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| Aug 4, 2026 | Cambridge Professor Jason Arday Faces 188-Sentence Plagiarism Finding; Charity Claims Disputed | By Devin Culbertson
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| Jul 26, 2026 | Chinese university investigating girl's death in gene-editing trial | BEIJING: A Chinese university is looking into reports that a gene-editing trial caused the death of a six-year-old girl, which was not disclosed in the published research, the school said on Sunday (Jul 26).
The girl, given the pseudonym &q... |
| Jun 17, 2026 | Пора редактировать людей | Привет, Хабр! Я Дарья Ярвиц, медицинский журналист, а герой статьи — российский биоинформатик, кандидат биологических наук Богдан Кириллов. Мы записали это интервью в 2024 году и обновили специально для Хабра в 2026. Богдан рассказывает о р... |
| Mar 28, 2026 | Патенты вместо диссертаций: как Китай меняет правила игры | Источник фото: Gemini
Китай — страна, которая подаёт почти половину всех патентных заявок в мире и публикует больше научных статей, чем любое другое государство. Но за этими цифрами десятилетиями скрывалась масштабная проблема: значительная... |
| Jan 9, 2026 | В каких условиях пишут научные статьи: взгляд с высоты птичьего полета | В предыдущей статье мы разобрали путь научной работы, от идеи и экспериментов до публикации в журнале. Теперь следующий шаг: узнать подробнее про условия, которые влияют на написание статей.
В этом материале мы разберём три ключевые проблем... |
| Sep 13, 2025 | Научный «дипфейк»? Как галлюцинации нейросетей — и другие проблемы — просачиваются в академические статьи | Нейронки периодически оказывают пользователям медвежью услугу и уверенно (инфа сотка!) выдают в ответ на запрос правдоподобные фейки. Если речь идет о журнальных статьях на тему «что почитать этим летом», получается веселый конфуз.
Совсем д... |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Администрация президента США отменила подписку на научные журналы Springer Nature | Администрация президента Дональда Трампа разорвала многомиллионный контракт с немецким научным издательством Springer Nature, которое долгое время предоставляло по подписке журналы Национальным институтам здравоохранения США и другим агентс... |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Bridging Knowledge Gaps: The Rise of PubSort and Global Academic Engagement | In a world drowning in information, clarity is gold. Enter PubSort, a revolutionary AI tool designed by 18-year-old Alan Cheng. This Rutgers freshman has transformed the academic landscape with a platform that condenses dense research paper... |
| Apr 24, 2025 | 18-Year-Old Launches PubSort - AI Tool Turning Papers Into 15-Second Reads | Alan Cheng
From late-night ramen to launch day: Rutgers freshman Alan Cheng built PubSort to crush academic jargon into bite-size insights. Now the 18-year-old invites the world to test the AI that can slash weeks off a lit-review.
NEW BRUN... |
| Feb 12, 2025 | Скандал в мире фармы: Cassava Sciences соврала о положительном результате лекарства от Альцгеймера | 3 мая 2021 года Мэтт Прайс отвез своего 73-летнего отца Стивена в Нью-Джерси, чтобы сделать ему первую инъекцию нового экспериментального лекарства «Симуфилама» от компании Cassava Sciences. Препарат, предназначенный для лечения болезни Аль... |
| Jan 9, 2025 | Редколлегия престижного научного журнала уволилась из-за внедрения AI, которое привело к увеличению ручного труда | 30 декабря 2024 года редакционная коллегия престижного научного журнала в области палеоантропологи и человеческой эволюции - Journal of Human Evolution (далее - JHE) - опубликовала в социальной сети X сообщение, в котором отказывалась от да... |
| May 29, 2024 | Aging in Place: Finding the Balance Between Independence and Safety for Older Adults | The concept of aging in place has gained popularity in recent years, with a significant number of older adults expressing a strong preference for remaining in their current homes as they grow older. This trend, known as "age in place,&... |
| May 25, 2024 | Health | Star USC scientist faces scrutiny — retracted papers and a paused drug trial | Both Zlokovic and representatives for USC declined to comment, citing an ongoing review initiated in the wake of the allegations, which were first reported in the journal Science.
