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Regulation by AI: Replaying EPA’s Glyphosate Decisions
We asked five AI models to replay 50 years of EPA decisions on glyphosate: in 90 runs, not one recommended a softer course than the agency took, and most called for stricter regulation.
Jason MacLean
The Editorial that Defends a Ghostwritten Paper by Citing Additional Ghostwritten Papers
A few days ago, sixty-four individuals co-signed an editorial in Archives of Toxicology calling for the reversal of the November 2025 retraction of Williams, Kroes & Munro 2000 (hereafter WKM2000), published in the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology. The editorial, authored by Christopher Borgert and 63 others, appeared
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When a Chatbot Says Water Is More Dangerous Than Glyphosate
Half the world now uses generative AI assistants (Stanford HAI, 2026). Many of the queries ordinary people ask land on questions about science, including the contested-science topics this newsletter covers. So we decided to check something simple: how do these everyday AI assistants answer? Do they give consistent answers?
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“Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business”
The editor told us that we were the first ones to ask for retraction.