18: Ivan Oransky - It would be both inadvisable and highly illegal for me to treat any patients

Ivan Oransky is the co-founder (with his colleague Adam Marcus) of Retraction Watch, a website that tracks retractions in the scientific literature. This episode was recorded during Ivan's visit to Georgia Tech to give the Phillips 66 / C.J. "Pete" Silas Program in Ethics and Leadership lecture. We discussed his motivations for starting Retraction Watch, the reasons for the rising number of retractions, and what drives (a very small number of) scientists to commit fraud. (Recorded on August 31, 2016)

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Show Notes:

• Ivan Oransky

• Bernie Marcus

• Phillips 66 / C.J. “Pete” Silas Program in Ethics and Leadership

• Retraction Watch

• Embargo Watch

• Center for Scientific Integrity

• Scientific retraction

• Ferric Fang et al - "Misconduct Accounts for the Majority of Retracted Scientific Publications"

• Plagiarism detection

• U.S. Office of Research Integrity - Forensic Tools

• Adam Marcus

• Adam Marcus - "Fraud Case Rocks Anesthesiology Community"

• The Scientist

• Wordpress

• Ivan Oransky - "The Shroud of Retraction: Virology Journal Withdraws Paper about Whether Christ Cured a Woman with Flu"

• Spurious Correlations

• Alison McCook - "New Retraction Watch Partnership Will Create Retraction Database"

• STAT

• John Maddox

• Gerhard Ertl

• Haber-Bosch Process

• Gaming Metrics: Innovation & Surveillance in Academic Misconduct

• Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus - "Are ‘Predatory’ Publishers’ Days Numbered?"

• Journal of Nature and Science

• Sarah Kaplan - "Major Publisher Retracts 64 Scientific Papers in Fake Peer Review Outbreak"