“USC takes any allegations of research integrity very seriou... |
| Mar 19, 2024 | An AI-generated rat with a giant penis highlights a growing crisis of fake science that's plaguing the publishing business | Science An AI-generated rat with a giant penis highlights a growing crisis of fake science that's plaguing the publishing business
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| Jun 9, 2023 | How a now-retracted study got published in the first place, leading to a $3.8 million NIH grant | The scientific paper inspired international headlines with its bold claim that the combination of brain scans and machine learning algorithms could identify people at risk for suicide with 91% accuracy.
The promise of the work garnered lead... |
| Jan 26, 2023 | Africa: ChatGPT - Our Study Shows AI Can Produce Academic Papers Good Enough for Journals - Just As Some Ban It | Some of the world's biggest academic journal publishers have banned or curbed their authors from using the advanced chatbot, ChatGPT. Because the bot uses information from the internet to produce highly readable answers to questions, the pu... |
| Dec 2, 2022 | Image manipulation in science is suddenly in the news. But these cases are hardly rare | In 2004, Mike Rossner and Kenneth Yamada, two top editors at the Journal of Cell Biology, wrote an editorial alerting readers to what they saw as an emerging problem in science: Thanks to Photoshop, researchers could prettify the images in ... |
| Nov 17, 2022 | ‘Publication Laundering’: How Publishers Happily Accept Fake And Nonsense Conference Papers In The Pursuit Of Profits | Techdirt has written many times about the dysfunctional state of academic publishing. The main issue is that academics do most of the work required to publish a paper, but the publishers reap most of the benefit. Profit margins are extremel... |
| Jul 7, 2022 | Houston research: Why you need a data management plan | Why do you need a data management plan? It mitigates error, increases research integrity and allows your research to be replicated – despite the “replication crisis” that the research enterprise has been wrestling with for some time.
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| Jul 7, 2022 | Houston energy company announces new EV business arm | Houston-based energy retailer Octopus Energy U.S. is now getting its tentacles into the electric vehicle business.
Octopus Energy US on July 6 unveiled Octopus Electric Vehicles, whose first offering is EV Concierge. This new service will h... |
| Mar 8, 2022 | Наука является прикладной технологией и это создаёт проблемы | Умом — науку не понять,
Аршином общим не измерить:
У ней особенная стать —
В науку можно только верить.
Возможность продуктивного общения учёных друг с другом, включая возможность взаимной проверки научных работ, по какой-то причине считает... |
| Oct 4, 2021 | On a day to celebrate the Nobel in medicine, a stain still mars the institute that awards it | As the Nobel Assembly at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute announced Monday morning that David Julius of the University of California, San Francisco, and Ardem Patapoutian of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., won the 2021 Nobe... |
| Aug 18, 2021 | Biotech co-founder settles major research misconduct allegations with HHS | In one life, Viravuth Yin is an internationally-recognized expert in regenerative biology who pioneered the use of the zebrafish as a drug screening platform, discovered a potential new regenerative heart drug a... |
| Apr 16, 2021 | In highly unusual move, Pacira sues medical journal for libel over its non-opioid painkiller | A New Jersey biotech whose only approved drug is used as a painkiller after surgeries is suing a scientific journal, its editors and a handful of authors for libel after the publication printed numerous papers and ed... |
| Mar 22, 2021 | It's The End Of Citation As We Know It & I Feel Fine | Legal scholarship sucks. It’s interminably long. It’s relentlessly boring. And it’s confusingly esoteric. But the worst thing about legal scholarship is the footnotes. Every sentence gets one1. Banal statement of historical fact? Footnote. ... |
| Mar 22, 2021 | It's The End Of Citation As We Know It & I Feel Fine | Legal scholarship sucks. It?s interminably long. It?s relentlessly boring. And it?s confusingly esoteric. But the worst thing about legal scholarship is the footnotes. Every sentence gets one1. Banal statement of historical fact? Footnote. ... |
| Jan 4, 2021 | Our New Year’s Covid-19 Resolution Should Be: Separate Science And Politics | MERTHYR TYDFIL, WALES - JANUARY 04: A nurse administers the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to a patient ... [+] at Pontcae Medical Practice on January 4, 2021 in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. The Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was administered at... |
| Nov 3, 2020 | Countries controlling the coronavirus have 3 strategies in common: masking, robust testing and tracing, and a consistent federal plan | A coronavirus testing station in Seoul, South Korea. Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images
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The US and many countries in Europe are reporting record numbers of new coronavirus cases.
