Searching the web for science: how small mistakes create big problems – Nature (Jack Leeming | April 2023)
The proliferation of ‘smart’ tools that search the internet for information and published analyses without a commonsense understanding of the world comes with obvious dangers. This well-written piece uses the 31 km/h rosy wolfsnail to illustrate the point. The point being, we need to be sceptical of, and not overly reliant on, these tools.