@cathleenogrady.bwww.science covers the rise of shoddy public health papers for @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

In an extraordinary joint statement, 6 former U.S. Surgeons General warn: RFK Jr. is "endangering the health of the nation.” We’ve previously called for RFK Jr.’s resignation, this moment confirms why. Patient health must come before politics. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The myth of meritocracy inspires the implicit assumption that someone’s degree of success reflects their level of competence and skill. I think that this is one of the most toxic myths of our time.

Lancet: Offline: Those one should not forgive (Makary and Bhattacharya) by Richard Horton bit.ly/3IPC0PD

Read our exclusive interview by @maxkozlov.bsky.social with the ex-CDC director - Susan Monarez - In which she talks about the importance of the job and the reasons why she was fired 🧪 #CDC #MedSky @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

President Trump's aid cuts are disproportionately hitting women and girls: forcing them to drop out of school or leading them to die in childbirth or perish from cervical cancer, or to marry as young teens. That's what I found in the field: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...

50+ scientific societies sign letter objecting to Aug 7 Trump executive order. Letter urges Congress to take action to safeguard integrity of independent peer-review system. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

thank you - great ressource for a review

Where is the benefit for the authors? www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

„it tended to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity“

Remembering Drummond Rennie—Champion of Integrity in Science and Scientific Publication jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Ghostwriters frame material and framing matters. Even in science. A great write up on Nick Hopwood’s research into the history of Edwards and Steptoe’s book A Matter of Life. #histmed #histsci

Something that I always suspected - a scientific result was always judged by institution and not by merits.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

IMHO a lot of aggregated pseudo information including „sentiments“ of individuals although science is a collaborative enterprise. And well, very basic errors.

Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible” In Q&A, Drew Weissman says vast literature shows Covid shots are safe, refutes claims from Retsef Levi www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...

I've been reporting in East Africa on the impact of President Trump's USAID cuts, and I find that not only are children dying in large numbers but the pace is accelerating as stockpiles run out and people grow weaker. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

www.nature.com/articles/d41... Audience

the fear is now passed to us which journal to trust

Die Folgen des KI-Hypes für den Datenschutz sind schwer absehbar. Im Fall von Metas KI-Training zögern Aufsichtsbehörden, das Oberlandesgericht Köln gab dem Konzern sogar – fürs Erste – grünes Licht. Jura-Professorin Paulina Jo Pesch zeigt die Schwächen des Urteils auf.

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Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

🚀 The inaugural issue of REACH (Science Integrity Alliance) is out! 📖 Features include: A spotlight on the 9th WCRI (p. 26–27) An interview on the Lancet–WCRI Commission on Research Integrity (p. 46–49) @machadolac.bsky.social @sci-integrity.com #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

A paper that combines #peerreview & cheese... what could be better? Answer: writing said paper with @abalkina.bsky.social @image-integrity.bsky.social & Marie Souliere. Read on to learn how the Swiss Cheese Model could help peer review & #researchintegrity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

When pediatricians revolt: Rejecting CDC guidelines for scientific integrity #ResearchIntegrity #CDC #Pediatricians #WCRI2026 #WCRI thehill.com/opinion/heal...

AI is based on previous research and can not anticipate future research success www.nature.com/articles/d41...

When I have to randomly put a bunch of dots on a map, I too copy paste clusters and rotate them around to make it look like they are actually different

There is a recent 7fold increase of clinical trials in Asia pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC.... But are they all trustworthy? Here are some tools that can help reviewers.

🚀 We’re excited to share the first edition of the Posit AI Newsletter! Curated by Posit’s Sara Altman and Simon Couch, this biweekly newsletter keeps you up to speed with what’s happening in the AI world, both at Posit and beyond. 📫 Read the first issue: posit.co/blog/2025-08...

A funny proposal - reviewer index ρ journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/c... via @retractionwatch.com newsletter 🧪

The difference to RSQLite? „DuckDB is optimized for queries that apply aggregate calculations across large numbers of rows, whereas SQLite is optimized for fast scanning and lookup for individual rows of data.“ marclamberti.com/blog/duckdb-...

„At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, eight of 3,387 women athletes had positive test results for a Y chromosome. Of these, seven were resistant to testosterone.“

Scientists have mapped the entire connectome of a 3-day-old marine worm larva (Platynereis dumerilii), including over 9,000 cells and 200+ neuronal types. This resource can help us understand how nervous systems evolved and coordinate whole-body movement. buff.ly/IPxFCHs

BREAKING: Attorneys for Susan Monarez, the ousted CDC director, say she was targeted for "protecting the public over serving a political agenda."

“I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.” That’s from the resignation of CDC’s Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social (on X) 🧪

The never ending pain of Python package „wars“ www.r-bloggers.com/2025/08/pyth...

Furchtbare Bilder: Es wirkt wie ein „double tap“-Angriff auf eine Klinik, wobei nach dem ersten Schlag der zweite Angriff herbeigeeilte Rettungskräfte und Journalisten trifft. Welchem legitimen militärischen Ziel soll so etwas dienen? Wie soll man das alles noch verstehen?

So if a human being is being declared as brain dead by whatever assessment by whatever expert, s/he can be really used as experimental work bench?

Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... #publishers #retractions

Does cutting funding for health disparities research save money? Health disparities affect people facing barriers to health due to their race/ethnicity; SES; gender; or other traits linked to discrimination. COVID-19 caused more deaths in the poor+ Blacks+ Latinos... @atscommunity.bsky.social

The EPA has quietly removed its updated 2025 Scientific Integrity Policy, rolling the agency back to its 2012 policy and erasing more than a decade of lessons learned about how to protect science from political interference. open.substack.com/pub/scilight...

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An extensive list of papers describing scientific misconduct philarchive.org/archive/SOCT...

„Hypotheses are … the outputs of research rather than the inputs. Discovery begins not with ideation but with statistical anomalies…. Knowledge is no longer derived from what has been observed but from what could be observed, simulated, or inferred.“ www.sheridan.com/journals-on-...

1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research. This is wrong. And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.