A trumpet for Ramdev
The Print published an article entitled 'Ramdev’s Patanjali does a ‘first’, its Sanskrit paper makes it to international journal' on February 5, 2020. Excerpt: In a first, international scien…
scientific publishing
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The cycle
Is it just me or does everyone see a self-fulfilling prophecy here? https://twitter.com/nature/status/1192129029924634625 For a long time, and assisted ably by the ‘publish or perish’ paradigm, rese…
The case for preprints
Daniel Mansur, the principal investigator of a lab at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina that studies how cells respond to viruses, had this to say about why preprints are useful in an intervi…
English as the currency of science's practice
K. VijayRaghavan, the secretary of India's Department of Biotechnology, has written a good piece in Hindustan Times about how India must shed its "intellectual colonialism" to excel at s…
The language and bullshitness of 'a nearly unreadable paper'
Earlier today, the Retraction Watch mailing list highlighted a strange paper written by a V.M. Das disputing the widely accepted fact that our body clocks are regulated by the gene-level circadian rhy…
The language and bullshitness of 'a nearly unreadable paper'
Earlier today, the Retraction Watch mailing list highlighted a strange paper written by a V.M. Das disputing the widely accepted fact that our body clocks are regulated by the gene-level circadian rhy…
A conference's peer-review was found to be sort of random, but whose fault is it?
It's not a good time for peer-review. Sure, if you've been a regular reader of Retraction Watch, it's never been a good time for peer-review. But aside from that, the process has increasin…
Some research misconduct trends by the numbers
A study published in eLIFE on August 14, 2014, looked at data pertaining to some papers published between 1992 and 2012 that the Office of Research Integrity had determined contained research miscondu…
Plagiarism is plagiarism
In a Nature article, Praveen Chaddah argues that textual plagiarism entails that the offending paper only carry a correction and not be retracted because that makes the useful ideas and results in the…
R&D in China and India
"A great deal of the debate over globalization of knowledge economies has focused on China and India. One reason has been their rapid, sustained economic growth. The Chinese economy has averaged…
Replication studies, ceiling effects, and the psychology of science
On May 25, I found Erika Salomon's tweet: https://twitter.com/ecsalomon/status/470599635095285760 The story started when the journal Social Psychology decided to publish successful and failed re…