Tag: fraud

Making mistakes and wrong answer concept. Hand wiping math formula off blackboard in classroom at school. Student or teacher correcting incorrect calculation on chalkboard.

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Date
September 26, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Mathematics
Tagged
, ethics, fraud, funding, German Mathematical Society, mathematicians, mathematics, metrics, misconduct, rankings, sciences, Tibi Puiu, ZME Science}

Now It’s Science Fraud in…Mathematics?

_{Science and Culture
September 26, 2025

Ethics, Mathematics

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Most lay people would not think that mathematics is a particularly safe place to do fraud. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 29, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Metascience
Science Reporting
Tagged
, accuracy, Alexander Goldberg, artificial intelligence, Blind Man’s Bluff, Christine Coughlin, Dalmeet Singh Chawla, data, data science, evidence, Evolution News, fakery, fallibility, file drawer problem, fraud, generative ai, Gollum Effect, integrity, knowledge, Leipzig, Nancy M. P. King, Nature (journal), objectivity, peer review, PLOS ONE, PNAS, politicization, post-trust, predatory journals, pseudoscience, public trust, Ralf Mrowka, replicability, scientific publishing, scientific reliability, scientists, suppressed evidence, The Conversation, transparency, Wittenberg}

How the “Scientific Community” Undermines Its Own Trustworthiness

_{David Coppedge
May 29, 2025

Ethics, Metascience, Science Reporting

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The “file drawer problem” leads invariably to biased reporting. It refers to scientists deciding not to report negative results. Read More ›

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Date
April 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Planetology
Tagged
, American Council for Science and Health, Anil Potti, Cameron English, chemistry, conservatives, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, distrust, Duke University, EPA, fraud, funding, government, Harvard University, Inspector Clouseau, Journal of the American Medical Association, Mount Sinai Hospital, National Institute on Aging, Parkinson’s disease, pesticides, Proxima Centauri, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Samuel Gandy, Science (journal), taxpayers, Wall Street Journal, Woo-Suk Hwang, ZME Science}

Should Science Be Publicly Funded at All?

_{Science and Culture
April 25, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Planetology

5}

Waste, futility, and fraud are too frequent outcomes of taxpayer funding. Private funding could well be more intelligently directed. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeoraptor, cheetahs, China, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Francisco Ayala, fraud, junk science, New World, Pleistocene, PNAS, Russia, Science (journal), skull}

Fossil Friday: The Supposed Oldest Cheetah Was Yet Another Fraud

_{Günter Bechly
June 16, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

3}

Even before the publication, the Chinese scientists Deng Tao and Qiu Zhanxiang had revealed the skull to be a crude forgery. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 9, 2023

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Geology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeoraptor, Fossil Friday (series), fraud, Himalayas, India, microfossils, Piltdown Man, scandal, The World, whistleblowers}

Fossil Friday: The Gupta Scandal

_{Günter Bechly
June 9, 2023

Archaeology, Evolution, Geology, Paleontology

5}

The greatest scientific fraud of the 20th century is not so well known outside of professional paleontologist circles. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
November 3, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Assembly Theory, bacteria, Cambridge University Press, design detection, Elisabeth Bik, fraud, intelligence, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Lee Cronin, New York Times, pattern, probability, Retraction Crisis, Sara Walker, specification, Twitter, William A. Dembski}

Design Detection in the New York Times — The Issue of Science Fraud

_{Paul Nelson
November 3, 2022

Intelligent Design, Science

3}

When the pincer closes around a pattern, intelligent causation is uniquely implicated. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 30, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, autism, biotechnology, brain, depression, fraud, funding, measles, mumps, peer review, public health, Research, rubella, Science (journal), serotonin, The Lancet, Vaccines}

Scientists Are Undermining Our Trust in Science

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 30, 2022

Bioethics, Culture

3}

Falsification of scientific research has been a chronic problem for the sector in recent years. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 21, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Science Reporting
Tagged
, biological complexity, biologists, City Journal, Cornelius Hunter, COVID-19, Darwinian processes, evolution, evolutionary biology, fraud, human nature, intelligent design, journalism, New York Times, Nicholas Wade, press release, propaganda, replication crisis, reporters, science writers, scientific papers, skepticism, viruses}

Why Are Science Reporters So Credulous?

_{David Klinghoffer
March 21, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Science Reporting

3}

Most journalists who write about evolution appear to have made their choice to be flacks and toadies for the godlike biologists. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, common ancestry, embryology, embryos, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, fraud, gills, Haeckel’s embryos, humans, Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells, Khan Academy, ontogeny, phylogeny, Science (journal), Stephen Jay Gould, The Stream, vertebrate embryos, YouTube videos}

“Evidence for Evolution”? Khan Academy Pushes Haeckel’s Phony Embryo Drawings

_{Casey Luskin
February 6, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

5}

I’ve watched many Khan Academy videos over the years — sometimes just for fun, and sometimes to advise teachers on whether they are good tools to use. Read More ›

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Date
January 5, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, biosignatures, Case Western Reserve University, computers, flowers, Forensics, forgery, fraud, intelligent design, Live Science, Mars, meteorites, microbes, NASA, Nature (journal), Neural Networks, predatory journals, science, stromatolites}

Forensic Science: More Intelligent Design in Action

_{Science and Culture
January 5, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Kenneth Singer at Case Western Reserve trained an AI neural network on a million photos, and then on the brush strokes of four renditions of a flower. Read More ›