Trust in science needs researchers, journals and institutions to correct the scientific record quickly and transparently when ...
Some students are still mentioning their race or immigrant status as the Trump administration cracks down on diversity ...
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There’s sloppy science, and there’s AI slop science. In an ironic twist of fate, beleaguered AI researchers are warning that the field is being choked by a deluge of shoddy academic papers written ...
Never heard of the Journal of International Relief or the International Humanitarian Digital Repository? That’s because they don’t exist. But that’s not stopping some of the world’s most popular ...
A farmer drives a tractor down a row in a green field and fertilizes with pesticides using a long attachment on the front of the tractor. More than 25 years after it published a study finding that use ...
A widely cited study on economic damage from climate change was retracted Wednesday following criticism from peers. The research, published last year in the prestigious journal Nature, projected that ...
The CDC has instructed its scientists to retract or pause the publication of any research manuscript being considered by any medical or scientific journal, not merely its own internal periodicals, ...
Will your favorite sycophantic AI helper be servile forever? Maybe not. New research from the AI safety group Palisade Research suggests that some top AI models could be developing “survival drives,” ...
This paper critically evaluates the Urban Institute’s Land Use Reforms and Housing Costs (2024) study, which aims to link zoning reforms to housing supply using machine-learning analysis of newspaper ...
According to a report by The Washington Post, scientists with the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water were ordered by "political appointees" to stop work on studies that were headed for ...
On September 5, 2025, we published a research paper concluding that VantageScore 4.0 overstated its performance claims. We identified key methodological flaws in VantageScore’s analysis and, after ...