But countries like Australia, Taiwan, and China suc... |
| Nov 3, 2020 | Countries controlling the coronavirus have 3 strategies in common: masking, robust testing and tracing, and a consistent federal plan | A coronavirus testing station in Seoul, South Korea.
Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images
The US and many countries in Europe are reporting record numbers of new coronavirus cases.
But countries like Australia, Taiwan, and China successfully c... |
| Nov 3, 2020 | Countries controlling the coronavirus have 3 strategies in common: masking, robust testing and tracing, and a consistent federal plan | A coronavirus testing station in Seoul, South Korea. Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images
The US and many countries in Europe are reporting record numbers of new coronavirus cases.
But countries like Australia, Taiwan, and China successfully c... |
| Sep 14, 2020 | Did The Russians Fabricate Data About Their Covid-19 Vaccine Trial? | MOSCOW, RUSSIA - SEPTEMBER 9, 2020: A medical worker gives a volunteer a trial vaccine against ... [+] COVID-19 at Moscow's N62 Outpatient Clinic in a post-registration phase of testing. Sergei Bobylev/TASS (Photo by Sergei Bobylev\TASS via... |
| May 7, 2020 | Platforms scramble as ‘Plandemic’ conspiracy video spreads misinformation like wildfire | A video about the coronavirus featuring a well-known vaccine conspiracist is spreading like wildfire on social media this week, even as platforms talk tough about misinformation in the midst of the pandemic.
In the professionally-produced v... |
| Feb 3, 2020 | Quick retraction of a faulty coronavirus paper was a good moment for science | As fears of the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV continued to spread last Friday, an inflammatory new paper appeared on bioRxiv, a preprint server, where scientists post work that hasn’t been vetted.
Titled “Uncanny similarity of unique inserts ... |
| Sep 30, 2019 | Science publications should use checklists, badges to signal trustworthiness | Most of us rely on vetted experts, brand names, seals of approval, and other signals of trust to help us decide on matters ranging from how to treat a dental abscess to which automobile is most fuel efficient. The resources needed to distin... |
| Sep 16, 2019 | Lasker Award recipient had retracted some of his work — a sign of strength, not sloppiness | Axel Ullrich, who directs the department of molecular biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, shared a stake in this year’s $250,000 Lasker Award for his work on Herceptin, a treatment for breast cancer. Ullrich’s Lasker-DeBake... |
| Aug 5, 2019 | Is the Threat of ‘Fake Science’ Real? | In the early 1980s, Soviet intelligence began Operation Infektion—a campaign to erode trust in the U.S. government by orchestrating a series of scientific papers and news articles arguing that the U.S. government created the HIV/AIDS virus.... |
| Jan 28, 2019 | Lack of transparency in healthcare startups risks another Theranos implosion | Are more Theranos -style scandals looming for investors in healthcare startups?
A team of researchers associated with the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford thinks so. They’ve published a paper warning investors in life sciences st... |
| Dec 12, 2018 | School Boots Professor Off Campus After He Exposes Its Complicity In Predatory Publishing Schemes | Predatory publishing — the pay-for-play practice that allows anyone to have their research published as soon as the check clears — may end up costing a professor his job. Derek Pyne, associate professor of economics at British Columbia’s Th... |
| Dec 11, 2018 | Amid ethics outcry, should journals publish the ‘CRISPR babies’ paper? | Like researchers everywhere, He Jiankui — the scientist in China who claims to have used CRISPR to edit embryos to create babies protected from HIV — is eager to publish scientific papers. It is, after all, a publish-or-perish world — altho... |
| Nov 21, 2018 | To catch misconduct, journals are hiring research integrity czars | As a child, Jana Christopher would spend hours trying to discern patterns in the wallpaper and on the floor of her bedroom. So perhaps it was destiny that as an adult she would spend hours doing much the same thing — only now she stares at ... |
| Oct 16, 2018 | UCSF settles sexual harassment suit involving star researcher | The University of California, San Francisco, has agreed to pay a former postdoc $150,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit involving a prominent tobacco researcher on its faculty.
