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This isn’t satire. It’s time to organise and beat the bosses

ChatGPT diagnosed 40 million people with a disease that was invented as a joke. Not a real disease. Not a misunderstood disease. A completely fictional condition with a fake name, fake papers, and fake statistics. And it told patients to see a specialist. The disease is called Bixonimania. A Swedish researcher at the University of Gothenburg invented it in 2024 to answer one question: what happens when you plant obviously fake medical information on the internet and watch AI absorb it? She deliberately chose the name bixonimania because it sounded ridiculous — bixon is a nonsense word, and mania is a psychiatric term that no legitimate eye condition would ever use. She uploaded two papers to a preprint server. Both were obviously fraudulent. AI-generated images of patients with dark circles gave the fake research a veneer of plausibility. Then she waited. She did not have to wait long. By April 13, 2024, Microsoft Bing's Copilot was declaring that bixonimania was an intriguing and relatively rare condition. On the same day, Google's Gemini was informing users that bixonimania was caused by excessive blue light exposure and advising them to visit an ophthalmologist. Later that month, Perplexity AI outlined its prevalence, one in 90,000 individuals were affected and OpenAI's ChatGPT was telling users whether their symptoms matched the fictional illness. One in 90,000. A precise statistic. For a disease that does not exist. Every red flag was visible. The name was absurd. The papers were crude. The condition made no scientific sense. None of the AI systems flagged any of it. They read the fake papers. They absorbed the fake statistics. They presented both to patients with clinical authority and zero hesitation. Then it got worse. Three researchers at the Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in India published a paper in Cureus, a peer-reviewed journal owned by Springer Nature, the parent publisher of Nature itself that cited the bixonimania preprints as legitimate sources. A real peer-reviewed paper. In a Springer Nature journal. Citing a fictional disease as established medical fact. Passing editorial review. Entering the permanent scientific record. It was only retracted after the hoax became public. Nature published a full investigation of the experiment. Alex Ruani, a health-misinformation researcher at University College London, called it a masterclass in how misinformation operates. Here is the scale of what this means. More than 40 million people turn to ChatGPT every day for health information, according to OpenAI's own analysis. ECRI, a US patient-safety nonprofit has named chatbot misuse the number-one health technology hazard of 2026. ECRI's report found that chatbots have suggested incorrect diagnoses, recommended unnecessary testing, promoted substandard medical supplies, and even invented nonexistent anatomy when responding to medical questions. Number one. Out of every health technology hazard that exists in 2026. An April 2026 study published in BMJ Open found that nearly half of the answers provided by leading AI chatbots to common health questions contain misleading or problematic information. Nearly half. Of all health answers. From the tools 40 million people use every day. Here is the line from the researcher that cuts through everything. The Bixonimania case is striking precisely because it was engineered to be so obviously fake. The real question it raises is: what is passing through the same systems that is not nearly so easy to spot? The experiment used a ridiculous name. Fraudulent papers. Visible red flags at every level. It was designed to be caught. It was not caught. The AI that told patients about Bixonimania is the same AI they asked about their chest pain, their medication, their child's symptoms, and their cancer screening schedule. 40 million people. Every day. And nobody is telling them that nearly half of what comes back may be wrong. Source: Osmanovic Thunström · University of Gothenburg · Nature · April 2026 · Link in the (comments)

All @FulhamFC attending the game today, regardless of your personal opinions or those you have formed by the clubs PR/Media spin, Marco Silva is a Fulham FC LEGEND and should be given a LEGENDS reception!!! This club is a better club with him in IMO! #onemarcosilva #FFC #COYW

@premnsikka £281m paid in debt interest in a single year. The stores didn't fail. They were fed to the debt first 😏. The government became the headline so the balance sheet never would. That's not mismanagement ... that's the design 👀!!!

@premnsikka This seems to be the average PE playbook, within a week of some water companies being bought they immediately took out loans :/😯

Curse of Private Equity Morrisons to close 100 stores. Blames govt, silent on PE looting. PE loaded company with £6.6bn debt, cut staff, sold-off petrol stations, indulged in sale and leaseback of assets, extracted returns. PE devouring high street. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@premnsikka Sir Ken Morrison turning in his grave due to heavily debt-fueled takeover by the US private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) as he loathed borrowing money and built the supermarket empire on a store-by-store, profit-funded basis.

CLASSIC CLIP 📺 Nigel Farage explaining how to exploit and profit from the very same system that he claimed to rail against. Including using one’s wife to account for financial irregularities...

I'm worried that Trump will launch a war on Cuba, to distract attention from his war on Iran, which distracted attention from his war on Venezuela, which distracted attention from the Epstein files

This is the best preserved medieval street in Europe. Recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, The Shambles in York, England has had shops trading on it for nearly a thousand years. It's older than the Crusades.

Co-op is the only supermarket in the UK NOT owned by Private Equity It's not just Morrisons Tesco, Sainsbury's and M&S are all owned by a combination of Blackrock/HSBC/Vanguard. So they are basically one supermarket The others are all owned by a single usually American company

@ColBennettH4 Isn’t this post just the BEST! Made my day! Love the wit ! Have sent to so many FFC supporters

When the decision is made next week I would like it to be done with a puff of smoke from the cottage chimneys. White he says, black he's goes.

This really is one of the great stories of Fulham’s season. Josh King breaking through, signing a new four year deal & now a mainstay in the Fulham first team squad is a wonderful thing. Two goals in all comps this season, still only 19 years old. More to come for sure. #FFC

@ColBennettH4 This post has made my day! Best of English humour!

This is brilliant!

So what happens when Reform take over your local council? This. #KentCountyCouncil

London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally. Authorities had planned major man-made flood infrastructure, but the beavers effectively created their own system — while also boosting biodiversity and restoring the ecosystem around them.

Pigs are naturally clean animals. They only roll in mud because they can't sweat and need to cool down. The filth you associate with pigs is what happens when you take away their space and water.

MPs are blaming regulator OfCom for the disaster at Royal Mail. This is a red herring. Ofcom can’t fix Royal Mail. To fix Royal Mail, let’s take it into public ownership and run it in the interest of households, not the profits of a Czech Billionaire.