by rss feed | Dec 30, 2025 | News Feeds, Science Hype Award, The Screamers
To my knowledge, The Niche’s The Screamers award is the only science hype award out there. There were many candidates this year, but one stood above the rest for extraordinary hype in science. Colossal Biosciences wins 2025 The Screamers science hype award...
by rss feed | Jan 23, 2025 | News Feeds, Science Hype Award, The Screamers
It’s important to pay attention to science hype, which is the rationale for The Screamers Science Hype Awards. As far as I know, it’s the only award for science hype. Exaggerating research and medical potential clearly does harm. I wrote a few weeks ago...
by rss feed | Dec 26, 2024 | News Feeds, Science hype, Science Hype Award, The Screamers
Each year I give out The Screamers Awards. As far as I know it’s the only science hype award in the world. The Screamers Awards recognize extreme examples of science hype, most often by the media. The major focus is on the biomedical sciences, but other areas of...
by rss feed | Dec 29, 2023 | hype, News Feeds, Science Hype Award, The Screamers
Every year I give out The Screamers Science Hype Award. The point of The Screamers is to raise awareness about science hype and catalyze new ways to combat it. In that spirit, I award what I see as the most extreme examples of science hype. Sometimes in addition to...
by rss feed | Nov 12, 2023 | Google stem cells, News Feeds, Science Hype Award, weekly reads
For me, this was another week of heavy grant writing but also taking on Google again. How? Over how badly its search engine often performs on stem cell queries. I have a new piece at MedPage Today. It’s focused on the problem of Google Search promoting unproven...
