13 September 2026
The Weekly Slice № 002
Welcome to The Weekly Slice, from baloney.ai, The Truth Deli — good to have you back at the counter.
Today's order comes in matched pairs: a vaccine and a Moon landing, each sliced twice, once as the accusation you have heard shouted at a barbecue and once as the flat statement of what the records say. Same subjects, cut two ways, and five models asked to taste each cut without knowing what the others made of it.
Still hungry after that? There is a free teaching resource on the side shelf — "Understanding Science: How Science Works," published by the University of California, Berkeley, on the scientific process itself.
This week’s baloney
Food for thought
Understanding Science: How Science Works
University of California, Berkeley · introductory
Anyone who has spent a week fact-checking ends up needing a working account of how scientific claims actually get made, tested and abandoned. That is what this is: an educational resource from the University of California, Berkeley, presenting the process as iterative, creative, sceptical, collaborative and self-correcting, rather than the tidy sequence of steps taught in school. No author is named, which is standard for a departmental teaching project. It exists for readers who want the mechanics rather than the mythology, and it costs nothing, which is more than can be said for most explanations of the same territory.
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