Category: Scientific Misconduct
Category: Scientific Misconduct
Investigators and the media need to be more careful interpreting and reporting “cancer mortality”
By Bob KaplanDespite recent scandals of research misconduct and error, the academic world still seems determined to look the other way.
“I learnt very early on in my career that you cannot slice data the way they did.” says John Mandrola, a cardiac electrophysiologist.
The Food and Drug Administration’s recent approval of new Alzheimer’s drugs sparked a flicker of hope for the millions affected by this devastating disease. But this progress […]
A neuroscience image sleuth finds signs of fabrication in scores of Alzheimer’s articles, threatening a reigning theory of the disease
Earlier this month, the 2022 Nobel Physics Laureate Dr. John Clauser slammed the ‘climate emergency’ narrative as a “dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy […]
William Briggs builds upon Greg Glassman's Castro Ranch talk introducing The Broken Science Initiative. Briggs emphasizes that his critique is not aimed at all types of science, but rather at the growing prevalence of broken and bad science. Briggs highlights two especially impactful examples of broken science, namely the COVID "panic" and climate change. Using these examples, Briggs demonstrates how reliance on flawed models and blind trust in "the science" has lead to severe political and social ramifications for everyone.