
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70ème rétractation pour l'IHU La 58ème pour Didier Raoult qui devient le 8ème scientifique avec le plus de rétractations.
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Organigramme du jour de l'institut des rétractations. La directrice adjointe se rapproche du sommet.
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Grand merci à @Margot_Brunet_ @Charlie_Hebdo_ qui a écrit un article très complet sur l'étonnante façon dont les affaires judiciaires sont traitées quand il s'agit de Didier Raoult et son entourage J'espère que certaines affaires se verront enfin dépaysées charliehebdo.fr/2026/04/scie…
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In one of the other @PNASNews papers from the same researchers, there are unexpected similarities between some of the #FlowCytometry panels. As least, I think they are unexpected. Some regions look identical, others are different. pubpeer.com/publications/FF0…
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*How *not* to handle image manipulation*. Editors, please do not address this level of photoshopping with a correction. In 2020, I flagged Figure 3D of this 2017 BBRC paper. Multiple regions appeared reused within or across panels. pubpeer.com/publications/153… #ImageForensics
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This 2-hour Stanford lecture breaks down how models like ChatGPT and Claude are actually built, clearer than what many people in top AI roles ever get exposed to. Save this and set aside two hours today. It might end up being the most valuable thing you learn all week.
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Replying to @HeleneBsecours
Dans les locaux de l'ISA, et non pas a l'invitation de l'ISA. L'invitation vient de medicaldoctorsawake.eu/ un groupuscule complotiste qui apparement a le droit d'utiliser les locaux. Je viens de verifier l'info aupres de scientifiques honnetes. ;-)
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60th retraction for the IHU of Marseille despite the efforts of Aix-Marseille University. The 48th for Didier Raoult. Authorization 09-022 used in 258 articles that do not cover the samples mentioned in the article.
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