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This study claims that older adults who use computers, smartphones and the internet are much less likely to have cognitive impairment or dementia, supporting a protective 'technological reserve' over 'digital dementia.'
A Model of the Attention Economy: Data, Platforms, and Discovery
This study claims that free platforms and targeted ads can be modeled so that data policies reverse effects over time, platform quality is too high or too low, and ad revenue shrinks relative to GDP.
Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for ADHD
This study claims that 12 places in human DNA raise ADHD risk, found by comparing 20,183 diagnosed people with 35,191 others, and that ADHD is the extreme of an inherited trait.
Associations of food processing and dietary risk factors with colorectal cancer incidence in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study: A cohort study
This study claims that eating ultra-processed food overall is not linked to colorectal cancer, because processed grains and dairy lower the risk while processed meat raises it.
Notes from the Field : Molecular Detections of Cladophialophora bantiana at a Clinical Reference Laboratory — United States, 2009–2026
This study claims that brain and lung infections caused by the mold Cladophialophora bantiana jumped fourfold in the United States between 2023 and 2025, based on 49 cases detected at one laboratory.
Can Sex Improve Nasal Function?—An Exploration of the Link Between Sex and Nasal Function
This study claims that sexual intercourse with climax improves nasal breathing in people with stuffy noses for up to an hour to the same degree as a nasal decongestant spray.
Napping characteristics and incident dementia: results from the National Health and Aging Trends Study
This study claims that older adults who nap often, fall asleep during the day without planning to, or take short naps are more likely to develop dementia over ten years.
Global gridded population datasets systematically underrepresent rural population
This study claims that five global population maps underestimate rural populations by 53% to 84% when checked against the number of people actually relocated from 307 areas flooded by large dams.
Exposure to childhood maltreatment is associated with specific epigenetic patterns in sperm
This study claims that men who experienced childhood abuse or neglect carry altered RNA levels and chemical tags on the DNA in their sperm that may affect their children's brain development.
Machine learning based screening of potential paper mill publications in cancer research: methodological and cross sectional study
This study claims a text-reading program can spot paper mill fakes from titles and abstracts, and that about 10% of 2.6 million cancer papers, including 36% of Chinese ones, are flagged.
Randomized trial of topical ascorbic acid in DMSO versus imiquimod for the treatment of basal cell carcinoma
This study claims that a skin solution of vitamin C in a solvent cleared basal cell skin cancer in about 87% of lesions, beating the standard cream imiquimod, with fewer side effects.
Cholesterol-lowering effects of oats induced by microbially produced phenolic metabolites in metabolic syndrome: a randomized controlled trial
This study claims that eating a high oat diet lowers blood cholesterol because gut bacteria turn the oats into chemical byproducts that enter the blood and reduce cholesterol in cells.
Aluminum-Adsorbed Vaccines and Chronic Diseases in Childhood
This study claims that the amount of aluminum in childhood vaccines does not raise a child's risk of autoimmune disease, allergies, asthma, autism, or ADHD, based on 1.2 million Danish children.
Analysis of health outcomes in vaccinated and unvaccinated children: Developmental delays, asthma, ear infections and gastrointestinal disorders
This study claims that children vaccinated in their first year had much higher odds of developmental delays, asthma and ear infections than unvaccinated children, and that more doses meant higher odds.
Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in COVID-19-Vaccinated Versus Unvaccinated U.S. Children: Analysis of the National Health Interview Survey, 2022–2024
This study claims that children who got a COVID-19 vaccine have higher odds of autism, ADHD, anxiety and other diagnoses than unvaccinated children, and that the odds rise with more doses.
Impact of coffee intake on human aging: Epidemiology and cellular mechanisms
This study claims that regular moderate coffee drinking cuts the risk of death by 17 percent, adds about 1.8 healthy years of life, and protects the body's aging processes.
Who is disrupting whom? Examining the nighttime activity patterns of humans and their dogs
This study claims that people and their dogs affect each other's nighttime movement, usually with the person moving first, and that having more than one dog makes people rate their sleep as worse.
