by Adam Marcus, Ivan Oransky | Sep 17, 2020 | News
One paper from 2012 linked darker skin to aggression and sexuality in humans. Another from that year claimed to show that women with endometriosis are more attractive. A third, published last December, lamented physicians who posted casual pictures of themselves...
by Adam Marcus, Ivan Oransky | Jul 16, 2020 | News
So how might journals do things better? As Daniël Lakens, of Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, and his colleagues have argued, researchers should embrace a “Red Team challenge” approach to peer review. Just as software companies hire hackers to...
by Adam Marcus, Ivan Oransky | Jun 9, 2020 | News
When The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine pulled an influential pair of Covid-19 papers last Thursday, it was a rare event in scientific publishing. For medical researchers, this was like seeing The Washington Post and The New York Times take down...
by Adam Marcus, Ivan Oransky | Mar 28, 2020 | News
The Trump administration has made many stumbles in its response to the coronavirus pandemic, but one of the key failures was not having enough kits to test for the pathogen once it appeared in the United States. Instead of accepting kits from other countries—including...
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