NeurIPS Paper Shows Systemic Failure in Medical Retrieval-Based Fact-Checking

A Johns Hopkins team's NeurIPS Oral paper finds that retrieval-then-verify medical fact-checking fails systematically, and bigger models, more reasoning, better sources, or domain fine-tuning do not fix it.

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