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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 1d

Dr. Oransky warned of consequences for self-governance failure: "If you don't self-police, if you don't correct the record, if you don't sanction people who commit fraud, [...] someone else will come in and do that. And it very well could be a government that you don't like."

Is Science Retracting Enough Papers?

As paper mills and fraud proliferate, experts warn the retraction rate should reach 2% of published literature—ten times current levels.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 1d

Ah, so Anthropic joins the list of OpenAI & Apple admitting/finally doing the research to discover that their are in-built, "unstoppable by code-fixes"-alone, input-driven flaws with LLMs/DNNs generally, due to the mathematical constraints that govern them: arxiv.org/abs/2510.07192

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Science Surf @wjst.de · 1d

even more issues - long version www.wjst.de/blog/science... and short version at pubpeer.com/publications...

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But let your communication be Yea, yea; Nay, nay. For whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 2d

@cathleenogrady.bwww.science covers the rise of shoddy public health papers for @science.org

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Journals and publishers crack down on research from open health data sets

PLOS, Frontiers, and others announce policies trying to stem the tide of suspect research

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Doctors for America @drsforamerica.bsky.social · 4d

In an extraordinary joint statement, 6 former U.S. Surgeons General warn:
RFK Jr. is "endangering the health of the nation.”

We’ve previously called for RFK Jr.’s resignation, this moment confirms why. Patient health must come before politics.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 8d

The myth of meritocracy inspires the implicit assumption that someone’s degree of success reflects their level of competence and skill.

I think that this is one of the most toxic myths of our time.

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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 8d

Lancet: Offline: Those one should not forgive (Makary and Bhattacharya)

by Richard Horton

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 9d

Read our exclusive interview by @maxkozlov.bsky.social with the ex-CDC director - Susan Monarez -
In which she talks about the importance of the job and the reasons why she was fired

🧪 #CDC #MedSky
@nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired

“I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details.

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Science Surf @wjst.de · 14d

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 14d

President Trump's aid cuts are disproportionately hitting women and girls: forcing them to drop out of school or leading them to die in childbirth or perish from cervical cancer, or to marry as young teens. That's what I found in the field: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...

Opinion | The Tax on Being a Girl

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 15d

50+ scientific societies sign letter objecting to Aug 7 Trump executive order. Letter urges Congress to take action to safeguard integrity of independent peer-review system. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

50+ scientific societies sign letter objecting to Trump executive order

Letter urges Congress to take action to safeguard integrity of independent peer-review system.

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 16d

thescientistpapers.substack.com/p/open-lette...

Open letter to HHMI on their Immediate Access to Research Policy

The following is in response to a letter sent to the HHMI community on September 24, 2025 and refers to HHMI’s new Immediate Access to Research Policy. The original letter appears at the bottom below ...

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Science Surf @wjst.de · 17d

thank you - great ressource for a review

Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 17d

We are now up to 14 journals! New journals:

BMC Anesthesiology
BMC Genomics
BMC Public Health (30,000+ articles!)

Archives are now up to >600K peer review documents for >85K articles. All are available to download on Zenodo!
reeserichardson.blog/datasets

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Science Surf @wjst.de · 17d

Where is the benefit for the authors? www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dramatic increases in redundant publications in the Generative AI era

Background Redundant publication, the practice of submitting the same or substantially overlapping manuscripts multiple times, distorts the scientific record and wastes resources. Since 2022, publicat...

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Science Surf @wjst.de · 18d

„it tended to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity“

Science Magazine @science.org · 18d

Can #ChatGPT help science writers?

In a new Editor's Blog post, Abigail Eisenstadt reports the results of a year-long analysis that explored whether a #LLM had the potential to help writers on our press team clearly and accurately convey information about upcoming research. https://scim.ag/46gVrd6

Can ChatGPT help science writers?

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Science Surf @wjst.de · 18d

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EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say

Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

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Science Surf @wjst.de · 18d

Remembering Drummond Rennie—Champion of Integrity in Science and Scientific Publication jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Remembering Drummond Rennie—Champion of Integrity in Science and Scientific Publication

Drummond Rennie, physician, scientist, editor, climber, tireless promoter of integrity and transparency in science, and mentor to many, died on September 12, 2025, at the age of 89.

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 19d

Ghostwriters frame material and framing matters. Even in science. A great write up on Nick Hopwood’s research into the history of Edwards and Steptoe’s book A Matter of Life. #histmed #histsci

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Science Surf @wjst.de · 19d

Something that I always suspected - a scientific result was always judged by institution and not by merits.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19d

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.

This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review

Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 20d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Science Surf @wjst.de · 20d

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Science Surf @wjst.de · 20d

IMHO a lot of aggregated pseudo information including „sentiments“ of individuals although science is a collaborative enterprise. And well, very basic errors.

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Matthew Herper @matthewherper.bsky.social · 21d

Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible”

In Q&A, Drew Weissman says vast literature shows Covid shots are safe, refutes claims from Retsef Levi
www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...

Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible”

In a Q&A with STAT, Nobel winner Drew Weissman addressed concerns raised about Covid shots at a recent meeting of federal vaccine advisers.

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 21d

I've been reporting in East Africa on the impact of President Trump's USAID cuts, and I find that not only are children dying in large numbers but the pace is accelerating as stockpiles run out and people grow weaker. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Opinion | Trump’s Most Lethal Policy

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