AZ Jafferi

Registrar ED, Emergency enthusiast, @MFTnhs A&E, a mother to most naughty kids ever, speaker, writer, poet. Feminist!

[AZ Jafferi @AZJafferi]

Honored to be part of such a great team! What inspirational women!! #FeminEM future is great for #emergencymedicine in #Pakistan #PSEM

[Elias Al @iam_elias1]

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 ·

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[Dr Johnny Bananas @barbedquill]

@London_W4 Imagine taking photos of people *specifically* dressed to protect their privacy then posting on here without their permission for a few likes

Anyway, enjoy your day. Going to be packed with loads of fellow racists

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

@Keir_Starmer @HarrietHarman You support and fund this with our British taxes.

[AtikaAhmed (شرپسند) @AtikaAhmed7]

The honorable deputy prime minister @MIshaqDar50 !

As a citizen , I highly appreciate your efforts to safely evacuated the 22 crew members of MV Touska vessel.
Now, I wanna bring your attention to another hijacked ship in somalia by Somali pirates.
There are 11 crew members of Pakistani citizenship in that ship. So far, no progress into this matter.
I request you to plz take this matter also into account & help those innocent sailors return back home safely.
Jazak Allah Khair.

[Dr Aadam Aziz @Aadam_Aziz]

It’s not just about hospital doctors.
The jobs crisis extends to GP training too.

We’ve got doctors who want to be GP's, and patients who can’t get a GP appointment.

People end up in A&E because they can’t get GP appointments, adding even more strain to a system already on its knees

[Dr Aadam Aziz @Aadam_Aziz]

This is the sad reality of a normal day in the NHS. No strikes, No excuses.

Yet we’ve got fully qualified doctors sitting unemployed while patients are left waiting 21 hours in A&E.

Years of mismanagement and catastrophic workforce planning failure.

What a betrayal to patients

[Sann @san_x_m]

His name is Mohammad Aamir Khan.

On the night of February 20, 1998, his mother asked him to buy medicines from a shop in Old Delhi. He was 18 years old.

He never made it to the shop.

Men in plain clothes stopped him on the street. He did not know they were police officers. They took him to an abandoned building. For seven days, he was held in illegal custody. He was tortured. He was forced to sign blank sheets of paper.

Then the Delhi Police Special Cell produced him in court and charged him with 19 counts of bombing across Delhi, Ghaziabad, Rohtak and Sonepat between December 1996 and October 1997.

He was presented to the media as a terrorist.

His family was never informed. They spent days searching police stations before finding out what had happened.

He spent 14 years in prison. Through torture. Through solitary confinement. He watched case after case fall apart in court as evidence was shown to be fabricated.

In 2012, he was acquitted in 17 of 19 cases. Two cases remain pending. He had already served more time in jail than the maximum sentence he could have received even if convicted on all charges.

He walked out of prison in January 2012.

His father had died while he was inside. His mother had suffered a stroke so severe she no longer recognised him when he walked through the door.

The National Human Rights Commission directed the Delhi government to pay him compensation.

The amount was Rs 5 lakh.

No officer from the Delhi Police Special Cell was charged. No one was suspended. No inquiry was ordered.

He wrote a book about what was done to him. He called it Framed As A Terrorist. My 14 Year Struggle To Prove My Innocence.

He now helps other wrongfully accused prisoners navigate the system that destroyed him.

India gave him Rs 5 lakh and called it justice.

Follow for real stories India never makes headlines about.

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

#PAKWatch🇵🇰: IMRAN KHAN has now been ILLEGALLY INCARCERATED for 1,000 DAYS.

The last time I spoke to Captain Pakistan was in April 2023.

I'm looking forward to speaking with my friend Imran Khan again. We have a lot of lost ground to make up.

FREE IMRAN KHAN.

[Iran Army Media @IranArmyMedia]

America has not arrested a single pedophile mentioned in the Epstein files. Not a single girl got justice.

And these are the same Americans you want us to believe are worried about women in Iran.

They killed 168 girls between the ages of 7 and 12 in Iran.

[Akunjee 🖋 @mohammedakunjee]

This has got to be the worst betrayal in human history - European Jews begging to enter Palestine after being genocided by Europeans only to genocide their hosts for the next 70+ years. Ya … never forget indeed !

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

This boy jumped for joy welcoming the pope in Lebanon in November and today they pulled his body from the rubble after Israel’s bombing.
Last year, only 5 members of Congress voted with me when I tried to defund Israel, who bombs and kills the innocent.

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

Israeli strike kills infant girl in Lebanon while she is at her father's funeral

Read it again

And ask yourself, when is it enough?

How much more depravity must we witness until there is accountability?

When does Israeli impunity end?

We must speak up against this insanity

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

“Moaning minnies”
“Juvenile delinquents”
“Organ grinder”
“Monkeys”

Just a few e.g. of the vile language @wesstreeting has used to publicly insult resident & senior doctors

Dear Wes - here’s a reminder of the NHS workplace bullying criteria…it seems you’re ticking a few boxes

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

When 12 people were killed in Charlie Hebdo attacks, World Leaders thronged to Paris for a Solidarity March

But no world leader has organised a march to protest killing 2000 civilians, ~200 children, ~300 women, 7 journalists, 178 health workers, and 3 UN peacekeepers in Lebanon

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed Farizal in South Lebanon.

He wasn’t a fighter — he was a UN PEACEKEEPER from Indonesia.

A father. A husband.

Israel killed him anyway.

And not a peep from Western media.

No global outrage. No condemnation. No accountability.

[AZ Jafferi @AZJafferi]

@Hwasong20 @KimIversenShow Remember US killed the person stopping it?

[AZ Jafferi @AZJafferi]

@bald26068 @KhSaad_Rafique You wrote in so many words that your religion is zionism and then claimed to be atheist. Do not drag Christianity in to everything. Also do you know who owned the piece if land that you stand on ATM? If their next generations come demanding for it will you leave?

[Tracey @agirltoo]

@GeneralMCNews Pretty soon…..just insert Turkey.

I mean, just fucking ridiculous @POTUS @DanScavino

[AZ Jafferi @AZJafferi]

@mustikhanUSA @KhSaad_Rafique Pitting two conflicts together? Should I not support Gaza if I want to support Balochistan? Or you are asking for Israeli help like Pahlavi idiots?