In the settlement, dated last month, Stanton Glantz, dir... |
| Oct 14, 2018 | Harvard and the Brigham call for more than 30 retractions of cardiac stem cell research | Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have recommended that 31 papers from a former lab director be retracted from medical journals.
The papers from the lab of Dr. Piero Anversa, who studied cardiac stem cells, “included f... |
| Sep 28, 2018 | Cochrane ousted researcher over improper use of letterhead, board co-chair says | A physician and researcher recently kicked out of one of the world’s most authoritative medical research bodies repeatedly misused official letterhead to espouse personal views, the co-chair of the organization’s governing board told STAT a... |
| Sep 24, 2018 | Cornell finds food researcher Brian Wansink guilty of academic misconduct | Wansink’s research into food psychology and consumer behaviour and the work done by his team at the research lab he founded in 1997, the Cornell Food and Brand lab, has been highly publicised over the years, reported in many media outlets i... |
| Sep 16, 2018 | Turmoil erupts over expulsion of member from leading evidence-based medicine group | One of the medical world’s most respected expert bodies is in turmoil as its annual meeting gets underway in Edinburgh, Scotland, after its governing board voted to expel a member.
The Cochrane Collaboration, which reviews the scientific li... |
| Aug 24, 2018 | Dartmouth misconduct case highlights the mistreatment of junior scientists | The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice probably isn’t the most collegial of places these days. That’s because Dartmouth officials agreed with Samir Soneji, an associate professor at the New Hampshire university, tha... |
| Aug 20, 2018 | Prominent health policy researcher plagiarized colleagues’ work, Dartmouth investigation finds | A Dartmouth College investigation has concluded that Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, one of the country’s most prominent health care policy scholars, committed research misconduct in connection with a paper published in a top medical journal.
Welch p... |
| Nov 20, 2017 | The Sad Legacy Of Copyright: Locking Up Scientific Knowledge And Impeding Progress | We’ve repeated this over and over again, but the Constitutional rationale for copyright is “to promote the progress of science” (in case you’re wondering about the “useful arts” part that comes after it, that was for patents, as “useful art... |
| Oct 31, 2017 | AstraZeneca gets an early green light on BTK blockbuster hopeful Calquence | Image: Pascal Soriot AP Images
AstraZeneca $AZN has received an early OK from regulators to sell its cancer drug acalabrutinib, now under the brand name Calquence.
The BTK inhibitor — being set up as a rival to Imbruvi... |
| Oct 6, 2017 | AstraZeneca’s next big cancer drug linked to falsified preclinical data; Harmony raises $270M, nabs development rights to narcolepsy drug | Vasant Narasimhan, Novartis
→ Retraction Watch reports that one piece of the preclinical puzzle for the BTK drug acalabrutinib was fabricated by a researcher at Acerta. This case involved a mouse model of pancreatic ... |
| Jun 23, 2017 | Chinese courts call for death penalty for researchers who commit fraud | An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth — a life for a lab book?
In the past few months, China has announced two new crackdowns on research misconduct — one of which could lead to executions for scientists who doctor their data.
Scientists h... |
| Jun 23, 2017 | New ethical lapses alleged in controversial India cervical cancer screening trial | A long-debated study aimed at validating a low-cost way to screen for cervical cancer in India has come under fire again, based on new evidence of ethical lapses contained in documents obtained through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act.
C... |
| Jun 1, 2017 | A shrimp study’s jumbo error — and what other researchers can learn | AMSTERDAM — “Bring it.”
That was Richard Mann’s response, back in 2012, when a friend told him to brace himself for some news.
Mann, then a researcher at Uppsala University in Sweden, had recently published a paper based on video footage of... |
| May 23, 2017 | This company admitted failure — and the stock market rewarded it | Good guys finish last, the saying goes. But here’s a story that should offer hope to those who believe that transparency and corporate success can mix.
Back in 2009, scientists working for a Swedish biotech firm called WntResearch published... |
| May 18, 2017 | Diluted chemicals, mislabeled cells: Questionable lab supplies scupper too many research findings | If you come around these parts often, you’re likely familiar with the idea of fake data. You might even recall fake peer review. But fake laboratory supplies?
