There's often a really interesting story behind a retraction. That's what Ivan Oransky told us. He's a doctor and journalist and founder, along with Adam Marcus, of a blog called Retraction Watch. They monitor scientific journals and investigate why articles were retracted. They uncovered serious ethical breaches at a variety of journals. We asked Oransky to tell us about some of the stories he's covered this year.
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Plagiarism in a "family" style
How young ambitious capoes and soldiers from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) under supervision of a decrepit american don-godfather from Northwestern University are successfully completed their sequential plagiaristic enterprise: http://issuu.com/r_sklyar/docs/sklyarvsmussaivaldi
Your consistent hammering on this and similar issues is appreciated. it is under-reported!
Many scientists are shady snobs
That was an excellent "On The Media" session with Dr. Ivan Oransky. Though I am a young pathologist, I have had 'issues' with the direction research and paper generation for publication has been going for a while. Many of Ivan's comments were spot on, and I completely agree with his suggestions about the journey of scientific discovery and how professionals should approach research endeavors. 'Publish or perish' is not an appropriate attitude: leading to hasty, flawed study designs, creative statistics and circular, confusing diatribe masquerading as logic. Thanks for your work Ivan :)
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