Lewis Perdue

Hangry is a real thing. sciencealert.com/ever-felt-hang…

Great RFK Jr quote: “When you buy a box of cereal or a can of soup, the most dangerous ingredients aren't even listed on the label. They are the toxic contaminants leaching from the plastic liners and the synthetic coatings directly into the food.”is there a link somewhere ?

@RFKJr_Official I love this this quote (is there a link somewhere ?) “When you buy a box of cereal or a can of soup, the most dangerous ingredients aren't even listed on the label. They are the toxic contaminants leaching from the plastic liners and the synthetic coatings directly into the food.

Do you know that the commercially made bread and cereals you have for breakfast everyday are full of glyphosate and other pesticides and herbicides, and are a likely cause of your autoimmune diseases from irritable gut and eczema to asthma and thyroid problems? The root of the issue goes deep into big agrochemical and seed companies (Bayer/Monsanto, Corteva, Syngenta, etc.) that dominate the seed and pesticide/herbicide markets and significantly influence farming practices. Their contractual agreements with farmers mandate the exclusive use of their GMO seeds (engineered to withstand heavy use of chemicals) and unnecessarily excessive use of their herbicides and pesticides. Farmers, facing economic pressures, are forced to adopt these practices. Our @HHSGov will collaborate with other departments, including @USDA and @EPA , to implement policies that limit pesticide use and support organic farming. The FDA will impose the strictest limits on pesticides and herbicides in food to change agricultural practices. Americans deserve normal, healthy food, and no one should be consuming pesticides and herbicides from their meals.

@LeeGoldberg Oh Hell!

This is very bad news for authors and publishers. The Associated Press is no longer publishing/distributing book reviews.

@Siobhanmcandrew Good article! (Said former journalism professor). Perhaps worth mentioning that the outcomes of this might have been very different if the occupants of the boat had personal flotation devices on, or handy.

Now 7 confirmed dead after Tahoe boat capsized in freak storm. 1 boater still missing rgj.com/story/news/202…

@MushtaqBilalPhD I have found that asking ScholarGPT to audit and verify citations has diminished hallucinations

Looks like ChatGPT o3 does not hallucinate. No fake references to research papers that don't exist.

@MushtaqBilalPhD So, no ScholarGPT anymore?

@ReneDrew7 @Bob_Wachter @AHRQNews @UCSF @ucdavis my recent post: “So what we’ve got is a bunch of financial Hitlers who don’t care what government does to people as long as it allows them to make a profit.” — From my 1981 thriller, the Delphi Betrayal about a conspiracy of billionaires looking for global dominance. On Amazon

@LewisPerdue @Bob_Wachter @AHRQNews @UCSF @ucdavis Perhaps you mean the Vandals are smashing, burning, marring the Tesla automobiles. Curious how the vandals attack their own.

The end of @AHRQNews is a blow to the safety & quality fields. I also just learned of the demise of AHRQ PSNet, which my @UCSF team & I launched ~20 years ago as the go-to federal patient safety resource, before handing it off to our friends @ucdavis for the past 6 years. RIP.

“So what we’ve got is a bunch of financial Hitlers who don’t care what government does to people as long as it allows them to make a profit.” — From my 1981 thriller, the Delphi Betrayal about a conspiracy of billionaires looking for global dominance.  amazon.com/Delphi-Betraya…

@MushtaqBilalPhD Seems logical to me.

@LewisPerdue That could be because of default model ChatGPT lets them use for a customGPT.

Google Scholar is useful, but it's stuck in the past. Ai2 is building a new AI-powered search engine for researchers. It looks for papers, follows citations, evaluates relevance, runs follow-up queries, and shows you only relevant papers — and it's free:

@MushtaqBilalPhD ScholarGPT has a massive hallucination problem

@LewisPerdue I think ScholarGPT also uses Semantic Scholar. Ai2 are the folks who developed Semantic Scholar. It's early days and it will only improve in the future.

nytimes.com/2025/03/26/hea… This totally opens the door to a massive human enginceered virus attack disaster like the one I described in my 1999 thriller, Slatewiper which has been re-issued by Brash Books (brash-books.com/book/slatewipe…)

Social security and Medicare payments go down when people die faster.

Strangle the beast’s money supply…

@BumillerNYT Awesome oligarchy article! My 1981 novel, “Delphi Betrayal” predicted this. I wrote it after leaving D.C. to teach journalism at UCLA following my stint in investigative reporting (Water and Koreagate) and Serving as press secy to Thad Cochran — a close friend of John Anderson.

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How about a thriller about a global oligarchy of wealthy billionaires & their corporations. It’s called The Delphi Betrayal Published in 1981. I wrote it. Some of the specific details are different. But the characters & the story have survived intact. amazon.com/Delphi-Betraya…

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Weapons, Warfare, and High-Caliber Writing. My master class at the San Francisco Writers Conference: lewisperdue.com/archives/6336 #writing #thrillers #fiction #authors