Unfortunately, that’s also a thing. From mislabeled antibodies to watered-down ca... |
| May 5, 2017 | Introducing the Doing the Right Thing award, honoring those who clean up the scientific literature | This column frequently takes publishers and journals to task for handling retractions with slippery fingers and mealy mouths. Today, however, we come not to bury a publisher, but to praise one, to misquote the Bard.
That’s because the 77-ye... |
| Apr 28, 2017 | Phony peer review: The more we look, the more we find | An unknown number of published studies have a hidden flaw: The “peers” who supposedly vouched for their publication are phonies.
And the closer publishers look, it seems, the more rotten studies they find.
Now, in the biggest haul to date, ... |
| Apr 21, 2017 | ‘A shining example of scientific integrity’ holds some lessons for all of us | Call it the publishing version of “repeal and replace”: the Journal of the American Medical Association this week retracted and then republished a study with significant clinical implications — showing in the process how journals and resear... |
| Apr 13, 2017 | Scientists are getting proactive about self-corrections | Journals pin corrections on scientific articles for all sorts of reasons — from the mundane, like minor typos and wording changes, to the significant, such as errors that warrant a detailed explanation.
But the process for correcting a publ... |
| Mar 16, 2017 | Honest mistakes by young scientists shouldn’t doom their careers | The years spent as a grad student and postdoc are among the most trying times for any scientist. The pressure to publish is intense, as young researchers vie for the few jobs at the heads of academic labs.
Those high stakes and the pressure... |
| Feb 17, 2017 | Scientists, fishing for significance, get a meager catch | If you cast a wide enough net, you’ll find what looks like a prize-winning fish. But you’ll also catch a lot of seaweed, plastic debris, and maybe even a dolphin you didn’t mean to bring in.
Such is the dilemma of interpreting scientific re... |
| Jan 27, 2017 | A famed journal blacklist is dead. Long live a blacklist! | The community of science watchdogs has lost an important voice with the sudden and mysterious takedown of a website devoted to outing unscrupulous publishers.
The site, Scholarly OA (for “open access”), listed more than 1,000 so-called pred... |
| Jan 27, 2017 | 2012 Research Paper Linking Video Games And Violence Finally Retracted Over Massaged Data Accusation | For all of the studies that often appear almost fervent in their attempts to find any thread of a link between violent video games and real life tendencies to violence, one of the standouts in the crowd has been Brad Bushman. Bushman last g... |
| Jan 22, 2017 | Study Claiming Video Games Make Players Better Real-Life Shooters Gets Shot Down | Back in 2012 an academic study in the Communications Research journal lent some credibility to the idea that playing a lot of first-person shooters effectively trained you to use firearms in real life. Now, though, that study's been retract... |
| Jan 16, 2017 | How to spot dodgy science in minutes | I haven’t got time for science, or at least not all of it. I cannot read 9000 astrophysics papers every year. No way.
And I have little patience for bad science, which gets more media attention than it deserves.
Even the bad science is over... |
| Dec 20, 2016 | DMCA Process Abused To Nuke Post About Researcher Who Faked Data On Federally-Funded Study | Wonderful. It’s another one of those anomalies that happens all the time: copyright as censor. |
| Dec 12, 2016 | ‘Dear plagiarist’: A scientist calls out his double-crosser | It’s a researcher’s worst nightmare: Pour five years, and at least 4,000 hours, of sweat and tears into a study, only to have the work stolen from you — by someone who was entrusted to confidentially review the manuscript.
But unlike many s... |
| Dec 9, 2016 | Why a First Amendment win is good for science | Some of Donald Trump’s recent comments have bloodied the nose of the First Amendment, but here, at least, is a glimmer of good news: Judges in a Michigan defamation case this week ruled that anonymous scientific critiques are a protected fo... |
| Dec 1, 2016 | The real plague affecting science? It isn’t fraud | If a burst pipe in your house is flooding your basement, you’re probably going to be more worried about that than the couple termites you previously spotted. But multiply those termites times a thousand and suddenly the bigger threat to you... |
| Nov 25, 2016 | For young scientists, a supervisor’s fraud can derail a career | In the hierarchy of academic science, grad students and postdocs often get a raw deal — long hours, little pay, and short-term contracts. But the arrangement can be made even worse by unscrupulous supervisors who, in cases of fraud, all too... |
| Nov 11, 2016 | Tougher action needed in the fight against scientific fraud | By Marilyn McMahon, Deakin University
What is there to stop someone publishing scientific research that is based on no actual research or uses fake evidence to support their claims?
