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Credit - Illustration by Lorenzo Gritti for TIME. A few months after posting a message on Goodreads about the imminent release of a new book, Indie author Beth Black woke up to an all-caps ransom ...
The grievance studies affair was the project of a team of three authors— Peter Boghossian, James A. Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose —to highlight what they saw as poor scholarship and erosion of standards in several academic fields. Taking place over 2017 and 2018, their project entailed submitting bogus papers to academic journals on topics ...
Ranga P. Dias (US), a physicist at the University of Rochester, was in 2024 found by an investigatory committee to have committed "research misconduct" related to his work on alleged superconducting materials. [262] [263] A 2023 report in Science noted that at least 21% of Dias's 2013 doctoral thesis had been copied from uncredited sources. [264]
Think of, say, intelligent design, Holocaust denial, ancient astronaut hypothesis, homoeopathy, the anti-vaccine movement, astrology, or climate change scepticism. Because there are different forms of pseudoscience, one cannot rule out the possibility that different criteria are needed to distinguish them from science.
The strip search phone call scam was a series of incidents, mostly occurring in rural areas of the United States, that extended over a period of at least ten years, starting in 1994. The incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police officer, and then convincing managers to conduct strip searches of ...
A reconstruction of the skull purportedly belonging to the Piltdown Man, a long-lasting case of scientific misconduct. Scientific misconduct is the violation of the standard codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behavior in the publication of professional scientific research.
July 9, 2024 at 12:20 PM. NEW YORK (AP) — New York University has settled a lawsuit filed last November by three Jewish students who said they had been subjected to “pervasive acts of hatred ...
Like New Zealand, Australia has uncovered widespread abuse of children in state and religious care. A Royal Commission investigated the issue, reporting in 2017 that there had been tens of ...