The spread of sexually transmissible drug-resistant shigellosis in England: a genomic epidemiology study
This study claims that drug-resistant shigellosis is spreading through sex among men who have sex with men in England, faster and farther than cases from travel or other sources, and that handwashing will not stop it.
Exome-wide rare variant genetic load is associated with cognition, intellectual disability and psychiatric disorders in population-based cohorts
This study claims that people carrying more rare broken versions of important genes score lower on thinking tests and are more likely to have autism, schizophrenia and intellectual disability.
Global burden of cancer attributable to infections in 2024: a worldwide incidence analysis
This study claims that infections caused 2.3 million new cancers worldwide in 2024, 12% of all cases, mostly from a stomach bacterium and HPV, and that vaccines and testing would prevent them.
In Utero Exposure to the 1982 Tylenol Recall and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes
This study claims that acetaminophen use in pregnancy does not meaningfully raise a child's risk of ADHD or autism, because children carried during the 1982 Tylenol recall were diagnosed at normal rates.
Maternal Acetaminophen Use and Offspring's Neurodevelopmental Outcome: A Nationwide Birth Cohort Study
This study claims that children whose mothers took acetaminophen during pregnancy were diagnosed with ADHD about 22 percent more often than other children, in a Japanese birth cohort of 217,602 children.
Prenatal paracetamol exposure and neurodevelopmental outcomes in preschool‐aged children
This study claims that using paracetamol in all three trimesters of pregnancy is linked to more emotional problems and less shyness in five-year-olds, and that short-term use poses no substantial risk.
Novel Bivalent mRNA‐LNP Vaccine for Highly Effective Protection against Pneumonic Plague
This study claims that a two-part mRNA injection protects mice from pneumonic plague after a nose dose of cultured bacteria set at 10 to 100 times the killing dose.
Effects of creatine supplementation with and without exercise and diet intervention on body composition, cognitive function, and markers of health in middle-aged and older adults
This study claims that creatine powder taken daily for 12 weeks helps middle-aged and older adults gain muscle and strength and improves cholesterol, blood sugar markers, and memory, with or without exercise and dieting.
Controlled trial of soya-bean oil in myocardial infarction
This study claims that a soybean-oil diet low in saturated fat lowered blood cholesterol by 22% but did not change the rate of relapse or death in men recovering from a first heart attack.
Corn Oil in Treatment of Ischaemic Heart Disease
This study claims that feeding heart patients 80 grams of corn oil a day lowered their blood cholesterol but left them with more cardiac events than untreated controls after two years.
Use of dietary linoleic acid for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease and death: evaluation of recovered data from the Sydney Diet Heart Study and updated meta-analysis
This study claims that telling men who had survived a heart attack to replace saturated fat with safflower oil raised their death rate over the following years, from all causes, heart disease, and cardiovascular disease.
Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism
This study claims that MMR vaccination does not increase autism risk, trigger autism in susceptible children, or cause autism cases to cluster after vaccination.
Genetic compensation triggered by mutant mRNA degradation
This study claims that when mutations produce RNA that gets broken down, the breakdown triggers nearby genes with similar sequences to make more RNA, protecting the organism from the mutation's effects.
Circular RNAs are a large class of animal RNAs with regulatory potency
This study claims that thousands of circular RNAs exist in animals and regulate gene activity by binding other RNA molecules, found by sequencing and computer analysis.
A noncontiguous code for RNA-guided DNA recognition at the origin of CRISPR-Cas
This study claims that an ancient RNA-guided system uses a gapped code to recognize DNA, revealing how CRISPR immunity evolved from viruses fighting viruses.
Ring nucleases deactivate type III CRISPR ribonucleases by degrading cyclic oligoadenylate
This study claims that certain bacterial proteins switch off the bacteria's defense against viruses by chopping up the alarm molecule that turns that defense on.
Bridge RNAs direct programmable recombination of target and donor DNA
This study claims that a strand of RNA can be rewritten to direct a protein to cut, paste, and flip stretches of DNA at chosen locations.
