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Scientific fraud is a growing problem. “You can’t just read an abstract and have any faith in it. I kind of assume everything’s wrong,” a scientist and journal editor told me. Read our deep dive for The Conversation U.S. theconversation.com/fake-papers-ar…

Very happy to see that the Cochrane Library Cochrane is now using the Retraction Watch Database to flag retracted papers. cochrane.org/news/cochrane-…

In my view this is an important article that everybody who publishes in the scientific literature should read. It's written by a stellar line up of "data sleuths" | Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social | Elisabeth Bik | Dorothy Bishop | Prof Jennifer Byrne 🧬 | Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩ | Adam Day | Nick Wise |

NAAC has been embroiled in controversies. Another case of massive corruption happening in NAAC Institute in question is KLEF. We had flagged it in the list of most retractions last year (KLEF was 10th in the list) : x.com/IRWatchdog/sta…

Yes. And why?

This is extremely concerning. The correct response is: (a) class-action lawsuits against the major plastic producers, and (b) degrow the plastics industry.

I've flagged more than a dozen papers on PubPeer by an Editor-in-Charge of a Taylor & Francis Research Insights journal *in their own journal* (+ more in others). I'm getting bored, so I've asked the publisher if they want me to continue or not. Some of this looks really bad. Some could be errors.

“We will not retract published articles on request by an author on the basis that they contain so-called banned words,” says the BMJ. bmj.com/content/388/bm…

Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Byrne (Prof Jennifer Byrne 🧬) from University of Sydney and NSW Health Pathology who is the 2025 recipient of the Academy's David Vaux Research Integrity Fellowship Award. The award recognises individuals who have led efforts to foster and promote integrity in

The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Frederik Joelving reports retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/veg…

A giant shoe finally drops - my story: Alzheimer’s scientist resigns after university finds ‘data integrity concerns’ in papers | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Ouch

And counting... India Research Watch (IRW)

If Trump is able to defy court orders, it means democracy in the US is broken

I want to make one thing clear. I left BBC News (UK) last year after covering Gaza for months because I could see evidence accumulating into the robust conclusion that Israel has been committing war crimes & crimes against humanity. 1/4

Real-world politics is necessarily strategic. Nonetheless, bowing one’s head and treating Trump with deference helps normalize his unacceptable and undignified behaviors. That’s a poor long-term strategy nytimes.com/2025/03/06/wor…

Can’t tell if this sounds more like a spoiled 5yo or the princess and the pea. Certainly not a president of a Western country. “If you make him unhappy, he responds unhappy,” Lutnick said of Trump.

Amazing!

Recently released QS Subject wise rankings make no sense. IIT Bombay and IIT Madras are ranked below Lovely Professional University, SRM Institute, Amity University in research. Nobody in their right mind will accept these rankings! We should not take these rankings seriously!