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"A tour of the mean streets of science was offered in Trinity College Dublin recently by Ivan Oransky, the award-winning medical journalist and keen observer of misdeeds in science."

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An author likens a drawn-out peer review process to filibustering.

Barislav Momčilović thinks that iodine status is — after iron deficiency — the “main public health” issue in the world today. So when he figured out what he believed was the best way to…
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It’s refreshing to see a journal resolve the concerns and provide readers with a relatively thorough explanation.

Last year, Journal of Cell Science added notices to four papers after a reader contacted the editors with some concerns about issues with the figures. Now, it’s replacing the previous editorial not…
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A child psychiatrist enrolled her own children in a trial that went wrong.

Here’s a story that shows the lengths a public university — The University of Illinois at Chicago — went to block the release of information about a child psychiatry trial gone wrong, a…
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Is open peer review the future?

Is open peer review the future? The EMBO Journal has offered it since 2009. eLife offers it. They’re not alone, although they’re still in the minority (a fact Irene Hames wishes would c…
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We believe, as did Justice Louis Brandeis, that sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Fakery. Ignored whistleblowers. Sabotage. Subterfuge. Reading reports of institutional investigations into allegations of misconduct can sometimes feel like reading a spy novel about science. And w…
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Another bumper crop. And: Can you help support our work?

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…
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Yes, you read that headline right.

Yes, you read that headline right. In a new preprint posted to bioRxiv, image sleuths scanned hundreds of papers published over a seven-year period in Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB), publishe…
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Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson is “guilty of research misconduct through intentional fabrication, falsification or suppression of basic material and deliberately abandoning good scientific practice in seven of the reviewed articles.”

The University of Gothenburg has requested the dismissal of a researcher who has been found guilty of scientific misconduct in seven articles. The researcher, Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson, is “guil…
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In a recent paper, two researchers look at what happened to nearly 1,000 retracted papers over time, including how long it took to pull them, and when and how often they continue to be cited.

As many readers know, even after a paper’s retracted, it will continue to be cited — often by researchers who don’t realize the findings are problematic. But when, and in what context, do tho…
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For the first time, Clarivate has issued an expression of concern for five journals with a worrisome pattern of citations.

If scientific publishing were the World Cup, twenty scientific journals are being effectively taken out of competition today. And five others are being given a stern first-time warning. Every year,…
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One of the researchers found guilty of misconduct was one of the four whistleblowers on the case.

Former super-star surgeon Paolo Macchiarini is guilty of misconduct, along with six of his co-authors — including one who initially help alert authorities to problems with Macchiarini’s work,…
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Last year, Richard-Lawrence Etienne Barnett, who has lost more than two dozen papers for plagiarism, published a book which appears to have a rather cozy relationship with four of his retracted articles.

A mysterious lit and film critic who built a significant portion of his career using the words of other scholars instead of writing his own appears to be attempting a second act. Last year, Richa…
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Chandra has a history of scientific fraud -- and a libel suit. https://retractionwatch.com/…/by-auth…/ranjit-kumar-chandra/

Former Order of Canada recipient Dr. Ranjit Kumar Chandra — who fleeced OHIP for $2 million — has lost his licence to practise in Ontario.“Dr. Chandra concocted and applied a devi…
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Another bumper crop.

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In March, a journal published a paper about blood sugar levels in newborns that caused an immediate outcry from outside experts, who were concerned it contained a sentence that could be potentially…
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A complicated and at times bizarre story involving not only scientific misconduct, but accusations of mistreatment of lab members, gambling debts, and a failed lawsuit.

In September 2014, an investigation into the work of an award-winning cancer researcher in Illinois concluded that multiple papers had been affected by misconduct. Now, nearly four years later, two…
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