Autonomous AI agents discover reverse transcriptases with tandem repeat arrays
This study claims that autonomous AI agents discovered a new family of reverse transcriptases in bacterial viruses that carry tandem repeat arrays upstream, producing abundant RNAs during infection.
Megabase-scale human genome rearrangement with programmable bridge recombinases
This study claims that engineered RNA-guided enzymes can rearrange the human genome by inserting, cutting out, and flipping stretches of DNA up to nearly a million letters long.
Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2
This study claims that an AI trained on 9 trillion letters of DNA sequence can predict how genetic changes affect living things and can design new genome-scale sequences that work.
Genomics of Educational Attainment Across 80 Years of Social and Political Transformation in Germany
This study claims that DNA-based scores for educational attainment, called polygenic indices, are associated with years of education and intergenerational educational mobility across 80 years of German history, and that these associations vary modestly by birth cohort, region, and gender.
Myeloid cell replacement induces intercellular mitochondrial transfer and restores metabolism in a mouse model of mitochondrial disease
This study claims that myeloid cell replacement induces intercellular mitochondrial transfer and restores metabolism in a mouse model of Friedreich's ataxia.
Trial of a Maternal Diet Rich in Eggs and Peanuts to Reduce Infant Allergy
This study claims that a maternal diet high in eggs and peanuts during pregnancy and lactation did not reduce the risk of IgE-mediated egg or peanut allergy in infants at one year of age.
Association Between Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Alzheimer Disease Neuropathology
This study claims that estrogen-only menopausal hormone therapy is associated with reduced Alzheimer disease pathology on autopsy, lower amyloid biomarker levels in plasma and CSF, and lower odds of clinical dementia diagnoses.
Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
This study claims that New Jersey's minimum wage increase from $4.25 to $5.05 per hour did not reduce employment at fast food restaurants, and that employment in New Jersey rose relative to Pennsylvania after the increase.
High-fat diet exposure induces IgG accumulation in hypothalamic microglia
This study claims that high-fat diet exposure induces IgG accumulation in microglia of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, independent of body weight or genetic obesity.
RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF EFFECT OF RAW AND HOLDER PASTEURISED HUMAN MILK AND OF FORMULA SUPPLEMENTS ON INCIDENCE OF NEONATAL INFECTION
This study claims that using formula and heating breast milk (pasteurizing it) increases the illness rate in newborns.
A Refinement of the Michelson-Morley Experiment
This study claims that a refined Michelson-Morley experiment using a compact helium-filled interferometer found no shift in the interference pattern, failing to confirm Miller's reported ether drift.
Impact of helmet laws on motorcycle crash mortality rates
This study claims universal helmet laws are associated with a 36% to 45% decline in motorcycle crash mortality rates across all age groups, while partial helmet laws are associated with increased fatality rates compared to both no helmet laws and universal laws.
ANTi-Vax: a novel Twitter dataset for COVID-19 vaccine misinformation detection
This study claims to build a labeled Twitter dataset for detecting COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and train machine learning models to classify it.
Could dark energy be changing over time?
This study claims that DESI's observations suggest dark energy has varied in strength over cosmic time, weakening in the current era.
Longitudinal Trends in Efficiency and Complexity of Surgical Procedures: Analysis of 1.7 Million Operations Between 2019 and 2023
This study claims that operative times and patient complexity for most surgical procedures increased or stayed the same from 2019 to 2023, so CMS's proposed efficiency adjustment to surgical pay is not supported by registry data.
Conspiracy spillovers and geoengineering
This study claims conspiracy theories, especially chemtrails, dominate public reactions to solar geoengineering on Twitter, spillover across countries and into broader political movements, and that online toxicity amplifies anti-SRM sentiment.
Effect of the high-level trigger for detecting long-lived particles at LHCb
This study claims that modifying the LHCb trigger algorithms to reconstruct downstream and T-tracks would greatly increase the experiment's sensitivity to long-lived particles predicted by beyond-Standard-Model physics.
