Einstein grad student admits cooking data, settles with Office of Research Integrity

One Friday in January, graduate student Meredyth Forbes was reviewing material for her dissertation with her mentor when she decided to make a confession. She “burst out with a statement that some of the data was fabricated,” said Edward Burns, research integrity officer at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where Forbes worked. It was, Burns told Retraction Watch: a spontaneous, unsolicited, admission […]

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The Enduring Need for Cancer Treatment

INFOGRAFIC_twitter-slice_aim-burden-640x320Danielle Rodin is a Radiation Oncology Resident at the University of Toronto and co-founded the group GlobalRT, which is a group of young professionals dedicated to improving the availability and accessibility of radiation therapy resources

A Day in the Life of an Ammonite

Asteroceras_BWSeveral years ago, back when I was working as the lab and collections manager for the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site in St. George, Utah, we constructed a temporary exhibit with hundreds of ammonite shells

Cold comfort this Christmas for Refugee crisis

Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University and a practicing emergency physician, Chis Tedeschi examines the added medical challenges a harsh winter will bring to already vulnerable refugee populations across Europe and the Middle East.  Across

The Spiral of Life

"How to Build a Human" by Eleanor Lutz (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

“How to Build a Human” by Eleanor Lutz (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)


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Author with three retractions objects to mega-correction following investigation

We’ve uncovered a “mega-correction“ for a 2010 paper in Development, posted as the result of an investigation into the first author which has already led to three retractions. Last year, the Utrecht University investigation into Pankaj Dhonukshe found “manipulation in some form” in four papers, and concluded that he committed a “violation of academic integrity.” The investigation […]

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The MDGs to SDGs trade off : What has been lost and gained for global equity?

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Maja Pleic is a global health and global equity researcher and advocate. Maja holds an MA in Political Economy of International Development and a BA in International Relations and Economics, from the University of Toronto.

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The MDGs to SDGs trade off : What has been lost and gained for global equity?

Maja Pleic is a global health and global equity researcher and advocate. She is currently a research collaborator with the Harvard Global Equity Initiative (HGEI), and project coordinator with the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network, where she leads the Trade … Continue reading »

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My journey from civil war to global health

Dr Jibril Handuleh (centre) is physician, researcher and lecturer with dual nationality in Somalia and Djibouti. After training as a general practitioner in his homeland, he overcame multiple challenges to publish 15 papers over the course of two years, in some … Continue reading »

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Third retraction for GWU biologist as university seeks to dismiss his $8 million lawsuit

Cancer biologist Rakesh Kumar has chalked up another retraction, this time for “identical,” “duplicated,” and “replicated” figures and images. It comes on the heels of a flurry of motions in Kumar’s $8 million lawsuit against his employer, George Washington University, for breach of contract and emotional distress because it removed him as department chair last year and […]

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