Since editor and physician Ivan Oransky and science writer Adam Marcus launched Retraction Watch in 2010, the blog cataloging retracted articles in science journals has drawn a lot of attention, and had more fodder than it can keep up with.
Now, thanks to a two-year grant from the MacArthur Foundation, Retraction Watch is going to expand from a scrappy watchdog to a full-fledged monitoring program that will catalog nearly all retractions issued by major journals in a database, and do deeper analysis of the root causes.
Related! Implausible Results from the Use of Invalid Methods
Outstanding.
Who’d of thought the act of calling “bullshit” on scientific endeavors would be such a growth industry?
I posted the following on the Philanthropy article;
One has to wonder how far the many misrepresented social creations will have been established without the support of indifferent to accuracy media support. The reach of this expanded effort on accountability may become the “Scopes” of the scientific as well as the social academia.
Take Al Gore David Suzuki and the various eco-wackos and media scum rats to task for this climate change poppycock
“thanks to a two-year grant from the MacArthur Foundation, Retraction Watch is going to expand from a scrappy watchdog to a full-fledged monitoring program that will catalog nearly all retractions issued by major journals in a database, and do deeper analysis of the root causes. ”
We will see.
The MacArthur Foundation shovels money by the truck-load to some of the most notorious eco-parasites.
The MacArthur Foundation shovels money by the truck-load to some of the most notorious eco-parasites.
Posted by: Jamie MacMaster on December 27, 2014 12:01 PM | Reply
“We’ll give you all this lovely money. All you have to do is to ignore fraudulent science in the climate arena.” You don’t suppose?
What’s wrong with Peer Review?
See HERE, and also HERE for a brief intro.