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University press removes book about intelligent design for misquoting ID proponent
2+ week, 1+ day ago (425+ words) New York University Press is pulling all copies of a book about intelligent design after the author falsely quoted another scholar in the work. The misquote stemmed from a passage in a court ruling Howell “mistakenly” read as a direct…...
Guest post: The uncomfortable truth an explosion of papers reveals about authors’ access to data
2+ week, 5+ day ago (431+ words) A rapidly increasing number of published articles rely on analyses produced via the TriNetX platform. However, TriNetX users don’t get full access to the information in the platform, muddying the truthfulness of any analyses of the data and compromising the…...
A college student had to retract her paper. The move was ‘the starting point for a better study’
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (957+ words) As a sophomore at Princeton University, Rishika Porandla took a course called “The Curious Scientist,” where students practice disciplinary research skills and act as a “PI” on a project of their choosing. Porandla didn’t have to think twice about what…...
A composer published a paper on theoretical physics. His lack of credentials drew criticism.
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (778+ words) Some people compose music or make YouTube videos for a hobby. That’s Brandon Yates’ job — so in his spare time, he tries his hand at theoretical physics. But his only published paper was questioned because of his lack of professional…...
Journal, university investigations launched into gene-editing death following Science-Retraction Watch reporting
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (274+ words) Nature is investigating concerns surrounding a paper at the heart of a news story published last week on the death of a 6-year-old girl following a gene therapy treatment in China. The paper, published in February by a team led…...
‘The exploitation still remains’: Stats journal associate editors resign over $3,000 publishing charge
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (728+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. Eighteen associate editors of the journal Statistics and Computing have announced they will resign after Springer Nature announced the journal would require a…...
Editors of Courant math journal to leave Wiley, establish new roots with independent publisher
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (547+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. Editors of a journal run by a prestigious math institute will close up shop and form a new journal with an independent publisher,…...
New system for flagging retracted papers finds scores of them in Cochrane reviews
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (416+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. Cochrane has implemented a new system for checking whether any of its thousands of published reviews include retracted studies in their analyses, the…...
Weekend reads: arXiv to ban researchers with hallucinated references; U.S. restrictions on foreign coauthors; retracted papers by Max Planck
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (158+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch…...
Nine years after journalist raised concerns, BMJ Group journal retracts stent paper – Retraction Watch
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (592+ words) Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. A BMJ Group journal has retracted a paper nearly nine years after a journalist raised concerns about undisclosed conflicts of interest and the…...