A Scrumptiously Quick Retraction
A dog's breakfast struck from the scientific record.
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We Need More Great Journalism. So I'm Building Something New.
Excuse me this brief aside for a side mission announcement
Unbreaking a Sepsis Breakthrough
A small victory, but a bigger defeat?
A Scrumptious Error at Scientific Reports
What does a dog's breakfast taste like?
Darcy & Roy: Fake Conferences, Fake Committees, Fake Peer Review?
Further exploring the strange situation at Darcy & Roy Press
Who are Darcy & Roy?
And do they have anything to do with Siegfried and Roy?
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button's Nutraceuticals
Has a "groundbreaking" study PROVED reverse-ageing is possible?
More Than Homo Sapiens
The end of the line for our fish mystery... for now.
Episode II: Revenge of the Fish
The fishtery solved!... or the fishtery deepens!
Fishy Text in Research Articles: Fraud or Fault?
A reel big mystery as a strange new species of error appears in major journals
To Snare A Shonk
A case study in journalism and scientific integrity research
Australia Did It ... Now What?
A creeping feeling of dread, mostly.
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Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
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Are You in Australia's Top 250 Researchers? Who Cares!
(Yet) An(other) argument for science journalism in the newsroom.
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Hitler’s Ball(s)
Learnings from Hitler's DNA study: Penis is big business.
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Tom Brady Dog
Oh my dog
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The New Science Journalism
A conversation-in-part and, maybe, a survival strategy
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Read the Damn Paper
100,000 'Addicts' vs. Mainstream Media
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What The **** Is The Point Of Us Then?
Are we better than the machines or not?
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do all zombie stories go to heaven?
and do they have scientific papers up there?
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An Australian Science Journalism Outlet Started Publishing AI-generated Articles — You Won't Believe What Happened Next
If you've been paying attention, you totally will.
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Can you upload ChatGPT to a human brain?
A giant leap... into a piledriver.
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The Mammoth Meatball Marketing Stunt
That's a-spicy meatball!
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When The "Vaccines Cause Autism" Debate Meets The Voice of a Generation
How powerful narratives and numbers can sound legit, even when they're shonky.