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Four papers from a team of researchers in Japan have received expressions of concern for overlap in control samples, data, study design and statistical analyses. The publisher of the articles says it has closed its investigation.  The notices were published in PLOS One from July 31 to August 3 to inform readers of “study design concerns” and to provide additional …

In court documents filed on August 20, Phypers alleged that Richards had him sign adoption papers for her now 14-year-old daughter, but “failed to file them.” Aaron Phypers is accusing ex-wife Denise Richards of never finalizing the adoption of her youngest daughter, Eloise. In court documents filed on August 20 and obtained by PEOPLE, Phypers alleged that Richards had him …

This January, Byeongjun Park, a researcher in artificial intelligence (AI), received a surprising e-mail. Two researchers from India told him that an AI-generated manuscript had used methods from one of his papers, without credit. Park looked up the manuscript. It wasn’t formally published, but had been posted online (see go.nature.com/45pdgqb) as one of a number of papers generated by a …

Trump Administration Minimizes Summit Papers Left in Hotel  The New York Times Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit  NPR Printout identifying gift, menu at Trump-Putin summit left at hotel printer  New York Post Meeting locations, a statue for Putin: Details of Alaska summit were left on hotel printer  USA Today White House Responds to Trump-Putin Documents Being …

Pieces of card can break a MacBook Air display – Image Credit: TikTok/Classicheidi If put anything in between your MacBook screen and keyboard — a screen protector, a hard crumb, a camera guard, anything — it’s just a matter of time until you open it up to a shattered display. Here’s why, and how much it will cost to repair. …

Fraudulent scientific research is now being produced and published on a large scale, with some unethical researchers colluding with unethical editors to attain the prestige that comes with publication, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Large groups of editors and authors appear to have cooperated in what it called “the tide of …

SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS exist to do one thing: provide accurate, peer-reviewed reports of new research to an interested audience. But according to a paper published in PNAS on August 4th, that lofty goal is badly compromised. Scientific fraud, its authors conclude, happens on a massive scale and is growing quickly. In fact, though the number of scientific articles doubles every 15 …

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds  The New York Times Scientific Journals Can’t Keep Up With the Flood of Fake Papers From Paper Mills – WSJ  The Wall Street Journal Criminal gangs fake science papers for money  The Telegraph Fighting coordinated publication fraud is like ‘emptying an overflowing bathtub with a spoon,’ study coauthor says  Retraction Watch Organized scientific fraud is growing …

Sneaky scientists: hidden AI prompts found in papers  Boing Boing Researchers are using AI for peer reviews — and finding ways to cheat it  The Washington Post Scientists reportedly hiding AI text prompts in academic papers to receive positive peer reviews  The Guardian Some Researchers Are Hiding Secret Messages in Their Papers, but They’re Not Meant for Humans  Smithsonian Magazine Sneaky stuff  Komando.com Source link

It was, at first glance, just another scientific paper, one of the millions published every year, and destined to receive little to no attention outside the arcane field of biological signalling in stem cells destined to become sperm. But soon after the paper was published online, in the journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, it found a global audience. …