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Celebrating 30 years of the Space Shuttle Program. Designed by Adam Chen, edited by William Wallack and George Gonzalez.
Reviewed by John Timmer
October 7, 2012
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The New York Times, October 1, 2012
Last year the journal Nature reported an alarming increase in the number of retractions of scientific papers — a tenfold rise in the previous decade, to more than 300 a year across the scientific literature.
Other studies have suggested that most of these retractions resulted from honest errors. But a deeper analysis of retractions, being published this week, challenges that comforting assumption.
In the new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, two scientists and a medical communications consultant analyzed 2,047 retracted papers in the biomedical and life sciences. They found that misconduct was the reason for three-quarters of the retractions for which they could determine the cause.
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The Kalinka Affair: A Father’s Hunt for His Daughter’s Killer. By Joshua Hammer. Published by The Atavist.
Reviewed by Deborah Blum
September 25, 2012
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A Medieval Bestiary. Published by eBook Treasures.
Reviewed by Maggie Koerth-Baker
September 20, 2012
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What’s Killing Us: A Practical Guide to Understanding Our Biggest Global Health Problems. By Alanna Shaikh. Published by TED Books, 2012.
Reviewed by Tom Levenson
August 23, 2012
Continue reading “Death and Other Options: How To Think (Hopefully!) About Global Health”