Real-world politics is necessarily strategic. Nonetheless, bowing one’s head and treating Trump with deference normalizes his unacceptable and undignified behaviors www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/w...

"Retraction Watch is to be commended for pushing hard to improve how retractions are recorded, and for creating a relatively clean database of retractions on which further tools and analyses, including those used in Nature’s analysis, can be built."

Congratulations @jabyrnesci.bsky.social on winning the well-deserved David Vaux Research Integrity Fellowship Award. bit.ly/4aVDilW

Following our two investigations in @science.org (science.org/content/arti... & science.org/content/arti...), @SIMATS_Univ in India has had more than 260 papers retracted, @retractionwatch.com's @averyorrall.bsky.social reports retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/a...

The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. @joelving.bsky.social reports

“Their intention was, we’re going to go open access, we need to publish everything,” Casanova said. “I cannot be instructed by a publisher to publish everything.” retractionwatch.com/2025/02/06/e...

Really feels like 1984

A new investigation from The Conversation and @retractionwatch.com sheds light on a troubling phenomenon: Fake research papers are contaminating scientific literature at an alarming rate, with hundreds of thousands of bogus studies circulating.

This is so scary.

Good point, @mariahodges.bsky.social, editors&peer reviewers have an extremely important job! Our piece does mention the many suspect papers T&F has caught. Also, editors who catch these papers are doing their (paid) job, while sleuths are usually working on their own time, so there’s a difference.

This: Zielske combed through all the studies...– some 150 papers... and concluded that “a majority” of them looked fake. Some reported... experimental reagents... that were “just gibberish,”... He contacted several of the journals, ... but received little response. “I just stopped following up.” 💔

A deep investigative journalism report on the troubling path of Alzheimer’s drugs approval. www.levernews.com/the-deadly-s...

The Problematic Paper Screener filters 130 million new and old scholarly papers every week, looking for nine types of clues that a paper might be fake or contain errors: https://buff.ly/40z6cTT (@joelving.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com; @gcabanac.cpesr.fr, IRIT; Cyril Labbé, UGA) #AI

Check out our new deep dive on #papermills: Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research theconversation.com/fake-papers-... @gcabanac.cpesr.fr

Q: Was there ever really a time when America was healthier? A: "No." See www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/h... "'MAHA' obscures a past during which this country’s people ate, smoked & drank things that mostly left them unwell." Plus: "...all the real health disparities that characterize our system..."

Inflating academic output “directly biases the outcomes of ranking systems, compromising their reliability and usefulness” retractionwatch.com/2025/01/10/b...

I'm leaving my role @retractionwatch.com today to devote more time to other projects, but will continue as a contributing editor. Grateful for the 2 terrific years I spent working at this amazing organization on stories holding institutions and researchers to account.

Publishing shoddy commentaries, with lots of self-citation, is a new way for universities in South Asia to manipulate metrics and rankings www.science.org/content/arti...

Careful what you wish for: "In an August editorial, the editors acknowledged some of the increase in submissions the journal had seen “is related to ‘papermill’ type activity.”" retractionwatch.com/2024/12/03/w...

Wiley medical journal retracts dozens of papers for manipulated peer review, with more to come retractionwatch.com/2024/12/03/w...

Crossref suspends company’s membership after Retraction [email protected] report