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Weekend reads: 100 fake professors; study on police killings retracted; false data won’t scuttle company buyout

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Weekend reads: Stolen identity and peer review; key heart data concealed; psychology’s ‘collective self-deception’

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Weekend reads: Leading stem cell researcher’s work under scrutiny; faked drug trial data; troubling China practice snares publisher

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Political science prof up to five retractions after she “carelessly uses parts of diverse sources”

A professor of political science at the University of Porto in Portugal has had at least five papers retracted for plagiarism. Or, as one journal put it, Teresa Cierco “carelessly uses parts of diverse sources.”  Cierco’s areas of research include Kosovo, Macedonia, and Timor-Leste. The retractions, for papers published in 2013 and 2014, began in … Continue reading Political science prof up to five retractions after she “carelessly uses parts of diverse sources”

Weekend reads: Double-dipping with industry funding; a bully is rehired; organized crime scholar charged with money laundering

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Weekend reads: Falsified authorship; allegations about more than 200 papers; honoring an exploitative scientist

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Weekend reads: Grad student who alleged discrimination dismissed; academics who play dumb; when papers cite predatory works

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Weekend reads: Scientist loses job after 30 retractions; breast cancer researcher committed misconduct; “two crashes” at Duke

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Author protests as Elsevier retracts nine papers for fake peer review

An agriculture researcher has lost nine papers from Elsevier journals for “illegitimate reviewer reports.” The researcher, Christos Damalas, is, well, irked. The journals included Chemosphere, Crop Protection, Land Use Policy, and Science of the Total Environment, and the papers were all published in 2017 and 2018, with Damalas as corresponding author and co-authors from Iran … Continue reading Author protests as Elsevier retracts nine papers for fake peer review

Weekend reads: A CRISPR retraction; questions about football concussion data; an ethicist who has led to more than 20 retractions

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