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Editor Authored 58 Percent of Conference Papers, Publisher Retracts Them All

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Over 90 Percent of Scientists Admit to Questionable Research Behaviors

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Why Animal Research Needs a New Communication Strategy

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Nearly Ten Percent of Cancer Papers Flagged as Potentially Fake

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138 Case Reports in a Pediatric Medical Journal Turned Out to be Fake

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Turmoil Erupts at Wiley Journal Whose Editor is Cited in Over Half of its Papers

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A History of HeLa Cells: How the Immortal Cells Advanced Biomedical Science

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Why Data Integrity Is an Ethical Obligation, Not Just a Scientific One

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Career Chat: Life As a Forensic Biologist

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Bioethicist Alta Charo Addresses the Importance of Ethics in Research and Therapies

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Pregnancy Cravings for Prime Numbers? Fake Paper Scams Predatory Publishers

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Ghosted by a Journal, Author Issues Her Own Retraction

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Prolonged GLP-1 Exposure Remodels Gene Expression in the Pancreas by Flipping a Molecular Switch

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Editors Mass Resign from Elsevier Journal After Editor-in-Chief Let Go

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Cockroach Milk Proteins Churn Out an Ig Nobel Win

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