The highest-profile research is heavily influenced by cultural forces and career incentives that are not necessarily aligned with the dispassionate pursuit of truth.
Category: Peer review
Science Proves Isaac Newton Doesn’t Even Break Into Top 8,000 All Time Greatest Scientists
These findings provide conclusive evidence that citations can be bought in bulk, and highlight the need to look beyond citation counts.
The Entire Push To Halt New Natural Gas Exports Traces Back To One Ivy League Prof And His Shaky Study
“First, you allege a problem exists without any scientific basis. Then, you identify a ‘study’ with findings you like that can be used to form a basis for policy advocacy,…
X Users Didn’t Like a Paper’s Tone and Findings, So They Got It Rejected
At Frontiers in Psychology, it seems that users on X are now part of the peer review process.
Climate Change Roundtable 79: The Failure of Peer Review in Climate Science 1 pm Eastern Time.
This episode of Climate Change Roundtable titled, “The failure of peer review: Climate is Beholden to Bullying and Bad Decisions” delves into the shadowy and competitive world of climate journal…
Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game: A Deep Dive into the Academic Publishing Business
Brown makes it difficult to ignore the decades worth of abundant observations that mainstream climate change science is not just politicized, it is big business. And elite journals are in…
The Rise and Fall of Peer Review
For the last 60 years or so, science has been running an experiment on itself.
Hindawi and Wiley to Retract over 500 Papers Linked to Peer Review Rings
It is increasingly apparent to all involved in safeguarding and investigating issues of research integrity that closing rings down at one publisher can simply move the problem to others. We…
Peer Reviewed Science Journal Report: ‘Electric Utility Industry’s Role in Promoting Climate Denial, Doubt, And Delay
If I had been permitted to fact-check review this paper, I would have barred it for publication because it contains a minimum of six major errors
The Absurdity of Peer Review
Does it catch fraud or manipulations of data? No, patently not: peer reviewers are not omniscient, so they cannot divine made-up data, nor can they check all the outputs of…
Resplandy et al. Part 5: Final outcome
From Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on September 25, 2019 by niclewis | 24 Comments By Nic Lewis The editors of Nature have retracted the Resplandy et al. paper.…
The Curious Case of the Southern Ocean and the Peer-Reviewed Journal
By Mike Jonas The Paper What seems like a very long time ago, I downloaded surface temperature data for the Southern Oceans to see if I could find, and learn…
HUGE pushback on science paywalls – University of California cancels Elsevier subscription
Breaking: UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access to publicly funded research Library Communications February 28, 2019 TO: The UC Berkeley academic community FROM: Paul Alivisatos, Executive…
Scientific sting operation shows how fake science garbage gets published in peer-reviewed journals
Long-time WUWT reader “Latitude” writes: Academic journals are caught up in massive hoax involving 20 FAKE papers on ‘dog rape culture’, ‘a conceptual penis’ and re-printing a version of MEIN…
The fight against fraud in peer review
We’ve all heard about fake news. Now we have deceptive scholarship. Derek Pyne, a Thompson Rivers University economist, is among the global academics determined to expose deceptive academic journals, sometimes at…
Ooops: “lid blown off” the trustworthiness of scientific peer review
Global warming alarmists suffered a big hit this week in their effort to deify shoddy “peer-reviewed” climate papers. Stanford University medical professor John Ioannidis, in an interview with Agence France…
Consensus Climatology in a Nutshell: Betrayal of Integrity
Guest essay by Pat Frank Today’s offering is a morality tale about the clash of honesty with self-interest, of integrity with income, and of arrogance with ignorance. I’m bringing out…
A skeptic attempts to break the ‘pal review’ glass ceiling in climate modeling
Propagation of Error and the Reliability of Global Air Temperature Projections Guest essay by Pat Frank Regular readers at Anthony’s Watts Up With That will know that for several years,…
George Will: Academia may now be beyond satire
Note to readers: This Sunday column by George Will appeared in my local newspaper this week, and I thought it relevant to repeat the headline and excerpts of it here,…
An example of "squeaky clean" climate science
I have often noted that the number of climate scientists (including both real-and self proclaimed) around the world is quite small, and those with certain areas of expertise, such as…
Feds go after science journals for deceptive practices
FTC Charges Academic Journal Publisher OMICS Group Deceived Researchers Complaint Alleges Company Made False Claims, Failed To Disclose Steep Publishing Fees FOR RELEASE August 26, 2016 The Federal Trade Commission…
Another peer reviewed science failure
From the Ed Begley Jr. department: “If these scientists have done something wrong, it will be found out and their peers will determine it,” insisted Ed. “Don’t get your information…
Study demonstrates a pattern in 'how scientists lie about their data'
From Stanford University: Stanford researchers uncover patterns in how scientists lie about their data When scientists falsify data, they try to cover it up by writing differently in their published…
Peer review is broken – Springer announces 64 papers retracted due to fake reviews
Science publishing giant Springer, with over 2900 journals, has announced on its website that 64 articles published in 10 of its journals are being retracted. Editorial staff found evidence of fake…