Scientists should declare their use of any third-party services that help them to write their papers

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Science has a reproducibility crisis on its hands, and biomedical researchers believe the infamous “publish or perish” research culture is behind it. Over 70% could not reproduce another scientist’s experiment. More than 62% attributed irreproducibility in science to “publish or perish” culture.

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National Science Foundation list of keywords to flag

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Federal court blocks drastic Trump medical research funding cuts

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Researchers who are accused of sexual misconduct start to receive fewer citations after the media covers the allegations. But the same cannot be said about scientists publicly accused of scientific fraud, whose citations remain unchanged.

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Critically appraising the cass report: methodological flaws and unsupported claims 📊🔍✍️

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Explosion of formulaic research articles 📄💥, including inappropriate study designs 🛠️ and false discoveries 🔍, based on the NHANES US national health database 🇺🇸📊.

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The Replication crisis hits sports and exercise research: only 28% replicate fully, effect sizes are reduced by 75% on average. Only 14% of original authors were willing to share their data. 📉🏋️‍♂️📊

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New study uncovers footprints of activities connected to scientific fraud that extend beyond the production of fake papers 📝💔 to brokerage roles in a widespread network of editors and authors who cooperate 🤝 to achieve the publication of scientific papers that escape traditional peer-review standards. 📚🔍

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See Figure 1: When a major Nature journal approves AI slop 🤖📝, it raises real questions about peer review 🤔, Nature’s quality control 🏷️, and whether scientific institutions can police themselves 🚨.

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Science Journal Retracts Widely Cited Study That Claimed Roundup Is Safe 🌱📉🧪

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Glyphosate safety article retracted eight years after Monsanto ghostwriting revealed in court 📰⚖️🌱

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Retraction notice to "Safety evaluation and risk assessment of the herbicide roundup 🌱 and its active ingredient, glyphosate, for humans 👥" - Concerns were raised regarding the authorship of this paper.

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Peer-reviewed by human experts: AI failed in key steps to generate a scoping review 📝🤖❌

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💡 Research authorship is crucial for careers, influencing hiring and funding, yet the process is often unclear.

🤔 My research, surveying over 3,500 scientists globally, found questionable authorship practices are common: 68% observed gift authorship (undeserved credit) and 55% observed ghost authorship (uncredited contributions).

👩‍🔬 Women researchers reported more negative experiences with authorship disagreements and felt less comfortable raising concerns, potentially exacerbating the "leaky pipeline" in academia.

🏫 Fewer than 25% of US PhD-granting universities have publicly available authorship policies, and those that do often lack guidance on conflict resolution.

#AcademicPublishing #ResearchIntegrity #ScienceCareers

🔬 A new analysis found 853 articles from the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection (IHU) have "substantial" ethical and legal concerns, with institute founder Didier Raoult as co-author on 758.

📢 Hundreds of papers from the IHU, praised by Donald Trump and Dr. Mehmet Oz during Covid-19, have ethical and legal issues, according to an international team of scientists. Raoult's now-retracted hydroxychloroquine study was cited thousands of times, leading to drug shortages and conspiracy theories.

🤔 The findings raise questions about the scientific judgment of past Trump administration health leaders. Dr. Anthony Fauci had warned against Raoult's research, calling it "anecdotal evidence."

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Journalism Can Help Expose Bad Science And Trigger Real-World Change, New Study Shows. Watchdog science journalism is where journalists investigate issues such as malpractice, fraud, and corporate manipulation in scientific research.

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