Massive editorial failures harm authors and readers
Small Pond Science,
Have you heard of the newly published misogynist paper in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine? Here’s the start of the…
Suppressing Science at Brown University
Evolution News & Views,
What happened to Lisa Littman at Brown offers the most recent evidence of how scientists are pressured not to stray beyond…
Creationists list the top ten stories of 2016
Sandwalk,
Intelligent Design Creationists are still trying to promote their views. They consistently claim to have positive evidence of…
A mão de deus e o open access
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Há algumas semanas um artigo científico, publicado em 5 de janeiro deste ano, tomou conta do Twitter, Facebook e rodas de…
The aftermath of “the Creator” controversy at PLoS ONE
Hedda - Higher Education Development Association,
In the beginning of March, social media erupted with a controversy around an article published in the open-access journal PLoS…
SUFB 135: Ocean Talk Friday
Speak Up for Blue,
Our first story comes from Southern Fried Science, where Andrew David Thaler provides some context for the “Creator” manuscript…
A light touch or hands on? Monday morning quarterbacking a retraction
NeuroDojo,
Things moved fast last week. I blogged about a paper with strange references to “The Creator”. Within hours, the story exploded…
From a Biologist, Common Sense on That Censored PLOS ONE Paper
Evolution News & Views,
Deep-sea biologist Andrew David Thaler comments on the decision by PLOS ONE to retract a peer-reviewed paper on the…
O tym, jak usunięto Stwórcę z publikacji naukowej.
NeuroBigos,
…czyli o kiepskim angielskim i darwinistycznych faszystach. Jeśli naukowcy akurat nie są w swoich laboratoriach, często można…
This Paper Should Not Have Been Retracted: #HandofGod highlights the worst aspects of science twitter
Southern Fried Science,
I really didn’t want to care about this paper, at all. When news broke Wednesday afternoon that a paper in PLOS One referenced…
The hand of god
Language Log,
Article in ScienceAlert today (3/4/16): "Scientists are freaking out over a new paper that says our hands were designed by God…
Looks Like PLOS ONE Screwed Up the “Creator” Retraction, Too
Lost in Transcription,
Okay, that “Creator” paper has officially been retracted by PLOS ONE (previously, and here). Based on what we now know, that…
Hand of God paper retracted: PLOS ONE “could not stand by the pre-publication assessment”
For Better Science,
A paper with reference to “The Creator” in PLOS One, titled “Biomechanical characteristics of Hand Coordination in Grasping…
Why One Published Paper Is Causing The Scientific Community To Freak Out
I Fucking Love Science,
Editor's…
Published Paper References 'Creator' – Ignites Major Backlash, Retraction
Laboratory Equipment News,
PLOS ONE has retracted a paper originally published in January after it received a barrage of reader criticism for using the…
Poll: Should “the Creator” paper have been retracted?
Retraction Watch,
The scientific community has been abuzz the last few days after some readers discovered language mentioning “the Creator” in a…
Creationist article Article with creationist language published in Plos-One
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science,
Dan Gianola pointed me to this one. It’s an article by Ming-Jin Liu, Cai-Hua Xiong, Le Xiong, and Xiao-Lin Huang with the…
Major screw up: “Hand of God” article gets published in respected journal
ZME Science,
In what has to be one of the biggest blunders of science publishing, PLoS ONE has published an article about the human hand…
Pulling a fast one: getting unscientific nonsense into scientific journals. (or, how PLOS ONE f*#ked up)
The EEB & Flow,
The basis of all of science is that we can explain the natural world through observation and experiments. Unanswered questions…
“Creator” Paper Retracted at PLOS One
Lost in Transcription,
Well, true to their word, the editorial staff at PLOS ONE acted quickly to review that paper from January that interpreted…
Censorship in Real Time -- PLOS ONE Retracts "Proper Design by the Creator" Paper
Evolution News & Views,
That was fast. The sound of one hand clapping? Now, it's no hands. Besieged by a furious mob of censors, the editors at the peer…
PLOS ONE retracting paper that cites “the Creator”
Retraction Watch,
PLOS ONE has retracted a paper published one month ago after readers began criticizing it for mentioning “the Creator.” The…
Mob with Pitchforks Forms as Science Journal PLOS ONE Acknowledges "Proper Design by the Creator"
Evolution News & Views,
This would seem to bear out a remark by Chinese paleontologist J.Y. Chen, recounted in Darwin's Doubt, "In China we can…
Science Journal Publishes Creationist Paper, Science Community Flips Out
io9,
Open access science journal PLOS One is once again under scrutiny after a Creationist-minded research paper about the evolution…
A Science Journal Published An Article Mentioning "The Creator" And People Are Not Happy
BuzzFeed - Latest,
The paper’s authors wrote that hands show “the proper design of the Creator.” The paper, titled "Biomechanical…
La mano de dios
Gene Repórter,
A PLOS ONE é um periódico respeitado, o que torna a publicação de um artigo criacionista mais espantoso.Detalhes do caso podem…
The Dart of the Vacuum Miracle Hit the Distant Bullseye
Future and Cosmos,
Perhaps the biggest mystery in physics is why the vacuum of space has so little energy in it. Although it may seem intuitive to…
“Mystery of the Creator’s Invention” at PLOS One
Lost in Transcription,
Oops! PLOS One published a paper in January with the title “Biomechanical Characteristics of Hand Coordination in Grasping…
Intelligent design makes it into Plos One
The Panda's Thumb,
We have just received an e-mail from one of the Panda’s Thumb crew to the effect that a paper “demonstrating” the intelligent…
Hands are the “proper design by the Creator,” PLOS ONE paper suggests
Retraction Watch - duplicate deactivated,
A paper about the biomechanics of human hands published last month in PLOS ONE is raising some questions on Twitter, after…
PLoS One Publishes Creationist Paper from Four Chinese Authors
Homolog.us – Bioinformatics,
A rather curious paper titled “Biomechanical Characteristics of Hand Coordination in Grasping Activities of Daily Living” got…
A handy new Intelligent Design paper
NeuroDojo,
Back on January 5, PLOS ONE published an Intelligent Design paper containing numerous references to “the Creator.” Judging from…