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Finding and reporting an irregularity in a published study can lead people down an unexpected path.

By Katrina Krämer2021-05-25T08:54:00+01:00 ‘As with many hidden criminal syndicates, you don’t always know what’s happening,’ says Retraction Watch’s Ivan Oransky about paper mills. They are the biggest organised fraud perpetrated on scientific journals ever, eroding scientists’ trust in the publishing system – and in each other. While plagiarism and fraud isn’t new – individual researchers have been caught photoshopping electron microscopy images or inventing elemental analysis data – paper mills serve up professional fakery for their customers on an industrial scale. Bu...

Pharma lab seems to contradict itself, science in fight to bleed SC horseshoe crabs Chiara Eisner, The State (Columbia, S.C.) May 19—A judge banned horseshoe crab harvesting on Cape Romain, then Charles River appealed. Here's what the lab is arguing in court, sometimes seemingly at odds with science and experts. A federal judge has prohibited the harvest of horseshoe crabs in the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge near Charleston. The new order was expected to restrict the operations of a Massachusetts-based biomedical company, Charles River Laboratories, that for almost 3...

May 15, 2020Communication about the unreviewed and preliminary nature of Covid-19–related preprint studies remains widely inconsistent among online media outlets, according to a new study published in the journal Health Communication. Researchers looked for specific keywords in their analysis among news outlets including The New York Times, Medscape, and Business Insider and found that while a little over half used at least one phrase to indicate the study was a preprint or that the findings were unreviewed or preliminary, the rest didn’t make that distinction. “[The pandemic] has show...

English By Kathleen Struck Share on Facebook Print this page Since taking office in January, President Joe Biden has reaffirmed a national commitment to integrity in scholarship and research, appointing scientists to numerous leadership roles.   Educators and experts applaud these appointments and say elevating intellectual integrity in research and science will take the combined effort of universities, industry and the public, too.     Biden appointed Eric Lander -- who in 2001 was the first author on a paper published in the science ...