If the risk to reputation and all that follows isn’t enoug... |
| Oct 17, 2016 | Pfizer retractions point to the need for better research oversight | “These retractions appear to be intentional image duplication, but there’s an entire spectrum of flawed research published in journals at every tier,” Begley said in an interview last week.
The New York company’s actions come in response to... |
| Sep 22, 2016 | FDA commissioner calls for Sarepta drug study to be retracted | In an unusual development, US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf indicated that a study about a newly approved Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug was “misleading” and should be retracted.
The drug, which was developed... |
| Sep 19, 2016 | Science’s arbiter of disputes, the meta-analysis, is falling prey to bias | Science headlines can be notoriously flip-floppy: One week something causes cancer, another week it protects against it. A cholesterol drug works. Oops, no it doesn’t. Well, maybe it does, a bit.
To help prevent whiplash, researchers develo... |
| Aug 26, 2016 | We should reward peer reviewers. But how? | Peer review is a thankless task. Almost entirely uncompensated and usually anonymous, it’s considered a professional obligation, a good for science in general. So scientists go along, accepting assignments from editors and effectively killi... |
| Aug 12, 2016 | Controversy swirls around using virtual reality to diagnose pedophilia | A handful of scientists are testing a controversial practice of using virtual reality to diagnose pedophilia in men in hopes of helping them manage their sexual desires before they act on them.
Pedophilia, a psychiatric disorder, affects up... |
| Jul 21, 2016 | Thousands of studies used the wrong cells, and journals are doing nothing | If your house is infested with termites, passing it off as pest-free to buyers is a quick way to get hit with a lawsuit. But science journals face no such repercussions for marketing some decidedly rotten studies as 100 percent sound.
The p... |
| Jul 1, 2016 | Are science papers becoming too complex? | Science is hard. Anyone who disagrees should take themselves to a desert island and try to build a gene sequencer from scratch.
But is there a difference between inherent difficulty and superfluous complexity?
A new analysis in the journal ... |
| Jun 24, 2016 | Do scientific fraudsters deserve a second chance? | Late last year a scientist at the University of Manchester received a grant from the venerable Cancer Research UK to study cancer immunology. Normally, that news would have raised cheers. Instead, it raised eyebrows: “Are donors/patients ok... |
| May 18, 2016 | Cache Of 70,000 Leaked OkCupid Profiles Taken Down Following Copyright Notice | Aaron Mamiit, Tech Times 18 May 2016, 08:05 am
Last week, a team of Danish researchers intentionally leaked information of 70,000 profiles on online dating website OkCupid.
The researchers used automated software to scrape data from the pro... |
| Apr 29, 2016 | Seeing double: Duplicated images plague research papers | Four in 100 doesn’t seem like a big number, and in many instances it isn’t very impressive. After all, if Steph Curry sank only 4 percent of his three-pointers, the Golden State Warriors wouldn’t have set a record this year for most wins in... |
| Apr 21, 2016 | Want a favorable peer review? Buy one | What do Henry Kissinger and Martin Scorsese have in common? Fun fact: Both evidently review scientific manuscripts for money.
OK, maybe that’s not quite true. In fact, it’s not at all true. But headshots of both men appear in the bios of tw... |
| Apr 5, 2016 | Amid public feuds, a venerated medical journal finds itself under attack | The New England Journal of Medicine is arguably the best-known and most venerated medical journal in the world. Studies featured in its pages are cited more often, on average, than those of any of its peers. And the careers of young researc... |
| Mar 29, 2016 | NFL, take note: Calls for retraction are usually a bad idea | The National Football League, speaking (how else?) through its lawyers, is demanding that the New York Times retract an article published last week that revealed the league had failed to report all concussion cases, despite claiming their d... |
| Mar 25, 2016 | Why science would benefit from being self-refereed | As anyone who has ever played pickup basketball knows, allowing players to call fouls on themselves works pretty well to keep the court clean. So what about in science?
