The New York Times

A Paper That Says Science Should Be Impartial Was Rejected by Major Journals. You Can’t Make This Up.

Is a gay Republican Latino more capable of conducting a physics experiment than a white progressive heterosexual woman? Would they come to different conclusions based on the same data because of their ...
The New York Times

Claim of Microbe That Survives on Arsenic Is Retracted After 15 Years

Science, a top research journal, said there was no evidence of misconduct by researchers whose finding attracted heavy attention and scrutiny in social media’s early days. By Sarah Scoles Sarah Scoles ...
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Retractions, Walkouts Plague Science Journals Eager to Churn Out Research

Signs of trouble are turning up at the biggest scientific journals and the publishers that host them. In December, nearly every member of the editorial board of the pre-eminent Journal of Human ...
The Economist

There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research

IN 2011 BEN MOL, a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Monash University, in Melbourne, came across a retraction notice for a study on uterine fibroids and infertility published by a researcher ...
The Economist

Fraudulent scientific papers are booming

SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS exist to do one thing: provide accurate, peer-reviewed reports of new research to an interested audience. But according to a paper published in PNAS on August 4th, that lofty goal ...