Massive Anti-Russian 'Bot Army' Exposed by Australian Researchers

https://declassifiedaus.org/2022/11/03/strongmassive-anti-russian-bot-army-exposed-by-australian-researchers-strong/

New study from #Adelaide-University finds a massive pro-Ukraine #information-war on
Twitter with US and Ukrainian bot-armies posting millions of anti-Russia tweets and intimidating #free-thinking people who swim against the #US #propaganda #stream.

#PeterCronau #anti-russian #bot-army #bots #exposed #australian #researchers #twitter #propaganda #fake #social-media-accounts #politics #cyber-defense #influence #information-operation #russia #ukraine #australia

MASSIVE ANTI-RUSSIAN ‘BOT ARMY’ EXPOSED BY AUSTRALIAN RESEARCHERS - Declassified Australia

An Australian university has unearthed millions of Tweets by fake ‘bot’ accounts pushing disinformation on the Ukraine war.

Where does YOUR country stand?

World survey of conscription and conscientious objection to military service

War Resisters' International maintains the World survey of #conscription and conscientious objection to #military service - a database of country profiles and information on the situation for conscientious objectors (COs) and #conscripts around the world. This unique resource exists to assist #activists, #researchers, lawyers and other interested parties to find out more about both trends in conscription worldwide, and specific information on individual #states. It has been used to assist COs seeking #asylum, to give #solidarity activists #information in planning campaigns, to give campaigners against conscription examples from other states to put pressure on their own #governments, and in academic #research.

#peace #antiwar #pacifist #pacifism #ConscientiousObjectors #ConscientiousObjection

#Acupuncture is one of the #safest #treatments in #medicine

Two #independent #researchers selected articles, extracted the data and assessed study quality. Overall risks and risks for different AE categories were obtained from random effects meta-analyses.

Conclusion: Acupuncture can be considered among the safer treatments in medicine. SAEs are rare, and the most common minor AEs are very mild. AEs requiring medical management are uncommon but necessitate medical competence to assure patient safety. Clinical and methodological heterogeneity call for standardised AE assessments tools, clear criteria for differentiating acupuncture-related AEs from therapeutically desired reactions, and identification of patient-related risk factors for AEs.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34489268/
https://www.acupuncturetimes.com/acupuncture-is-one-of-the-safest-treatments-in-medicine/
#pubmed #acupuncture #resarch

Acupuncture-related adverse events: systematic review and meta-analyses of prospective clinical studies - PubMed

CRD42020151930.

What Can Fungi Teach Us?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbcIQpmiZ3Y

'Fungi are true #survival #specialists. They can live without #air and #sunlight, and cope with #heat and #cold. Some #researchers believe that #fungi can provide #clues as to how #humans can better #adapt to #global #warming, because they’ve #survived every major #climate #change that’s taken place over the course of millions of years.'
#whatcanfungiteachus #dw #documentary #mushrooms #science #fungal #biotechnology #yeast #chemical #mold #pharmaceutical #diversity

Research findings that are probably wrong cited far more than robust ones, #study finds

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/21/research-findings-that-are-probably-wrong-cited-far-more-than-robust-ones-study-finds

The study in #Science Advances is the latest to highlight the “replication crisis” where results, mostly in social science and medicine, fail to hold up when other #researchers try to repeat experiments. Following an influential paper in 2005 titled Why most published research findings are false, three major projects have found replication rates as low as 39% in psychology journals, 61% in economics journals, and 62% in social science studies published in the Nature and Science, two of the most prestigious journals in the world.

#research #news #fail #problem #manipulation #journal #review #experiment

A #team of #Chinese #researchers have turned #cheap #copper into a new material “almost identical” to gold.

The new material can resist high temperatures, oxidisation and erosion, according to the researchers.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2179209/chinese-scientists-turn-copper-gold