When science meets Google: Reflections on research and evidence in the age of science deniers
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Noni is a former Dean of Medicine at Dalhousie University. Her two current major areas of interest are 1) Vaccines, including vaccine safety, hesitancy, demand, pain mitigation, education and policy especially through her work with the World Health Organization as a member of Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization and 2) MicroResearch, building capacity in community-focused research in developing countries and now also in Canada to help interdisciplinary health professionals find local solutions for community health problems that fit the context, culture and resources. Noni has long been internationally recognized as an advocate for children and youth health and as a leader in pediatric infectious disease and global health.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.319 | 0.627 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.012 | 0.015 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.035 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.044 | 0.085 |
| Open science | 0.011 | 0.024 |
| Research integrity | 0.052 | 0.074 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.020 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".