fraud

New blog post about fraud and research misconduct in scientific research. https://mecfsskeptic.com/how-many-scientific-papers-are-fake/ Twitter summary: 1) How many scientific papers are fake? A new review argues that fabrication and falsification of scientific results may be more common...

Alzheimer’s scientist indicted for allegedly falsifying data in $16M scheme A federal grand jury has indicted an embattled Alzheimer's researcher for allegedly falsifying data to fraudulently obtain $16 million in federal research funding from the National Institutes of Health for the...

I’m so sorry for psychology’s loss, whatever it is "Apparently is possible to reach the stratosphere of scientific achievement, to publish over and over again in “high impact” journals, to rack up tens of thousands of citations, and for none of it to matter"...

Despite recent scandals of research misconduct and error, the academic world still seems determined to look the other way There’s far more scientific fraud than anyone wants to admit | Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus | The Guardian

Paywalled Financial Times link Source blogs (first 2 published entries of 4) — [109] Data Falsificada (Part 1): "Clusterfake" [110] Data Falsificada (Part 2): "My Class Year Is Harvard"

The Truth Police - BBC Sounds

iNews 25 years after the MMR vaccine autism fraud, we’re still dealing with the consequences Stewart Richie The MMR scare was based on a fraudulent study. What have we learned since it was published? We’ve reached a very ignominious anniversary. Today, the infamous study that claimed to link...

The Economist There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research IN 2011 BEN MOL, a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Monash University, in Melbourne, came across a retraction notice for a study on uterine fibroids and infertility published by a researcher in Egypt. The journal...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46258687 This woman exploited a loophole at the time to avoid having her knowledge tested. What does it say about psychiatry that you can get away with no qualifications for this long without any peers picking up on it.

Excellent article on fraud in scientific publications by image sleuth Elisabeth Bik...

More than half of Dutch scientists regularly engage in questionable research practices, such as hiding flaws in their research design or selectively citing literature, according to a new study. And one in 12 admitted to committing a more serious form of research misconduct within the past 3...

Interesting article but ironic given the author's role with COPE, which whitewashed PACE, and Cochrane, given the organization's failure to deal with exactly this. Problem is that the people who make those statements only ever apply them to things they don't like, I would bet a good sum that the...

How the Lancet lost our trust Stuart Ritchie The Spectator (UK) 26/06/2021 A few of us have tried to get Ritchie interested in the PACE trial, but he has previously refused. But since it now seems to support his argument, he does cautiously mention it...

I found this and thought it might be a useful reference. https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Documents/2019/the-concordat-to-support-research-integrity.pdf Long document but here are a few exerpts: Found the document here...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibromyalgia#cite_note-Goldenberg1999-41 I was browsing the Fibromyalgia Wikipedia article when I came across this: The reference is: Goldenberg DL (April 1999). "Fibromyalgia syndrome a decade later: what have we learned?". Archives of Internal Medicine. 159...

Heathers is a data thug with @sTeamTraen

"Today we are listening in on a fascinating conversation between Ivan Tyrrell - Co-founder of the Human Givens approach and director of Human Givens College - and Farhad Dalal, who is a UK-based psychotherapist and author. Farhad Dalal’s book - CBT: The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami...

I just finished listening to a podcast (2 hrs 45 Minutes) with Katherine Eban the author of the book, "Bottle of Lies"? it certainly captured my attention. The book is about fraud in the generic pharmaceutical manufacturing in Asian countries and the podcast focused a lot on one specific...

not recommending the book but....... https://www.scribd.com/book/443434408/Thinking-And-Eating-For-Two-The-Science-of-Using-Systems-1-and-2-Thinking-to-Nourish-Self-and-Symbionts

Concentrates on lab research. https://quillette.com/2019/12/21/the-many-faces-of-scientific-fraud/ another RT from MS, expert on the subject