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A keen eye for detecting manipulation
In an effort to improve the quality of the scientific articles it publishes, the Journal of Clinical Investigation began requiring that all authors provide the raw data produced by their experiments
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Error leads to retraction of controversial article
The journal Scientific Reports announced the retraction of a 2019 article claiming that fluctuations in the Sun's magnetic field play a role in climate change on Earth
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Young academics are more afraid of reporting misconduct
A group of scientific integrity experts from the Netherlands and Norway interviewed 1,100 researchers from eight European universities
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The spread of plagiarism
Russian Academy of Sciences uncovers widespread misconduct, leading to the retraction of 869 articles
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Predatory journal training
The University Grants Commission has decreed that universities in the country must train all PhD students in the ethics of scientific publication
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Support for the publication of unexpected results
€1,000 is offered as a bonus to researchers at the Berlin Institute of Health who publish negative results
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Crackdown on fraudulent citations
Publishers and journals attempt to combat fraudulent conduct in the article review process
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Article retracted by Nobel Prize winner
Frances Arnold, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on the evolution of enzymes, announced on Twitter that her group was retracting a scientific article published last year
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Guidelines canceled after opioid crisis
The World Health Organization has announced the retraction of two guidelines on the use of opioidsfor pain control
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Employees or spies?
Report recommends ways of preventing foreign influence on research in the USA
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Punished after reporting colleagues
An investigation by the Canadian Association of University Teachers found that the leaders of Thompson Rivers University violated the academic freedom of one of its professors
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Retraction overview
A researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Leiden, Netherlands, published a paper that gives a comprehensive overview of scientific articles retracted due to errors, bias, fraud, or plagiarism
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Flawed theory retracted
The idea that HIV may not be the cause of AIDS was suggested in the 1990s, but completely discredited when drugs were created that prevented replication of the virus and eliminated the symptoms of the syndrome
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Purdue researcher admits fraud
At a US district court, Qingyou Han, director of Purdue University's Center for Materials Processing Research, admitted defrauding the NSF, the USA's largest research funding agency
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From good example to bad
The journal Nature decided to revoke an award it gave to Spanish biochemist Carlos López-Otín in 2017 in recognition of his work as a mentor for young researchers
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Two faces of excellence
The Wellcome Trust, a biomedical research foundation based in London, has launched two initiatives aimed at gathering information about the behavior of scientists and the environment in which they work
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Academic legacy in dispute
King's College finds work by one of its most renowned researchers "unsafe"
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Agencies facing unique challenges
A comparative study looks at how two of the USA's top research funding agencies deal with cases of misconduct
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Secret donations lead to MIT lab director’s resignation
Entrepreneur and digital activist Joichi Ito resigned as director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
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Astrophysicist dismissed for bullying
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich has dismissed Italian astrophysicist Marcella Carollo, who in 2017 was accused of bullying PhD students
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Statistical support for psychology journals
A group of researchers have proposed a new strategy to prevent errors and biases in psychology research findings
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Swedish universities suffer crisis of confidence
Parliament sets up agency to centralize investigations into scientific misconduct
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Academy may expel members for misconduct
The US National Academy of Sciences has announced a change to its bylaws to allow the expulsion of members who violate the organization's code of conduct
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Is it possible to derive good from evil?
The quality and usefulness of the Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy is now raising ethical questions
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