Publishers love their embargoes, whether they’re of papers that aren’t open access yet, or are available to the media before they’re published. Apparently, however, they also break embargoes, just like the journalists they sometimes sanction for … Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Weekend reads: Journal editor fired for homophobic comments; “three-parent baby� paper mega-correction; the Bette Midler journal club
Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance. The week at… Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Semi-automated fact-checking for scientific papers? Here’s one method.
Wouldn’t it be terrific if manuscripts and published papers could be checked automatically for errors? That was the premise behind an algorithmic approach we wrote about last week, and today we bring you a Q&A with Jennifer Byrne, the last au… Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Journal retracts creationist paper “because it was published in error�
It’s become a sort of Retraction Watch Mad Libs: Author writes a paper that is so far, far, out of the mainstream. Maybe it argues that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS. Or that vaccines cause autism. Truth squads swarm over the paper, taking to blogs and Tw… Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Plagiarism prompts retraction of 25-year-old article by prominent priest
Retraction Watch readers may have heard about Fr. Thomas Rosica, a priest who recently apologized for plagiarism and resigned from the board of a college. The case, which involved Rosica’s speeches and popular columns, prompted at least two observers… Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Weekend reads: The fake sex doctor and his bizarre research; prof alleged to have stolen student’s work; worst scientific scandal of all time?
Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance. The week at… Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Weekend reads: Conflict of interest debate roils on; fake peer review scams; amateur hour at journals
Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance. The week at Re… Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Wash U scientist admits to research misconduct, resigns post
A Washington University researcher has admitted to committing research misconduct in research involving eight U.S. government grants, according to a Federal watchdog, and resigned his position, according to the university. Srikanth Santhanam, a staff s… Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Journals are failing to address duplication in the literature, says a new study
How seriously are journals taking duplicated work that they publish? That was the question Mario Malički and colleagues set out to answer six years ago. And last month, they published their findings in Biochemia Medica. The upshot? Journals have a lot … Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Energy researcher up to 18 retractions
A researcher in Malaysia is up to 18 retractions, for faked peer review and a host of other sins. We first wrote about Shahaboddin Shamshirband, of the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, in early 2017, because Elsevier had pulled, or planned to pull… Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Journal retracts paper by controversial Australian journalist
The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) has retracted a 2003 paper that resulted from the PhD thesis of Maryanne Demasi, an Australian journalist whose reporting on statins and the risks of cancer from cell phones has been a lightning rod. The move, … Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Weekend reads: Why more papers should be retracted; predictors of “grateful” acknowledgements; multi-million dollar settlement for fake rankings data
Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance. The week at Re… Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: The Year In Retractions, 2018: What 18,000+ retractions (and counting) told us
Another year in the books — or journals — already? 2018 was another productive year for Retraction Watch. Topping our own leaderboard of achievements was the launch of our database of retractions, along with an analysis published in Scienc… Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Former UMich postdoc earns five-year ban on Federal funding, after admitting to misconduct and then lying
A former postdoc at the University of Michigan admitted to research misconduct, but lied about how extensive it was, according to a new finding by the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI). The ORI doesn’t describe Venkata Sudheer Kumar Ramadug… Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: The Top 10 Retractions of 2018: From Anversa to Wansink, with a Kardashian along the way
2018 was a busy year in retractions. (OK, they’ve all been busy for a while.) In what has become an annual tradition, our friends at The Scientist asked us to round up what we thought were the biggest retractions of the last 12 months. Head on ov… Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Cornell psychology researcher sees “A model for ethical reasoning” retracted
A Cornell researcher whose work came under scrutiny earlier this year for text recycling has had a third paper retracted. The latest retraction for Robert Sternberg — whose work was the subject of allegations by Brendan O’Connor and Nick B… Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Alfredo Fusco, facing misconduct charges in Italy, up to 21 retractions
Alfredo Fusco, a researcher in Italy who has faced criminal charges for research misconduct for more than five years, has had six more papers retracted, for a total of 21. The latest six retractions are all from Cancer Research. An example, for “… Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Weekend reads: How one scientist polluted the literature; a dog earns an authorship; poisoning in the lab
Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance. The week at Re… Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: “Unusual aspects” of a figure — aka a cartoon of Trump’s face in baboon feces — disappear from a journal
“In the original version of this Article, there were unusual aspects to the ‘Extract fecal DNA’ illustration in figure 1. These features have been removed.” With those 25 words, “one of the greatest scientific Easter eggs in a long ti… Continue reading →
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Which kind of peer review is best for catching fraud?
Is peer review a good way to weed out problematic papers? And if it is, which kinds of peer review? In a new paper in Scientometrics, Willem Halffman, of Radboud University, and Serge Horbach, of Radboud University and Leiden University, used our datab… Continue reading →
