The Medical Evidence Project, a venture of The Center for #ScientificIntegrity, aims to reduce harm to patients & improve outcomes by finding & publicizing serious errors in the medical literature. Under the directorship of James Heathers, PhD, the Medical Evidence Project uses forensic […]

Antonis was recently nominated for the Science Council’s 2025 CSci Award, a testament to the value the professional community places on integrity and cross-sector reflection.

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NFCC chemist details LC‑MS proteomics used to identify counterfeit, contaminated biotherapeutics Dr. David Skelton of the FDA National Forensic Chemistry Center described LC‑MS proteomic methods and presented case studies showing identification of semaglutide in an unknown powder, collagen contamination in a suspect product, and a valine→threonine substitution affecting ~40% of a suspect biotherapeutic (date not specified in transcript).

Discover how cutting-edge LC-MS techniques are uncovering counterfeit biotherapeutics and revealing hidden dangers in the world of medicine.

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Science Is Drowning in AI Slop Peer review has met its match.

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.

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Science Is Drowning in AI Slop Peer review has met its match.

The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.

#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience

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AI chatbots are infiltrating social-science surveys — and getting better at avoiding detection A researcher has created a chatbot that is indistinguishable from human participants in online surveys. Some researchers fear that a workhorse of social science is now under threat.

An interesting risk with AI ChatBots is when they are used to take surveys, particularly when "people" taking the survey are paid for their time. Of *course* this is going to be mis-used!

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Our 14-week virtual #researchethics Course starts Feb 4, and time is running out to enroll!

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Comiczeichnung eines jungen Forschers, der mit fragendem Blick vier aufgefächerte Manuskript-Blätter in der linken Hand anschaut und sich dabei mit der rechten Hand am Kopf kratzt. Rechts daneben Überschrift "Ein verdammtes Paper zu viel" des im Post verlinkten Artikels, gefolgt von dessen Vorspann mit dem Text: "Warum erfinden zweifelhafte Journals Artikel und listen real existierende Forschende in der Autorenzeile? Was haben sie davon? – Ein Beispiel."

Warum erfinden zweifelhafte Journals Artikel und listen real existierende Forschende in der Autorenzeile? Was haben sie davon? … Ein konkretes Beispiel samt weiterer Gedanken dazu in unserer "Freitags-Kolumne": www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3.... #scientificintegrity #publicationethics

NSF seeks public input on its Fiscal Year (FY) 2026–2030 NSF Strategic Plan

This is your chance to help shape NSF's direction for the next four years! The deadline to submit your feedback is Jan. 27, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. ET.

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We're excited to share the Editorial ✍️ by our Editor-in-Chief Seamus Martin.

🌟The FEBS Journal in 2026: Safeguarding scientific integrity amid the rise of the machines

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Credit in research goes hand in hand with responsibility Trust in science needs researchers, journals and institutions to correct the scientific record quickly and transparently when errors are found.

"Researchers agree to follow a set of behaviours that should amount to the highest standards of integrity. This is what trust in science is built on."

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WHO infertility guidelines 2025: a call for evidence-based practice The release of the first World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infertility (World Health Organization, 2025

Más comentarios sobre la guía sobre infertilidad de la OMS: práctica en base a la evidencia e integridad científica.
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The Next Frontier For Public Access: Building Channels of Meanin (via @aaas.org) www.aaas.org/news/next-fr... #scholcomm #libraries #publishing #scientificintegrity

🧪 True, but absolutely tragic that you should even have to say this out loud

And, by the way, reading the abstract doesn’t count

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The Experimentalist "Scientists are often quick to blame the media for poor #scicomm , but ultimately those stories wouldn’t exist without the scientists participating in the process" Let's change that. Talk abou...

🐬✖️ What connects the X-Files and dolphins? Apparently, #ScientificIntegrity! 🤔

Read all about it here: www.theexperimentalist.org.

Special thanks to Dr. @elisabethbik.bsky.social for this interview❣️

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Early-career researchers can build the foundation that every scientist needs. Learn the habits and judgment that will guide your entire career. Our Research Ethics Course starts February 4.

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White House OSTP Issues RFI Regarding “Accelerating the American Scientific Enterprise” - Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. On Thanksgiving Eve, November 26, 2025, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) requested input from interested parties on federal

White House OSTP Issues RFI Regarding “Accelerating the American Scientific Enterprise”
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I recently joined Science Integrity Alliance as Editorial Lead. REACH is the alliance's quarterly magazine for research integrity and open science and just published its second issue.

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I can't take credit for this fantastic edition […]

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When it comes to correcting the scientific record, chemists prefer to have a quiet word Those surveyed even report introducing ‘errors’ into their work to satisfy reviewers

When it comes to correcting the scientific record, chemists prefer to have a quiet word #Science #Chemistry #Communication #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchEthics

1 in 5 chemists have deliberately added errors into their papers during peer review, study finds Conclusion is one of many in a report about how chemists handle errors in manuscripts

This was interesting 🧪

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Pathways for Ukraine’s post-war nature recovery: Focus on forest socio-ecological systems - Ambio | Patrick Waeber 🌍 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐳𝐳𝐥𝐞𝐝. Earlier this year a journal rejected one of our manuscripts after nearly two months of “internal review.” Not because of flawed data or weak analysis, but because the ed...

A journal once asked us to stay “politically neutral.”
But Russia invaded Ukraine is not an opinion. It’s a fact.
Science must stay uncomfortable, factual, and free ... or it stops being science.

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Goldendale council discusses updating critical areas ordinance; seeks more information before selecting consultant scope Councilmembers debated whether to fund a locally tailored "best available science" report as part of a mandated update to the city's critical areas ordinance and asked staff to compile more information on past work, costs and county options before approving a contract.

Goldendale's City Council is at a crossroads: should they invest in a tailored science report for local environmental needs or settle for state guidance?

Get the details!

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When inquiry becomes ritual and equations turn into liturgy,
what is lost isn’t math — it’s humility.
Science breathes only where doubt is still allowed to speak.
Listen to those who still ask why.
@hossenfelder.bsky.social

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OA journals try to stem the flow of spurious correlations.

E.g."The two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol," R.F. Kennedy Jr says.

Scientific integrity: Perceptions and recommendations from a qualitative study with actors of the science, technology, and innovation system in Colombia - Diana Rocío Bernal-Camargo, Carlos Enrique Tr... The review of the scientific literature has provided evidence of the presence of scientific misconduct and questionable conduct in research (QCR), without furth...

Read the latest: "Scientific integrity: Perceptions and recommendations from a qualitative study with actors of the science, technology, and innovation system in Colombia" Diana Rocío Bernal-Camargo et al, 2025

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🎧 Serge Horbach, assistant prof at @isis-radboud.bsky.social, is part of this podcast episode on the past and future of journal peer review. 👇 #STS #scientificintegrity #peerreview

What's most important? Richard Feyman may have said it best: "learning how to not fool ourselves—of having utter scientific integrity…a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty—a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid—not only what you think is right about it: other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked—to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated. Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can—if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong—to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it. There is also a more subtle problem. When you have put a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate theory, you want to make sure, when explaining what it fits, that those things it fits are not just the things that gave you the idea for the theory; but that the finished theory makes something else come out right, in addition. In summary, the idea is to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgement in one particular direction or another."

"I have just one wish for you—the good luck to be somewhere where you...do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity." - Richard Feynman

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