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peer review selects for consensus instead of truth. new findings get rejected by reviewers who built careers on the old model. replication crises happen because incentives reward publication instead of verification the system is

This is the third part of a series on academic publishing. Read part one here and part two here. For many years, the prestigious journal Philosophy & Public Affairs published about

A new database tracking young scientist deaths in China exposes a deeper crisis. Overwork, burnout, and a flawed global academic system.

“The internet will have no more economic impact than the fax machine,” said Nobel laureate Paul Krugman. U.S. intelligence insisted the Afghan government would hold for months after the Am

One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 billion in 2024

An international team has uncovered widespread, long-running fraud in mathematical publishing, driven by the global obsession with impact factors, rankings, and citation counts.

Could well-intentioned efforts to reduce prejudice be pushing people further apart? Studies reveal why some messages backfire.

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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 →