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“Inside an Academic Scandal” explores an influential 2012 study on truthfulness marred by fraudulent data.

Democrats became so caught up appealing to experts that they forgot to appeal to voters.

From Michael Shellenberger Accelerated sea level is one of the main justifications for predicting very high costs for adapting to climate change. And while good scientists have debunked acceleratio…

In southern India, a new enterprise called Peer Publicon Consultancy offers a full suite of services to scientific researchers. It will not only write a scholarly paper for a fee but also guarantee pu

The mysteries of the universe are deeper than we ever imagined. Recent findings from the James Webb Space Telescope have unsettled what scientists thought

Ilka AgricolaCredit: Thorsten Richter Scholarly publishing in mathematics is unlike many other fields, marked by fewer papers, fewer coauthors per paper and fewer citations. But that doesn’t mean t…

Harvard leads the world in science and in philosophizing on how to make the world a better place. It’s time to make metascience a bigger part of the conversation.

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America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.

The fear of unleashing forces beyond control has haunted science for centuries.

An international team of authors led by Ilka Agricola, professor of mathematics at the University of Marburg, Germany, has investigated fraudulent practices in the publication of research results in mathematics on behalf of the German Mathematical Society (DMV) and the International Mathematical Union (IMU), documenting systematic fraud over many years.

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"Nearly 70 years later, that [US] leadership [science] is in peril. According to the latest annual Nature Index, which tracks research institutions by their

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Our knowledge evolves, our methods improve, and that’s what makes science worth trusting.

The irreproducibility crisis of modern science—the failure of large proportions of scientific research to produce true results—just keeps on going. In November, a survey of 1,924 biomed

Molecular biologist Mike Rossner, who has committed his life to following the science, now finds himself playing an unexpected if urgent role – exposing the fraud of his fellow scientists.

by Art Rangno How we fooled ourselves about the effectiveness of cloud seeding. The Colorado River Basin Pilot Project (CRBPP, 1970-75) is still the most ambitious, expensive randomized orographic cloud seeding project in US history. It featured an unprecedented amount … Continue reading →

Every day we read a new headline warning us that American leadership is about to erode because of budget cuts to 'science.'We have been told tuberculosis was about to be cured but a grant got cut and, gosh darn it, now Republicans ruined it. We have been told we'll be set back for generations.

Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

"The people that control the journals, in particular the editors, often have an interest in promoting a narrative," says Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

Psychologists have known that something was wrong with their field since at least 2011. Now, there's a real plan to fix things, and it seems to be working.

The latest wave of explanations for the apparent slowdown in technological progress posits that science is broken, having become less productive in terms of generating significant advances in our understanding of how our world works.

A new report released this week by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is weighing in on a contentious debate within the science

Richard Harris has an elephant’s memory for busted scientific claims. In his new book on the replication crisis, Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science...