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I first had this idea about 10 years ago.

Readers who have followed the development of GRIM might recall that we (that's me and the Wild Man of Boston) asked 21 researchers for their data.

In my previous blog post I mentioned that the next one, which you are reading now, would look at a recent paper from Nicolas Guéguen that I investigated using a technique that James Heathers and I (mostly me, this time) developed, which we call RIVETS.

Loyal readers of this blog may have been wondering if there have been any updates on the Nicolas Guéguen story since I wrote this post back in June 2020.

This post is about some issues in Study 3 of the following article: Lee, J.

This post is about some issues in the following article, and most notably its dataset: Mo, C.

In this post I'm going to be discussing this article: Zhang, T., Gino, F., & Norton, M.

The investigation of scientific misconduct by Ivy League universities is once again in the news at the moment, which prompts me to write up something that I should have written up quite a while ago.

In this post I'm going to be discussing this article, but mostly its dataset: Néma, J., Zdara, J., Lašák, P., Bavlovič, J., Bureš, M., Pejchal, J., & Schvach, H. (2023).

In an earlier post I reported on a number of apparently plagiarised or self-plagiarised articles by Dr Paul McCrory.

Martin Enserink has just published the third instalment in an ongoing story of strange results and possible → likely → confirmed misconduct in the field of marine biology, and more specifically the purported effects of climate change on the behaviour of f…

Dr Paul McCrory of the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health has been in the news in the past few days.

A few months ago, I discovered that the SAS statistical software package, which is used worldwide by universities and other large organisations to analyse their data, contained—until quite recently—a bug that could result in information that the user thou…

In this post I will discuss a set of 46 articles from the same institution that appear to show severe problems in many journals in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology.

Back in 2017, Dr.

Nitazoxanide (NTZ) is an antiparasitic medication that has been proposed as a possible treatment for Covid-19.

This post appears at the same time as this piece at grftr.news by Jack Lawrence.

Today's topic is this report in Science by Martin Enserink about possible scientific misconduct in a series of studies that investigate the relation between increasing CO2 levels (causing a decrease in the pH of the world's oceans) and the behaviour of fi…

In this post I want to discuss why I blog directly about what I see as errors or other problems in scientific articles.

Update 2021-01-27 13:11 UTC: Added the word "apparent" to the post title.

A few days ago I posted this tweet: Germany's COVID-19 cases peaked about 18 days ago, but their deaths are still going up very fast.

One of the recurring topics in this blog over the last couple of years has been self-plagiarism, also known as duplicate publication or text recycling.

In academic publishing, what is the purpose of a journal issuing an "Expression of Concern" (EoC)?

Regular readers of this blog may recall seeing a number of posts about the remarkable research of Dr Nicolas Guéguen.

Just over a month ago, I published these two blog posts.