RETRACTED: Relative Incidence of Office Visits and Cumulative Rates of Billed Diagnoses Along the Axis of Vaccination
This study claims vaccinated children have higher rates of billed office visits for numerous diagnoses compared to unvaccinated children, and that unvaccinated children are healthier overall.
Dietary sugar intake and risk of depression: findings from the TwinsUK cohort
This study claims higher dietary sugar intake is associated with higher depression risk, defined by HADS scores above 7, independent of fat subtypes.
Large-scale exome analyses reveal new rare variant contributions in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
This study claims that rare DNA variants in specific genes contribute to ALS risk, identified by sequencing exomes from thousands of people with and without the disease.
Changes in Genetic Contributions to ASD and ADHD by Year of Diagnosis
This study claims that polygenic scores, computed from genotyping arrays and statistical models, show declining genetic risk among people diagnosed with ASD or ADHD over time, supporting the idea that broadened diagnostic criteria explain rising diagnosis rates.
Effects of daily multivitamin-multimineral supplementation on metabolomic profiles: 2-year findings from the COSMOS randomized clinical trial
This study claims that taking a daily multivitamin-multimineral supplement changes metabolomic profiles over two years in a randomized trial population.
Advances in core technologies for semiconductor manufacturing: applications and challenges of atomic layer etching, neutral beam etching and atomic layer deposition
This study claims that atomic layer etching, neutral beam etching, and atomic layer deposition processes achieve "atomic-scale precision", enabling fabrication of next-generation miniaturized semiconductor devices.
Raw Meat Consumption and Food Safety Challenges: A Survey of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Consumers in Lebanon
This study claims Lebanese consumers have insufficient food safety knowledge and need more education to reduce the risk of food poisoning from raw meat.
Public health risks of raw milk consumption: Lessons from a case of paediatric hemolytic uremic syndrome
This study claims that raw milk consumption caused E. coli O157:H7 infection and hemolytic uremic syndrome in a child, and that pasteurization prevents this harm.
Serum Cholesterol Levels and Risk of Cardiovascular Death: A Systematic Review and a Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies
This study claims that higher total cholesterol and LDL-C levels increase cardiovascular death risk while higher HDL-C levels decrease it, based on a pooled analysis of 14 prospective cohort studies.
A microprotein atlas of the human frontal cortex in Alzheimer’s disease
This study claims that 1,067 tiny proteins exist in the human brain and that some change in Alzheimer's disease, identified by matching mass spectrometry signals against computer-generated predictions built from assembled sequences.
COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory Season
This study claims COVID-19 vaccines reduce hospitalization and death across multiple populations, counting only outcomes tagged as COVID-19-associated by model-dependent tests.
Re-evaluation of the traditional diet-heart hypothesis: analysis of recovered data from Minnesota Coronary Experiment (1968-73)
This study claims that replacing saturated fat with linoleic acid lowers blood cholesterol but does not reduce death or coronary disease, and that previously unpublished trial data shows the diet-heart hypothesis lacks support.
Saturated Fat and Health: Recent Advances in Research
The paper sells the idea that dietary saturated fat is not harmful and may be beneficial, challenging current dietary recommendations, using allopathic disease categories and model-dependent biomarkers.
Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19
The study claims that dexamethasone reduces 28-day death in hospitalized patients diagnosed with COVID-19.
A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin
The authors claim they identified a "new coronavirus" from patient samples and proved it caused a respiratory disease outbreak, using PCR, cell culture, and genome sequencing.
Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
This study claims that 41 patients hospitalized in Wuhan were infected with a "new coronavirus", 2019-nCoV, and that the infection caused their fever, lung damage and the six deaths.
Multiplex genome engineering using CRISPR/Cas9 systems
This study claims that a bacterial protein, Cas9, can be aimed by short RNA molecules to cut DNA at chosen spots in the genes of human and mouse cells, that it can be used to modify one strand for precise repair, and that several guides at once let it edit many sites simultaneously.