The article explores the ongoing impact of the film 'Jaws' on societal views about sharks, introducing the 'Jaws effect' as a term used by researchers like marine biologist David Shiffman. This phenomenon highlights how fiction shapes public attitudes and political responses toward environmental issues. Additionally, the piece discusses innovative AI advancements that significantly reduce the production time for systematic medical reviews—transitioning from months to hours—although skepticism persists within the research community about the verifiability of these findings.
There's still widespread fear, and in some cases it's quite pseudoscientific in nature. Around the same time, Star Wars came out, and no one was afraid that the Death Star was going to blow up Earth.
For a scientific paper, its claims need to be verifiable - and I can't verify it.
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