John Lucker

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@Gosleepriya Your skin

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@RealJamesWoods Never forget that IQ is a bell curve and half of all people are to the lower side of average. So yes, you can’t fix stupid. And quite a few of your Hollywood acquaintances seem to be on that lower side of average as well.

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@Variety Bari Weiss is the boss - like it or not. What job allows an employee to be disrespective to the boss and get away with it without ramifications?

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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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@TrueOnX Someone needs to release millions of turkeys, chickens, and guinea hens to eat all the ticks!

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@LifeNewsHQ When even Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson rule against a State, that State is clearly howling at the moon!

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@NRO @epaleezeldin @rosadelauro She is a spectacular embarrassment - to Congress, to Connecticut, and to all her constituents

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@FLOTUS Thank you Mrs. Trump for saying what needs to be said. While ABC & Kimmel will clutch their 1A pearls, we all know that if the shoe was on the other foot they’d be screeching from the hills. It’s more than time for more civil discourse in our country. Please Cancel Kimmel ABC.

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@CollinRugg Some X commenters: Why did you shoot the home invader 20 times?
Defensive Homeowner: because I ran out of bullets

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@SamanthaTaghoy People can be what they want to be - I'm MWMWTCACIFAILD -- "Married White Man With Three Children A Career In Finance And I Like Dogs"

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@EricLDaugh Looks like the Israeli reporter, @AmitSegal, that first reported, using secret leaked info, about the downed American pilot (endangering the pilot's life) could be in very serious legal trouble under Israeli law. See Grok's responses to my questions. https://t.co/vEAmPbrBjH

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@AmitSegal @grok Is it legal in Israel for an Israeli reporter to be arrested if he deliberately reports on a story that endangers an Israeli or US soldier's life and risks that soldier being killed by enemy combatants?

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Looks like the Israeli reporter, @AmitSegal, that first reported, using secret leaked info, about the downed American pilot (endangering the pilot's life) could be in very serious legal trouble under Israeli law. See Grok's responses to my questions. https://t.co/vEAmPbrBjH

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@AmitSegal @grok Is it legal in Israel for an Israeli reporter to be arrested if he deliberately reports on a story that endangers an Israeli or US soldier's life and risks that soldier being killed by enemy combatants?

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@AmitSegal @grok @grok Is it legal in Israel for an Israeli reporter to refuse to disclose his source of information when the source is an Israeli or American in a role to leak secret information that endangered the life of an allied soldier who was being hunted by enemy combatants in Iran?

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@AmitSegal @grok Is it legal in Israel for an Israeli reporter to be arrested if he deliberately reports on a story that endangers an Israeli or US soldier's life and risks that soldier being killed by enemy combatants?

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@TukiFromKL IMO, any economic holdback for a technology or medical treatment that can fundamentally help people should be considered a crime against humanity and punished legally, criminally, and economically

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Phew - it's April 2nd - I can now resume believing everything I read on the Internet

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@elonmusk @BillAckman That’s very generous of you. But the solution for this impasse is simple - any funding lapse that stretches more than 7 calendar days triggers suspension of pay for all members of Congress and all Staff. Inevitably funding agreements would happen quickly that way.

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@NIH Dr Makis. My good friend Paul who I connected with you for consultation and treatment unfortunately passed from his pancreatic cancer. He fought a valiant fight. Where in Florida will you be practicing? And when will Ivermectin be OTC in Florida?

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Not a new video, but one worth watching or rewatching as a reminder given the ongoing and pervasive hype of all things AI

https://t.co/wid8dPxjUo