Anyone planning to watch "Pirate Master"? It's a new reality TV show on CBS where cameras follow 16 people as they live on a pirate ship and search the Caribbean for clues to find $1 million. I didn't even know the show existed until my online search for news brought me to the homepage of one contestant, linkurl:John Lakness;http://www.cbs.com/primetime/pirate_master/bios/john.shtml -- whose occupation is listed as "scientist/Chippendale dancer." Relax, ladies -- he'

After determining the article was "duplicated," Fertility and Sterility bars corresponding author, but not other co-authors, for three years

A South Korean panel that investigated a pulled wolf cloning study ruled today (April 27) that the research team indeed cloned gray wolves, but committed errors in presenting their findings. The journal Cloning and Stem Cells pulled the study linkurl:earlier this month;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/53065/ after the authors asked to make changes to the text. Stay tuned for more in-depth coverage on Monday.

Journal has yet to take action on allegedly plagiarized paper, and an author accuses a Korean investigating committee of bias

The journal Fertility and Sterility has retracted a linkurl:duplicate paper;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/53061/ about the use of real-time PCR in premature ovarian failure, following a Korean researcher's linkurl:claim;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/52859/ that the work was copied from another paper he co-authored in a Korean journal. The scientist listed on both papers has been barred from contributing to the journal for three years. The paper was retracted because

A study of how various devices fit stokes a debate that includes allegations of bias in NIH funding, misconduct, and ineffectiveness

Scientists continue to scuffle over blame and responsibility, and are taking their grievances to court

In the fallout from a linkurl:major decision;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/home/53051/ by the US patent agency to reject key stem cell patents for embryonic linkurl:stem cell research;http://audio.wnyc.org/bl/bl010507d.mp3 held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has taken to the airwaves to defend the state's intellectual property. In a linkurl:statement;http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/journal_media_detail.asp?locid=19&prid=2583 released yeste

US Patent and Trademark Office sides with scientists and consumer groups who had asked for a review of Wisconsin intellectual property

Last Thursday, owners of Rabbit Island, a linkurl:pristine 36 acre environment;http://www.dkatantarctic.com/RabbitIsland.html off the coast of British Columbia that has taught many budding scientists about natural phenomena, voted to sell the island to the highest bidder. Professor Dennis Kelly of Orange Coast College in California has been taking students to Rabbit Island for years to demonstrate things most collegians only read about in textbooks -- island gigantism in the form of an enormous

Last Wednesday in Alaska, a linkurl:moose charged and downed;http://www.axcessnews.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=13162 a helicopter carrying a wildlife biologist. Neither the pilot nor the biologist were hurt during the attack, but the helicopter suffered damage to its tail rotor, forcing it to land. Sadly, the animal was put down due to its injuries (it got caught in the helicopter's blades). Late last month, a curator of herpetology linkurl:was bitten;http://www.kansas.com/m

Medical Research Council chief Colin Blakemore is stepping down at a time when the UK agency is facing major reforms. linkurl:Blakemore;http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/13002/ said that he decided to leave after his current term expires in September, but his decision has nothing to do with the MRC's linkurl:upcoming;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/24225/ changes -- which include the UK government's decision to reform medical research funding, creating an umbrella s