Carl T. Bergstrom, Publications

AI will turn our lives into The Truman Show

Carl T. Bergstrom and C. Brandon Ogbunu

2024 Scientific American

Misinformation

Support US OCTOPUS Act to keep octopuses wild

Jennifer Jacquet, Becca Franks, et al.

2024 Science

Social media is junk food for information foragers

Carl T. Bergstrom and C. Brandon Ogbunugafor

2024 Scientific American

Misinformation, Evolution and Medicine

Undue publicity for a flawed fraud detector

Carl T. Bergstrom and C. Brandon Ogbunugafor

2023 Science
A response to a hopelessly credulous Science news piece about an effort to create a fake paper detector.

Misinformation, Bibliometrics

How publishers can fight misinformation in and about science and medicine

Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West

2023 Nature Medicine

Misinformation

Letter to the Editor: Applying D.E.I. to Science

Carl T. Bergstrom

2023 The New York Times

Science of Science, Misinformation

ChatGPT Isn’t ‘Hallucinating.’ It’s Bullshitting.

Carl T. Bergstrom and Brandon Ogbunu

2023 Undark

Misinformation

Eight rules to combat medical misinformation

Carl T. Bergstrom

2022 Nature Medicine

Misinformation, Epidemiology

Twitter Was Influential in the Pandemic. Are We Better for It?

Carl T. Bergstrom

2022 The New York Times

Epidemiology, Misinformation, Science of Science

To Fight Misinformation, We Need to Teach That Science Is Dynamic

Carl T. Bergstrom, Daniel R. Pimental, et al.

2022 Scientific American

Misinformation, Science of Science

An Introduction to Calling Bullshit: Learning to Think Outside the Black Box

Jevin West and Carl T. Bergstrom

2022 Numeracy

Misinformation

A High-Speed Scientific Hive Mind Emerged from the COVID Pandemic

Carl T. Bergstrom and Joe Bak-Coleman

2022 Scientific American

Science of Science, Epidemiology, Misinformation

The CDC is Wrong: Testing is essential for colleges to reopen safely

Carl T. Bergstrom

2020 The Chronicle of Higher Education

Epidemiology

The Great Reopening Debate: Testing, Testing, Testing.

Carl T. Bergstrom and Theodore C. Bergstrom

2020 The Chronicle of Higher Education
Without our approval, the Chronicle cut out key paragraphs and weakened our message. The links above go to the version that we submitted. Here is the version they actually published.

Epidemiology

What the Proponents of ‘Natural’ Herd Immunity Don’t Say

Carl T. Bergstrom and Natalie Dean

2020 The New York Times

Epidemiology

Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 prevention? How to separate science from partisanship

Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom

2020 NBC News

Misinformation, Epidemiology

What the `Grievance Studies' Hoax Means

Carl T. Bergstrom

2018 The Chronicle of Higher Education

Misinformation, Science of Science

You lookin' at me?

Carl T. Bergstrom, Brian Wasik, et al.

2016 British Jounal of Clinical Pharmacology
Correcting an amusing detail of Cohen et al's report on an organized peer review fraud.

Misinformation, Science of Science, Bibliometrics

More on Data Sharing

Carl T. Bergstrom

2016 New England Journal of Medicine
Commnet on Longo and Drazen's "research parasite" debacle. Also: my view of what Longo and Drazen should have written.

Science of Science