Safeguarding Open Science from exploitative practices

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS Medicine, December 2025

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#OpenScienceWeek 🔓 In this Perspective, Danny Maupin, Matt Spick & Nophar Geifman argue that while open data & transparency are a bulwark against unethical activities, freely available data can be exploited, & set out the case for the use of safeguarding…

Risk at wider level - loss of public trust, which will impact use of personal level data to perform research. There is evidence indicating that the data has been used for unapproved research journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

RP @dmaupin.bsky.social: In light of the recent UK Biobank news, I'd like to share our previous work in PLOS Med doi.org/10.1371/jour... where we briefly highlighted some discrepancies in UKBB. I'm not sure we knew for sure the data was compromised to t…

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