Were two separate, major lines of Alzheimer’s research tainted by image fabrication, with far-reaching implications for the field? I take a deep look for science.org/content/articl
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Thanks to Art Woods, and team for great questions. This is an excellent overview of key issues out of my recent investigation
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"Fabricated images threaten the integrity of Alzheimer’s research" is live!
@cpiller on potential fraud in #Alzheimers research and his @sciencemagazine article exposing troubling evidence of fabrication in a set of hugely influential papers.
Listen here: buff.ly/3MQ3J0i
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Exciting job opportunity: is looking for a European news editor. Find stories around the continent, work with great writers (+ recruit new ones) and be part of a wonderful global team of writers and editors. Position is based in the UK. bit.ly/3yVDdgi
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An Academic Freedom Conference - by invitation only 🤔
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Stanford is hosting an Academic Freedom Conference next month. My request to attend has been denied: "We are not inviting the media to our conference in order to foment a more open discussion."
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U.S. weighs crackdown on experiments that could make viruses more dangerous via
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A preview of our new episode with of about potential fraud in #AlzheimersDisease research. Tune in tomorrow to hear the full conversation!
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#science #podcast
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Excellent explainer by about the Boston University experiment that made a chimeric virus from Omicron spike ancestral SARS-CoV-2 strain.
I'll say it again: It's a complicated topic. This is how journalists should handle it.
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Coming up on Big Biology, we talk with about his explosive article for on potential fabrication in #AlzheimersDisease research and its far-reaching implications for the field.
Episode out Thursday 10/20
Read the article here:
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Re FL surgeon general: Remember, do no harm? "Until the scientific community deals with misinformation from within, it cannot expect to deal with it from without." via
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Interested in AAPI disparities? I hope you'll join this important conversation with a stellar lineup of speakers.
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Congrats! Well deserved.
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I’m super excited to announce that I’ve been selected as a winner of the Awards for Excellence in Science Communication, given by @theNASEM in partnership with @SchmidtFutures. #SciCommFutures
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“He didn't hold his knowledge over you. I think his knowledge existed to help others."
That's a quote from former UT EIC capturing the Henry we knew, who was also a former UT EIC.
And the story is by the current EIC .❤️
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Henry Fuhrmann worked at the Los Angeles Times, but he started his journalism journey on our Cal State LA campus.
To read the full story click the link below:
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: @miaaa_alva , Editor-in-Chief
: Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times
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It is difficult to imagine correction mechanisms in science -- and indeed science itself -- today without PubPeer. Happy birthday, and many more! (Disclosure: I am a member of the board of directors of the PubPeer Foundation.)
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My editorial in on the mess at NYU with Mait Jones and organic chemistry. The problem here is the inability of the universities, faculty, and medical establishment to deal with premedical education. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc 1/n
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Hey, does anyone remember that time ran a paper on the cover the week she won the Nobel Prize?
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Excited about this profile of for with support from Tulio "is the sweetest, coolest guy" -- and a thorn in some sides.
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‘Honorary authors’ of scientific papers abound—but they probably shouldn’t via
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Sunday’s brutal crackdown in Tehran shocked academics and students worldwide. It also drove home the important role students and universities are playing in the uprising against the Iranian government. bit.ly/3T3IyJJ by
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In 2019, the very well known US health journalist wrote a great article "The war on ‘prediabetes' could be a boon for pharma but is it good medicine?
A third of Americans are considered prediabetic—but many may be better off without treatment"
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Behind Newsom’s move on California’s chronic problem with the mentally ill -- poignant, personal, and thoughtful take by
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This is great for The Washington Post, its readers, and the reporters you will work with, and maybe even the nation. But this seriously sucks for your friends in California.
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As someone who has been edited by Martin (in English) I can attest that he's an elite expert on this topic
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Writing for English-speaking media if English is not your mother tongue may be hard but is not impossible. (I know from experience.) @HumbertoBasilio asked me and other science editors for tips on how to get started. theopennotebook.com/2022/09/27/how
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Next chapter in Rick Bright saga ‘Cycles of panic and neglect’: Head of Pandemic Prevention Inst explains its early death via
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Your semi-occasional reminder that once you threaten to sue , that will be in our headlines about you for all time. retractionwatch.com/2022/10/03/fra
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Simple reminders from regulators have had a strong impact on #clinicaltrials reporting across Europe
-> note that none of these regulators had the power to impose fines for this particular cohort of (older) trials
transparimed.org/single-post/cl #FDAAA
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A poignant example of how scientists and journalists must keep describing complexity and nuance even if anti-science forces might misuse our work.
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A wonderfully told, nuanced story by @rkhamsi about a doctor wrestling with his cancer’s spread and the potential link to an mRNA vaccine—and his worry (and the writer’s) that his going public will fuel bogus anti-vaccine arguments.
theatlantic.com/science/archiv
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How I did it: Reporting on apparent misconduct in influential Alzheimer research. ’s thoughtful & important reflections on trust in science. Like porcelain, trust is easily cracked but once cracked, hard to repair.
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"Just 10% of reviewers of a test paper recommended acceptance when the sole listed author was obscure—but 59% endorsed the same manuscript when it carried the name of a Nobel laureate." bit.ly/3eQy1D1 by
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Newmaster paper that started NYAG ball rolling allowed to stand unchanged
Goodbye to one of the most gracious and wise colleagues I have been privileged to work with - Henry Fuhrmann, Times editor and 'word nerd' who fought for fairness in grammar, dies
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Great podcast about of my recent Alzheimer's investigation by and for - they worked hard, worth a listen podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/unexplain
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How I did it: Reporting on apparent misconduct in influential Alzheimer’s research | Association of Health Care Journalists. Great insight from #AHCJ
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This is a prototypical case of inaction and lack of transparency by the institution and journal in how it conducted its investigation and drew its conclusions. If the evidence is exonerating, sharing it helps the accused. Secrecy just breeds distrust in everyone involved.
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The perplexing Steven Newmaster saga continues: amid fraud accusations/evidence @BMCMedicine won't retract key article, yet doesn't seem to stand firmly behind it science.org/content/articl
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The perplexing Steven Newmaster saga continues: amid fraud accusations/evidence won't retract key article, yet doesn't seem to stand firmly behind it
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Ep. 18: joined us to discuss his groundbreaking reporting on some potentially fraudulent Alzheimer's research. This is an extremely important episode. Read 's article and listen to the interview:
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Good "thread" that is
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Good threat on an important case. twitter.com/BorisBarbour/s…
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Good threat on an important case.
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Finally.
But the passivity of the French authorities has been and still is grim.
Raoult certainly deserves to spend his retirement tending to his court cases. And I don't see how the IHU can recover without a complete management transplant.
lemonde.fr/planete/articl
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Some interesting riffs about and beyond my recent investigation of Alzheimer's research from by and and others
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