This is a bad policy, NEJM, as I told MedPage Today. medpagetoday.com/special-report…

Looking forward to this. Thanks Nicole C Rust, PhD for the kind words and the opportunity!

Correction: I told WUDAN YAN | wudan.bsky.social this four years ago. Apologies, too many tabs open.

I told Apoorva Mandavilli this four years ago today. Still true.
“Science is a conversation. Unfortunately people in times of crisis forget that science is a proposition and a conversation and an argument.” nytimes.com/2020/04/14/sci…

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'[S]cience increasingly driven by the visual and the sensational instead of the complex scientific inquiry based on scientific method, implicates a defeat of scientific practice against the rising tide of requested artwork and spectacularizing mass media.' academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…

“You have publishers—most of them are for profit—that demand and require constant growth because that's what the stock market requires. You have researchers...who champion quality and maybe depth and time to review. Those are in opposition.” via nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

Thrilled that Scienceline Kids is a finalist in the SPJ New England SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards scienceline.org/scienceline-ki… Congrats Ellyn Lapointe Alice Sun and all of the SHERPies!

'Papers are being published not to be read, but in fact the researchers are hoping that nobody reads them, because if they do read them, they'll see that they're often filled with gibberish.' Our Ivan Oransky speaks to BBC's Evan Davis bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

'For every one paper that is retracted, there are probably 10 that should be,” said Dr. Ivan Oransky, co-founder of Retraction Watch, which keeps a database of 47,000+ retracted studies. “Journals are not particularly interested in correcting the record.” nytimes.com/2024/03/20/sci…

' Anew study garnering attention is a type of nutritional research that is notoriously weak, and right now it’s only available as a press release.' By Matthew Herper for STAT statnews.com/2024/03/19/int…

'If it's the first time you've seen a really weird paper get published, I can see why it would capture your attention,' Ivan Oransky...told Business Insider. But for him, he said, 'it's all sort of mind-numbingly routine at this point.' businessinsider.com/fake-science-c…

Want a list of dozens of papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT? Retraction Watch, Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩ and @[email protected] have you covered. retractionwatch.com/papers-and-pee…

Congratulations NYU Women's Basketball, national champions!

I remember the travails of prescribing clozapine from my psychiatric training. Very interesting piece by Barron H. Lerner and Roushan Poudel. journals.lww.com/hrpjournal/ful…

'And so when they see contradictory result after contradictory result, I don’t blame the public for losing trust in science, because we have not worked to build our own trustability, because we are not policing fraud enough.' undark.org/2024/03/08/int…

KPMG government report on research integrity makes up reference involving Retraction Watch founders retractionwatch.com/2024/03/04/kpm…

'Our findings indicate that communicating uncertainty buffers against a loss of trust when evidence changes. Moreover, explaining uncertainty does not appear to harm trust.' journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

'Influencers on social media may cite VAERS data as evidence supporting misinformed conclusions about vaccine safety.' jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

'We argue that the science beat is especially vulnerable to the influence of PR due to its marginal role within newsrooms, its reliance on expert sources and the increasing incentives for scientific organisations to engage in PR.' taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/…