Retraction Watch

Weekend reads: ‘The Discipline of Last Resort’; universities with the most retractions; ‘patent mills’ featuring Ivan Oransky Adam Marcus Heterodox Academy Richard Van Noorden Avery Orrall Kate Travis Reese Richardson and more https://lnkd.in/etcFhGPN

The Discipline of Last Resort Retraction isn’t designed as punishment, but it serves that role by default. And that’s OK. Our Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus in Heterodox Academy's Inquisitive

"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."

"I thought I was fairly cynical about the kinds of misconduct that goes on, but it turns out I am not cynical enough." A Q&A with sleuth Nick Wise, now working at Taylor & Francis Group

Springer Nature retracted nearly 3,000 papers last year, Kate Travis reports

Weekend reads: ‘Why I retracted part of my PhD dissertation’; second NIH official departs; Bik fund Featuring Elisabeth Bik Science Magazine The Atlantic Ivan Oransky Adam Marcus Kate Travis Avery Orrall Ellie Kincaid Charles Piller Holden Thorp and more

"The scientific literature is an essential ocean of knowledge, in which floats an alarming amount of junk." Our Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus reflect on RFK Jr.'s use of scholarly papers in his confirmation hearings.

We're thrilled to announce the creation of the Elisabeth Bik Science Integrity Fund to "provide financial resources to Bik and other sleuths and collaborators, as well as provide funding for training programs, grants, or awards for science integrity advocates." Thanks to Jeffrey Brainard at Science Magazine for a story on the new fund. And find out more -- including how you can make tax-deductible contributions to increase the impact -- here: https://lnkd.in/gygJin7F

"If one group weaponizes retractions to delegitimize studies they find problematic, why shouldn’t another?" Our Ivan Oransky speaks with Alice Dreger of Heterodox Academy

The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Frederik Cundin Joelving reports