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Writer, journalist, historian. Managing editor @HdxAcademy but all opinions here just my own. Bylines NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Boston Globe, WIRED, The Atlantic, CHE...

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How the media hypes “research that is absurd on its face”

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By Alice Dreger Verified
| Retraction Watch
Aaron Brown says his new book, Wrong Number: How to Extract Truth from a Blizzard of Quantitative Disinformation, “isn’t an exposé of fraud—Retraction Watch covers that ground. It’s about legitimate-looking research that is absurd on its face.” Published this month by Wiley, Brown uses dozens of case studies to show “why widely reported and influential studies in top journals are not just wrong, but obviously and egregiously illogical or contrary to simple fact.
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Research: How to Spot Errors in Medical Publications

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By Alice Dreger Verified
| polytechnique-insights.com
Launched in June 2025 with funding from the philanthropic organisation Coefficient Giving, The Medical Evidence Project aims to detect unreliable articles, fraudulent or otherwise, that are likely to influence current medical recommendations. We discuss this with Alice Dreger, PhD and editor for the project.
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Why don’t journalists circle back to cover retractions? A conversation with Malgorzata Iwaniec-Thompson

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By Alice Dreger Verified
| Retraction Watch
Vertigo3d via Canva In a paper published last month in the Journal of Documentation, a team of researchers in journalism, social science and data explore how and why journalists report – or don’t report – on scientific retractions. The investigators performed an analysis on news coverage of “high-attention retracted articles” identified from the Retraction Watch database and other sources and also interviewed journalists from the U.K. and Finland to gain a cross-cultural perspective.
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