That approach, in essence, is what Daniele Fanelli is calling for as a ... |
| Mar 21, 2016 | Clinical trial coordinator debarred by FDA for, um, crappy behavior | Specifically, between January and October 2008, Mr. McQuerry created fifteen to twenty fictional patients, whom he claimed were participants in the clinical trial. Mr. McQuerry falsified signatures of those patients on consent forms and fal... |
| Feb 10, 2016 | Press releases stink. Here’s why that matters | Just before Thanksgiving, the nonprofit Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in Phoenix issued a press release trumpeting a “significant breakthrough” in the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme, a rare but deadly type of tumor ... |
| Feb 3, 2016 | Why is it so damn hard to get a paper retracted? | In 2014, David Allison noticed something wonky with a paper in the journal Childhood Obesity. The article purported to find that children who regularly ate kids’ meals with toys inside — we won’t name them, but an example might rhyme with “... |
| Dec 23, 2015 | To keep science honest, study data must be shared | Santa, if you’re reading this: James Coyne has a simple request for Christmas.
Coyne, professor of health psychology at University Medical Center Groningen, in the Netherlands, would like to see the data from a controversial study about chr... |
| Dec 15, 2015 | Governments routinely cover up scientific misdeeds. Let’s end that | If you read that researchers were faking X-rays, retinal scans, and lab tests in their work, you might think — or hope — that it was something out of science fiction. But as Charles Seife reported in a JAMA Internal Medicine paper earlier t... |
| Dec 3, 2015 | Morning Read: U.S. healthcare spending hits $3 trillion, military flagged Theranos back in 2012 | LIFE SCIENCES
Abcodia’s ROCA Test for early detection of ovarian cancer is now available in five U.S. states. — PR Newswire
GHO Capital has acquired British drug development services company Quotient Clinical. — PE Hub
Velicept Therapeutics... |
| Dec 3, 2015 | Episode 3: Should we believe published scientific research? | Isaac Newton famously said that “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” It’s a crucial point. Scientists discover new things by building on facts established by those who came before.
But what if the science ... |
| Dec 2, 2015 | Morning Read: The CRISPR bioethical debate rolls on | — Reuters
LIFE SCIENCES
Kesios Therapeutics has raised $28.5 million to develop its multiple myeloma treatment. – Business Wire
A major correction has been posted for an update to international guidelines on reporting outcomes of people rec... |
| Nov 16, 2015 | Scientist Bans Use Of His Software By 'Immigrant-Friendly' Countries, So Journal Retracts Paper About His Software | Retractions of scientific papers are by their nature quite dramatic — the decision to withdraw recognition in this very public way is never taken lightly, especially given all the work that goes into writing a paper. But the specialist site... |
| Nov 7, 2015 | We’ll sniff out scientific misconduct | Every day, thousands of scientific papers are published worldwide, written by dedicated researchers eager to advance knowledge. But a shocking number are not credible — more than half, by many estimates. They’re biased, undercut by flawed m... |
| Aug 24, 2015 | Large-Scale Peer-Review Fraud Leads To Retraction Of 64 Scientific Papers | Techdirt has written numerous articles about an important move in academic publishing towards open access. By shifting the funding of production costs from the readers to the researchers’ institutions it is possible to provide free online a... |
| Jul 7, 2015 | JAMA admits numerous errors in report on healthcare data breaches | The research letter was a review of 949 breaches of protected health information, as defined by HIPAA, in the U.S. between 2010 and 2013. The breaches affected the records of 29 million patients, not the 29.1 million originally mentioned in... |
| Jan 21, 2015 | How Climate Change Denial Still Gets Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals | Meet one of the world's leading climate change skeptics.
Though he is not a scientist, Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brentley, is a prolific and vocal opponent of mainstream climatology. Once a Special Adviser to Margaret ... |
| Dec 9, 2014 | Facebook emotional manipulation study is top scientific paper of 2014 — barely | Only Facebook’s ill-advised intentional manipulation of users’ emotions could top the academic excitement generated in 2014 by an otherwise dry study that happened to catch fire thanks to a very snarky author comment.
The Facebook paper, Ex... |
