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The Cultural Roots of the Latest Big Retraction
“I see see a train wreck looming,” economist Daniel Kahneman has said of social priming research. (Photo: Wikimedia)The preeminent journal Science announced Thursday that it is retracting a paper on...
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Lessons from the LaCour Retraction
Is this the current state of academe’s guardians? At least “security guard” is in quotes. (Photo: Ethan Prater/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)The recent case of the retraction of an article on the ability of openly...
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Reversing Academe’s Sometimes Perverse Incentives
Full of people who didn’t publish – but also those who did, too. (Photo: NotFromUtrecht – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons)Last week there was another very public case of a journal...
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Eysenck Case Shows Need for Independent Research Integrity Ombudsperson
Ed. – Hans J. Eysenck was one of the most touted psychologists of the 20th century, and before his death in 1997 was reputed to be the most cited living psychologist. But his fame rested less on the...
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Can Twitter Serve as a Tripwire for Problematic Research?
Publications that are based on wrong data, methodological mistakes, or contain other types of severe errors can spoil the scientific record if they are not retracted. Retraction of publications is one...
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