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How rightwing groups used junk science to get an abortion case before the US supreme court

Anti-abortion researchers ‘exaggerate’ and ‘obfuscate’ in their scientific papers – but by the time they’re published, it’s too late

Published: 23 Mar 2024

Science Weekly
Mistakes, fakes and a giant rat penis: why are so many science papers being retracted?

Podcast

Published: 22 Feb 2024
‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point

Published: 3 Feb 2024

Sheer stupidity is a threat to our scientific progress

Letters: Prof AM Celâl Şengör, Damian Pattinson and Jack Whalen respond to Giorgio Parisi’s article about how the world lost its trust in scientists

Published: 29 Sep 2023

Published: 29 Sep 2023

Science Weekly
Is it the beginning of the end for scientific publishing? – podcast

More than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal. Ian Sample speaks to Hannah Devlin about the lucrative business of scientific publishing and hears from Prof Chris Chambers about what was behind the recent mass resignation

Podcast

Published: 16 May 2023
‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees

Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon

Published: 7 May 2023

Science journals ban listing of ChatGPT as co-author on papers

Some publishers also banning use of bot in preparation of submissions but others see its adoption as inevitable

Published: 26 Jan 2023

The Audio Long Read
From the archive: Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? – podcast

This week, from 2017: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell

Podcast

Published: 20 Apr 2022
The big idea
The big idea: should we get rid of the scientific paper?

As a format it’s slow, encourages hype, and is difficult to correct. A radical overhaul of publishing could make science better

Published: 11 Apr 2022

Paywalls block scientific progress. Research should be open to everyone

Jason Schmitt

To democratise scholarly publishing, individual academics need to take action

Published: 28 Mar 2019

Published: 28 Mar 2019

Knowledge is part of the rip-off economy

Letters: Jonathan Spencer highlights how academic publishers profit, and Margaret Beetham criticises the ‘taxes on knowledge’

Published: 16 Sep 2018

Published: 16 Sep 2018
Who are the real pirates in academic publishing?

Published: 14 Sep 2018

Published: 14 Sep 2018
Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free

George Monbiot

Published: 13 Sep 2018

Published: 13 Sep 2018

Predatory publishers: the journals that churn out fake science

A Guardian investigation, in collaboration with German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk, reveals the open-access publishers who accept any article submitted for a fee

Published: 10 Aug 2018

Political science
Elsevier are corrupting open science in Europe

Jon Tennant

Elsevier - one of the largest and most notorious scholarly publishers - are monitoring Open Science in the EU on behalf of the European Commission. Jon Tennant argues that they cannot be trusted.

Published: 29 Jun 2018

Published: 29 Jun 2018

Head quarters
Mindless eating: is there something rotten behind the research?

A storm of retractions, corrections, data irregularities and controversy over duplicate publication are destroying the credibility of Cornell’s Food and Brand Lab. It’s time for the university to be open about what’s going on

Published: 16 Feb 2018

Notes & Theories
'Professors eat their own young': how competition can stifle good science

There is often more pressure for scientists to work against each other than together – but why?

Published: 29 Jan 2018

Plagiarism is rife in academia, so why is it rarely acknowledged?

Anonymous academic

When a professor ripped off my work in a journal, they escaped unpunished. How can we expect academic originality from students if we don’t uphold it?

Published: 27 Oct 2017

Published: 27 Oct 2017

Head quarters
Clinical trials revolution could change the future of medical research

With the stakes in clinical research so high, today sees the launch of a new and much-needed way of reporting clinical trials

Published: 24 Aug 2017
Head quarters
The human cost of the pressures of postdoctoral research

A paper on conformal algebra has recently caused a stir on social media. Not because of the science, but rather the heartfelt plea in the acknowledgements

Published: 10 Aug 2017

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