This week at Retraction Watch featured a hotly debated guest post from Leonid Schneider and two ORI findings. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Potti trial to begin; fraudster post-doc fired; how to avoid predatory journals
Category: weekend reads
Weekend reads: Vaccine research fraudster to plead guilty; nonsense authors publish another paper
This week at Retraction Watch witnessed the fall of a “golden boy” and a “NASA Patriot Boy.” Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Vaccine research fraudster to plead guilty; nonsense authors publish another paper
Weekend reads: Silenced Anil Potti whistleblower revealed; how to identify scientific crackpots
The first full week of 2015 featured a few drug company-related retractions. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Silenced Anil Potti whistleblower revealed; how to identify scientific crackpots
Weekend reads: Sensationalism in science journalism and PR; Beall’s predatory publisher list grows
Happy New Year! This week, we took a look back at 2014. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Sensationalism in science journalism and PR; Beall’s predatory publisher list grows
Weekend reads: “Plagiarism is for losers;” the retraction war; a step back for science in 2014
Welcome to our last Weekend Reads of 2014. This week featured our second annual Top 10 Retractions list. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: “Plagiarism is for losers;” the retraction war; a step back for science in 2014
Weekend reads: Authorship for sale, STAP stem cell scandal finally over?
This was a week of stem cell retractions, fake peer reviews, legal threats, and we announced that we’ve been awarded a $400,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Here’s what was happening elsewhere:Continue reading Weekend reads: Authorship for sale, STAP stem cell scandal finally over?
Weekend reads: Maggie Simpson publishes a paper, why correcting the scientific record is hard
On Sunday, tune in to WUSA at 8:30 a.m. Eastern in Washington, DC, or online starting at 9 to see Ivan on BioCenturyTV. (He might just have an exciting announcement to make.) Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Maggie Simpson publishes a paper, why correcting the scientific record is hard
Weekend reads: Death of a scientist; Science, the Lake Wobegon of experiments
News elsewhere about scientific integrity, publishing, and related issues abounded this week: Continue reading Weekend reads: Death of a scientist; Science, the Lake Wobegon of experiments
Weekend reads: Former vice chancellor sent to jail for plagiarism; peer reviewers getting tired
This week, we published a feature in Nature on how some researchers are gaming peer review systems to review their own papers. Here’s what was happening elsewhere:
Weekend reads: Novartis fires scientist for faking data; journal accepts F-bomb-laden spam paper
The week at Retraction Watch began with a case of a South Korean engineer who had to retract ten studies at once. Here’s what was happening elsewhere, along with an update on a story we covered a few days ago: