Lab Muffin Beauty Science
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Does Olaplex repair disulfide bonds? Analysing the Cosmetics study
I’ve talked about how Olaplex and other bond builders probably don’t work by repairing broken disulfide bonds before – they do work to make hair feel and behave like it has more bonds, but they likely do this via other mechanisms, such as adding more hydrogen and ionic bonds.…
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How to spot AI science slop
AI-generated science content is super prone to factual errors. Here’s how to spot it… Why spot AI slop? Lots of typos and grammatical errors used to signal that something wasn’t checked carefully. Now, it’s AI slop signs. LLM-based chatbots (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) are prone to…
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Why you can’t trust AI chatbots for science
Lazy AI-generated content is everywhere now. Unfortunately, AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini aren’t reliable for factual content, especially science content. AI chatbots don’t “know things” AI chatbots don’t simply report information from a database, and they haven’t…
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Why sunscreen doesn’t cause skin cancer
There’s been a huge increase in social media posts about how: “The sun doesn’t cause skin cancer” “Sunscreen doesn’t prevent skin cancer” “Sunscreen causes skin cancer” I’ve been asked by more than one person in real life: “How do I explain to someone that it’s not sunscreen,…