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 | Dec 22, 2022 | News Feeds, The Screamers
I started The Screamers a few years back as a biomedical science hype award. It’s kind of in the spirit of an Ig Noble Prize in the sense of an alternative “award”, but in this case for hype. In 2020, sadly the FDA Commissioner at the time Stephen...
by rss feed | Jan 20, 2021 | convalescent plasma, COVID-19, hype, News Feeds, science awards, Science hype, Stephen Hahn, The Screamers
Today’s post announces the winner of the 2020 The Screamers Science Hype Award. Since this is the inaugural year for The Screamers, I’m just going to give out one main award: Overall Worst Science Hype. Science Hype Award to FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn...
