Category: weekend reads

Weekend reads: Where to submit your next paper, NIH proposes “emeritus” award, research dollars wasted

booksThis week at Retraction Watch featured the debut of our new editor, and a unicorn. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Where to submit your next paper, NIH proposes “emeritus” award, research dollars wasted

Weekend reads: Savage peer reviews, cosmology claim bites dust, $50 million diet pill hoax

booksThis week at Retraction Watch featured polar opposites: Two new entries in our “doing the right thing” category, and one in our plagiarism euphemism parade. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: Continue reading Weekend reads: Savage peer reviews, cosmology claim bites dust, $50 million diet pill hoax

Weekend reads: Potti trial to begin; fraudster post-doc fired; how to avoid predatory journals

booksThis 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

Weekend reads: Vaccine research fraudster to plead guilty; nonsense authors publish another paper

booksThis 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

booksThe 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

booksHappy 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

booksWelcome 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?

booksThis 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

booksOn 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

booksNews 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