The week at Retraction Watch featured a cancer researcher retracting 19 studies at once from a single journal, and the story of how a 7-year-old came to publish a paper. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Why is so much research dodgy? Alex Jones and Andrew Kemp blame the UK’s Research Excellence Framework. (The Guardian) “Here is … Continue reading Weekend reads: Why so much research is dodgy; why scientists should shun journals; ethical grey zones