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AI hype has researchers in fields from medicine to political science rushing to use techniques that they don’t always understand—causing a wave of spurious results.
Researchers found 127 systematic reviews and clinical guidelines that cited already retracted papers.
David Bimler, also known as Smut Clyde, scours the scientific literature for bogus articles.
The Kostoff knowledge v.8 Earlier this month, Elsevier’s Toxicology Reports (CiteScore 6.2, top quartile) published a special issue on the COVID-19 pandemic. Its includes a remarkable articl…
Nature - Grass-roots action against bad behaviour has spurred reform — and should keep going.
Anna Abalkina It keeps happening. There was the case of Talent Development and Excellence, which cloned an existing journal and managed to index hundreds of articles in Scopus, one of the wor…
Then there are the counterfeiters.
From black holes at the Earth's center to decapitated quails, a group of scientists—some working for a journal from a major publisher—are prolifically publishing pseudoscience.
In the era of Big Data, we’ve come to believe that, with enough information, human behavior is predictable. But number crunching can lead us perilously wrong.
Dr James O’Sullivan examines 'reproducibility', one of the shortcomings of digital humanities, which uses computers to anaylse complex materials.
The newish 'quarterly review of science' sometimes muddies the waters between science and political ideology. It is funded by Peter Thiel.
It’s not a new story, although “the reproducibility crisis” may seem to be. For life sciences, I think it started in the…
Oh crap.
Alleging that faked pulmonary research led to grants from NIH and other federal agencies, scientist could win huge payout from false-claims suit and set a precedent