We know there are a lot of causes that matter to you, but since you’re reading this, we may be one of them. So we’d like to ask for your support.
On this Giving Tuesday, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to The Center For Scientific Integrity, the 501(c)3 parent organization of Retraction Watch. Any amount helps. Your donation will help us shine a spotlight on scientific misconduct, and on the process — too often messy and slow — of correcting the scholarly record.
Here’s what your donations will continue to help make possible:
- Our database of retractions — up to more than 20,000 entries and counting — which powers our partnership with Zotero that automaticaly alerts users to retractions in their database
- Our efforts to obtain and report on institutional investigations of misconduct
- Our development of stories for other outlets
- Our scholarly efforts
- Our daily stories (we’ve published nearly 5,000 posts)
- Our daily email
All of this costs money to produce. There is always more to do — more retractions to find and categorize, more public records requests to file, more documents to pore over.
We’re grateful to the organizations that have generously supported our staff and reporting efforts, such as the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, and the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Trust. But those grants have come to an end, and we now rely on earned revenue — for example, honoraria and freelance writing fees — as well as individual donations.
Of course, if you don’t have the means to support our work financially, we always benefit from story tips, comments that add context and extra information to a post, and other feedback. Together, we can improve the process of self-correction.
For more on how we make use of those funds, we have posted all of our tax returns here. For nearly two years, neither of our co-founders Adam Marcus or Ivan Oransky has taken a salary, and that will continue as long as necessary to ensure our sustainability.
Ready to help? Donate through PayPal, Facebook (which is matching some donations), or Crowdrise. If you’d rather mail a check, please make it out to The Center For Scientific Integrity and send it to 121 W. 36th St., Suite 209, New York, NY 10018.
And thank you.