Showing posts with label fraud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fraud. Show all posts
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Enhancing Scientific Integrity in the Social and Behavioral Sciences--Nominate an Expert for an NAS workshop

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  The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are soliciting nominations for a workshop on  Enhancing Scientific Integrity...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Fake science at scale, via organized paper mills (in PNAS and the NYT)

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 Here's a recent paper from PNAS, analyzing the organized activity of paper mills producing fraudulent papers. The entities enabling sci...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Doping in the Tour de France: new dimensions

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 There was a time when only riders had to be tested for doping, but advances in electric motors and batteries mean that bikes too can be sus...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Internet advertising: affiliate marketing scams, evolving

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 Ben Edelman announces a return to his roots, detecting advertising fraud on the internet. (Remember when malware would flash unwanted page...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

2024 Shkreli Awards, for profiteering and dysfunction in healthcare

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  Here are the 2024 Shkreli Awards , the Lown Institute’ s top ten list of the worst examples of profiteering and dysfunction in healthcare,...
Monday, May 20, 2024

The labor market for OnlyFans chatters

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 Here's a story by a professional writer and journalist, who appears to be a middle-aged dad, about his efforts to find and then master ...
Saturday, March 30, 2024

Fraud in physics? Room temp superconductors, again

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  It should come as no surprise that it's not only social sciences that can be roiled by accusations of research misconduct . Here's...
Friday, January 19, 2024

Incentives and mis-incentives in science (Freakonomics part II)

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  Freakonomics has a second post on fraud in science, and you can listen or read the transcript here: Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? Two quo...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

"Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia?" Freakonomics interviews Max Bazerman and others

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Below is the latest Freakonomics podcast (and transcript), on fraud in academia.  Those most in the headlines weren't available to be in...
Friday, September 15, 2023

Regulating research and research misconduct

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  Peer review is a clunky process that often misfires, but it helps to keep up the quality of published research. Much the same can be said ...
Monday, August 30, 2021

Symposium on Research Integrity: Replicability and outright malfeasance. November 24 in Berlin

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  Research integrity has been in the news lately, concerning low levels of replicability in some kinds of research, together with more inten...
Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Fake rhino horn

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When is it ok to fight one repugnant transaction with another?  The New York Times has a story of fighting the (repugnant) sales of rhinoce...
Thursday, June 6, 2019

Someone is impersonating me on LinkedIn

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An alert MIT grad student received a LinkedIn request that appeared to be from me, except not quite, and was kind enough to let me know. (I...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Conference housing pirates--the (criminal) market for hotel rooms

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Here's a scam I hadn't encountered before. I will be speaking at a transplant conference in February, and last week my phone rang...
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Saturday, July 11, 2015

Cheating in China on (American) college admissions

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Inside Higher Ed has the story:  In China, No Choice But to Cheat? July 9, 2015  By Elizabeth Redden "EUGENE, Ore. ...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Citation collaboration

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"Impact factors" have become important to journals, and efforts to manipulate them come to light from time to time. Here's a ...
Monday, September 9, 2013

Are behavioral results more likely to be exaggerated than biological results?

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That's the claim (reported in the blog Retraction Watch ) of "a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Someone was pretending to be me on Google+ (a story with a happy ending)

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The internet is home to a variety of scams, and some of them involve trying to manipulate Google search results. So I was surprised and dism...