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
Category: weekend reads
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:
Weekend reads: Speed kills in publishing too; studying blank pages; apologies for the Rosetta Shirt
Highlights at Retraction Watch this week included a case of overly honest referencing and the story of how a medical resident flagged up a pseudoscientific study. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Speed kills in publishing too; studying blank pages; apologies for the Rosetta Shirt
Weekend reads: Scientists behaving badly; sexual harassment at Yale; help us find Retraction Watch bugs
First, a housekeeping note: We migrated web hosts this week, and while the move seems to have gone mostly smoothly, we’ve noticed a few issues: Comments aren’t threaded (even though we have them set up to be), categories aren’t properly nesting, and a small percentage of comments didn’t transfer over with the rest, the way they should have. We’re working on getting this resolved, and looking into whether we can (or should) restore upvoting and downvoting on comments, so please let us know of any other issues you see, and thanks as always for your patience.
Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Scientists behaving badly; sexual harassment at Yale; help us find Retraction Watch bugs
Weekend reads: “Academic science isn’t sexist;” buying your way into university rankings
The week at Retraction Watch began with news of a lawsuit against PubPeer commenters. Here’s what was happening elsewhere:Weekend reads: Making research true; peer review in Shakespeare; a 79-year-old postdoc
The week at Retraction Watch began with the retraction of a paper touted by Dr. Oz. Here’s what was happening elsewhere:
Weekend reads: “Too good to be true” results; the paper as an “artificial landmark”
The week at Retraction Watch kicked off with news of the European Science Foundation threatening to sue a scientist for calling a review process “flawed.” Here’s what was happening elsewhere:
Continue reading Weekend reads: “Too good to be true” results; the paper as an “artificial landmark”
Weekend reads: Senator loses degree for plagiarism; bad colitis poetry; fraud on the big screen
The week at Retraction Watch featured papers by a fake author with a brilliant if profane name, and the unmasking of fraudster Diederik Stapel as a sock puppet. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Senator loses degree for plagiarism; bad colitis poetry; fraud on the big screen