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In the past month, PLOS ONE and Transplantation have retracted fifteen studies by authors in China because of suspicions that the authors may have used organs from executed prisoners.

At turns lauded and vilified, the humble egg is an example of everything wrong with nutrition studies.

Global effort to combat research misconduct gathers pace.

One recent case, in which a scientist claims his submitted manuscript was rejected despite a lack of actual plagiarism, highlights the limitations of automated tools.

How a simple nudge can improve health and nutrition reporting. The Twitter account retweets science articles, adding “IN MICE.”

All researchers should strive to improve the quality, relevance and reliability of their work.

Academics and editors need to stop pretending that software always catches recycled text and start reading more carefully, says Debora Weber-Wulff.

Research needs an authoritative forum to hash out collective problems, argue C. K. Gunsalus, Marcia K. McNutt and colleagues.

The newish 'quarterly review of science' sometimes muddies the waters between science and political ideology. It is funded by Peter Thiel.

Concern for and interest in research integrity has increased significantly during recent decades, both in academic and in policy discourse.

Scientific journals' creation of dedicated positions for rooting out misconduct before publication comes amid growing awareness of such issues.

Almost 90% of academic clinical trials are not reported promptly to European registry.

The pharmaceutical industry gets a bad press. Some of the criticism is surely deserved, but the widespread notion that academia is morally superior is ridiculous, says Richard Grant.

The new version of the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity will be published today.

The battle for evidence-based reason may have to move elsewhere, says Jenny Rohn.

Scientists have the public’s trust, so the swell of fake news shouldn’t put them off communicating, says CEO of Science Media Centre.

How the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology became a multimillion dollar organization promoting bullshit science through fake conferences and journals.

Granting bodies have to do more to stop corporate money from distorting science, says Linda Bauld.

University manipulated test scores for more than a decade to ensure more men became doctors.

An ambitious project that set out nearly 5 years ago to replicate experiments from 50 high-impact cancer biology papers, but gradually shrank that number, now expects to complete just 18 studies.

Oaths have their value, but checklists will help put principles into practice.

What are researchers to do when they lose confidence in their previously published work? A new project has an answer. Will it help the replication crisis?

The country’s highest executive body issues clear guidelines for dealing with scientific misconduct.

New national guidelines spell out punishment for plagiarism, fabrication of data and research conclusions, ghostwriting and peer review manipulation.

In June 2017, PSI was made aware of allegations that members of its staff had submitted an article containing aspects of scientific misconduct to a scientific journal.  A preliminary review by experts showed that the allegations raised were solid.

A bit over 20 years ago, in February 1998, Andrew Wakefield published his infamous article in Lancet, which was eventually retracted in 2010. He stated that "onset of behavioural symptoms was associated, by the parents, with measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination in eight of the 12 children."