#writingcommunity #horror #action #shortstories Another short story dropping: The Survivors. North of North Korea defectors are disappearing. Chinese and Russian border guards, neglected and forgotten, must band together against unspeakable horror. amazon.com/dp/B0GJ5SMV46

Return of the Dragonriders is now revised with original illustrations by the author! If you like fantasy with cute baby dragons Or "Good vs. Evil" but with blind fear & hate as the enemies Or powerful, destructive forces of nature as allies ... books2read.com/return1

ANNOUNCEMENT: WE’RE SAVING SCIENCE! We’re often told that science is “self-correcting.” But that’s not really true. Science doesn’t correct itself like a thermostat adjusting the temperature in your house. Science is a human institution run by human beings. And human beings are vulnerable to career incentives, groupthink, moral fads, political pressure, and fear. And when those forces capture academic journals, peer review stops being a filter for bad ideas and starts becoming more of a credentialing system for fashionable nonsense. This isn’t exactly new. In 1996, the physicist Alan Sokal managed to publish a totally gibberish article in the journal Social Text full of trendy postmodern jargon. His point was simple: if you flatter the ideological commitments of certain academic editors, nonsense can pass as real scholarship. Two decades later, @ConceptualJames, @HPluckrose , and @peterboghossian pulled off the “grievance studies” hoax, placing over a half dozen absurd papers in peer-reviewed journals. One paper used dog parks to analyze rape culture and queer performativity. Another rewrote parts of Mein Kampf in the language of feminist theory. The problem wasn’t just that fake papers got published. It was that they were completely indistinguishable from the real thing. And today, the problem is even worse. We now have serious SCIENCE journals publishing papers about feminist lesbians marrying brine shrimp. We have disturbing papers that aim to “queer” and sexualize infants. We have scholarship on “lesbian-queer-trans-canine relationalities” and “trans-dog intimacies.” But while Clown World papers are concerning because it makes a complete mockery of academia, the same broken, ideologically captured system is also publishing research in legitimate science and medical journals that pushes sex and gender pseudoscience, relies on deeply flawed data, and influences policies on the medical transition of children and young adults. That’s not funny. That affects real people. It affects medicine. It affects law. It affects children. And when critics try to respond, they often discover there’s no serious mechanism for correction. Submitted Letters to the Editor often go completely ignored. Contrary evidence is rejected without comment. As a result, the best critiques are often relegated to personal blog posts, social media threads, or newspaper op-eds, while the original paper remains in the literature wearing the armor of “peer review.” That is untenable. So Kevin McCaffree, editor-in-chief of Theory and Society (@Theory_Society), and I decided to do something about it. Today, in the Wall Street Journal, we announced a first-of-its-kind article type called “Peer Review.” The idea is simple: publication should be the beginning of academic scrutiny, not the end of it. A Peer Review article can critique a paper from any scholarly journal. It can address problems with methods, evidence, logic, definitions, theory, or interpretation. But it has to focus on the claims and arguments, not personal attacks. Submissions are capped at 2,500 words and go through a straightforward merit review instead of endless gatekeeping and ideological screening. We ask just one basic question: Is this critique coherent, serious, reasonable, or even popular enough to deserve scholarly attention? If yes, it gets published. And the authors of the original paper get a built-in right of reply, so readers can see the critique and the response in a legitimate academic venue. That’s how science is supposed to work. Science becomes self-correcting only when real people build the mechanisms that allow correction to happen. That’s what we’ve done. Now it’s time for academics to use it. Read our announcement on the @WSJ below. 🔗wsj.com/opinion/a-way-to-cha…

Nadia was kidnapped, raped and sold by ISIS. Her brothers were killed for refusing to convert to Islam. Her mother was killed for being too old to be a sex slave. Her event to share her story was canceled in Canada because the local Muslim community deemed it “Islamophobic.”

This certainly was not an easy article to write or publish. In this article, I discuss the harms of DEI in medical education and the effects it is having on our field. Thank you @compactmag and @matthewschmitz for having the courage to publish it. compactmag.com/article/medic…

The pursuit of a corrupt official started a 2,000-year fight for justice. Max and the Hidden Visitor. The prequel, Max and the Regent Supreme. Two thousand years collide in Max and the Corporate Takeover See bio for UK links, but available on Amazon and KU globally

Forbidden Offerings is a deranged, gory horror novel that takes the reader on a journey into madness and depravity. amazon.com/Forbidden-Offerin…

I’m building a folk-horror film from the ground up. One email list subscriber will appear in the film receive a piece of the creature. Follow the journey → mtgravestudio.com

In a #dystopian future, Alita becomes tribute to the leader of a mysterious race of saber cats US a.co/d/84CLE3t Canada a.co/d/1bTDR60 UK amzn.eu/d/dvDQ51F Germany amzn.eu/d/1k20OTM #Magic #shapeshifter x.com/jordana_greene…

a.co/d/dd3Ds49 Enemy of the Shadow A secret organization has been slowly making their move for power. Two kids, orphaned by this organization, are now fighting back against them. Taken in by their master and trained how to be the perfect solution.

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A Book 2 update! And a little sneak peek :) open.substack.com/pub/jchock… #IndieAuthor #fantasy #Reading #readingcommunity #booktwt #bookstagram #booktok #books

Misrepresents a scientific article. Completely reversing what it says, declares victory. We have a pattern here. It's post after post. 🤣 As usual he got his ass handed to him by actual knowledge and his misrepresentations (lies) revealed.

Here's another stylized animation that Creationists and ID proponents are passing around as "evidence" of Intelligent Design. What they're really doing is trying to take advantage of hopeful credulity and epidemic ignorance. This thread addresses and refutes their arguments. 1/🧵

„Ritter und Ross – Die emotionale Vorgeschichte zur Chroniken von Mareen-Reihe. Verlust, Pflicht und ein Funke Hoffnung in einer gebrochenen Welt.“ #Fantasy #Buchstart2026 #DeutscheFantasy #BuchTwitter #IndieAuthor #RitterUndRoss

The British Establishment has a simple rule: The problem is never the problem. The problem is people who dare to point out the problem. Grooming gangs, illegal immigration, terrorism, men in women's prisons, Net Zero. Same playbook every time: "racist", "denier", "Nazi". You'd think when you're calling a beloved children's author a Nazi, you'd maybe stop and pause. But no. Another part of the rule is that no matter how right the "bad" people turn out to be, they remain tainted by having been right. Feminists like JK Rowling were vilified for opposing puberty blockers being given to children. The government rowed back on the policy. But the women who spoke out against it are still considered bigots. Grooming gangs turned out to be racist anti-white hate crimes. If this had been done by an invading army, it would be rightly treated as a war crime. But the people who covered it up and ignored it are still the "good" people and the people who complained about it are still the "bad" people. The same is true of illegal immigration. Islamism. Net Zero. And this is why the country is screwed. Because we live in a society where the golden rule is that you must tolerate the intolerable or you'll be made a pariah for caring about the safety of British women and girls, for wanting a cohesive society, for wanting a strong economy. I've had enough of this and my sense is so have the British people. We won't keep quiet anymore. Call us all the names you want. It doesn't work anymore.

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