CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.

CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits

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Squirrel Girl and Rat Catcher 2
Vision and Red Tornado
Swamp Thing and Man Thing

“No we can’t ‘just do [X]’. It’s more complicated than that”

Academic publishers defeat lawsuit over ‘peer review’ pay, other restrictions A group of major academic publishers convinced a judge in New York to dismiss a lawsuit accusing them of thwarting competition by barring scholars from submitting papers to multiple journals simultane...

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Wolverine or Lobo and Animal

Thing, Moon Knight, Kitty Pryde, & Ragman lighting the menorah

Editors are ultimately responsible for what gets accepted and published.

Not reviewers. Not authors.

Senator Endorses Discredited Doctor’s Book on a Chemical He Claims Treats Everything From Autism to Cancer Wisconsin's Ron Johnson has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation. Now he's giving credence to assertions about the therapeutic powers of chlorine dioxide, a disinfectant and deodorizer. “It i...

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“It is all lunacy. Absolutely, it’s 100% nonsense”

30 years in journal publishing and have worked with hundreds of journals and have never seen any of them charge an author for cover images. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but I’ve never seen it.

Good journals (and good editors), and there are plenty that I love, do much more than peer review

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Werewolf by Night and Little Red Riding Hood or the 3 little pigs

Great choice! Best of luck!

Reviewer three major revision

Journal TOCs do allow occasional serendipitous discoveries other strategies don't yet enable. Meanwhile, highlights, reviews, news & views, etc. do point to things one should read, and I see a continued role for journals in curation 2/n

The Death of the LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention Line - The Scholarly Kitchen In today’s post, Teodoro (Teo) Pulvirenti and Marianne Calilhanna join Randy Townsend to unpack the disturbing topic of suicide among the LGBTQ+ community.

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I tried getting this off the ground over 10 years ago. I was ahead of my time! :-)

Peer-review works Clear Skies’ data analysis shows that peer-review rejects papers where we flag concerns.

"there is a step in the (...) process which is highly accurate. It’s slow, error-prone, and expensive, but it is spectacularly good at identifying problematic research: that step is called "peer review".

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Red Tornado and Vision

Green Arrow and Hawkeye

In today's post from ORIGINal Thoughts, KGL's Adam Etkin discusses the essential questions every publisher should be asking to ensure alignment, anticipate challenges, and foster a partnership that drives impact.

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10 Questions a Publisher Should Ask the Editorial Office/Society - KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd In this edition of ORIGINal Thoughts, Adam Etkin shares 10 insightful questions—along with sample responses—crafted to spark meaningful and strategic dialogue between publishers and editorial offices ...

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This post from ORIGINal Thoughts offers a timely overview of the tools publishers and editors can use to uphold research integrity—from identifying manipulated images and fabricated data to detecting papermill submissions and peer-review fraud.

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'Dangerous Anti-Vaccine Fanatic' RFK Jr. Shredded by Medical Experts After Pulling Support for mRNA Research | Common Dreams Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faces backlash for cutting funding for mRNA vaccine research.

“..turning the USA from the leader in science to an ideologically anti-scientific backwater of quackery and pseudoscience,"
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I’ve known Adrian for years & couldn’t be happier about this!

Frontiers to retract 122 articles, links thousands in other publishers’ journals to “unethical” network The publisher Frontiers has begun retracting a batch of 122 articles across five journals after an investigation found a network of authors and editors engaged in “unethical actions” such as manipu…

Frontiers to retract 122 articles, links thousands in other publishers’ journals to “unethical” network

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