Wednesday, 27 August 2025

Gold standard science isn't gold standard if it's applied selectively. Part 2: Research on causes of autism

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In my previous blogpost , I discussed why many scientists can't take seriously the lofty ideals expressed in Trump's plans for Gold ...
Tuesday, 26 August 2025

Gold standard science isn't gold standard if it's applied selectively. Part 1: Firearms injuries

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In May, the White House produced a report called " Restoring Gold Standard Science ", which was followed by an NIH plan to impleme...
Thursday, 31 July 2025

New publishing models will only work if authors embrace them

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Complaints about the broken academic publishing system have been around for years and are getting louder. A common theme is that with the r...
Monday, 21 July 2025

Trouble at t' (review) mill: How MDPI lets down authors

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 I guess many readers will have had peer reviews where the reviewer doesn't appear to have understood, or even properly read, the paper ...
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Sunday, 16 March 2025

Book Review: Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research

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by Csaba Szabo, Columbia University Press, 2025  This is a rollicking good read, written in an informal style, and enlivened by cartoons, wh...
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Saturday, 22 February 2025

IEEE Has a Pseudoscience Problem

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Guest post by Solal Pirelli The IEEE, full name Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is one of the main scientific publisher...
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Wednesday, 12 February 2025

Seven reasons for keeping Elon Musk as a Fellow of the Royal Society

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  Last November, I wrote a blogpost explaining why I had resigned as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). In brief, over the summer a group ...
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Saturday, 18 January 2025

Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine: another embarrassing paper for MDPI

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  Many publishers are getting nervous about infiltration by paper mills, who can torpedo a journal's reputation when they succeed in pu...
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Wednesday, 1 January 2025

Retrospective look at blog highlights of 2024: What happened next?

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It's always interesting for a blogger to look back to see which posts have garnered most attention. In 2024 there were three standout ...
Monday, 23 December 2024

Finland vs. Germany: the case of MDPI

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It's been an odd week for the academic publisher MDPI. On 16th December, Finland's Publication Forum (known as JUFO) announced tha...
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