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NIH Pledges ‘Enforcement’ of ClinicalTrials.gov Reporting
Source: Compliance Cosmos Accurate and complete reporting to ClinicalTrials.gov is not only vital for patients seeking appropriate studies in which to enroll, the data shows the world where NIH and other funders are spending their dollars.
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Science Shouldn’t Give Data Brokers Cover for Stealing Your Privacy
Source: Scientific American In the guise of collecting scientific data, data brokers are running a massive privacy invasion. Researchers should stop helping them.
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Fired OSU postdoc charged with forgery admitted to faking data, feds
Source: Retraction Watch
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AI? Brain manipulation? WHO’s new chief scientist aims to anticipate global challenges
Source: Science Still wary of COVID-19, Jeremy Farrar wants to bring a “sense of tomorrow” to health agency and countries.
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Kansas universities get $24 million to research disaster response tools
Source: Kansas Reflector Kansas institutions receive $20 million to research how the state can better support residents before and after disaster emergencies.
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Major research lost after cleaner turned off fridge, lawsuit says
Source: BBC A US institute alleges it lost 25 years of work because a man wanted to stop "annoying" alarms.
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Transplant surgeon sentenced to prison for failed stem cell treatments
Source: Science Paolo Macchiarini found guilty of gross assault against three patients on whom he tested synthetic tracheae.
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NSF Suspends 18 Awards, Receives Repayments Related to Foreign Ties, Research Misconduct
Source: Compliance Cosmos One university lost 14 awards; another, four. An investigator was suspended governmentwide. A public institution paid back more than $850,000, while two others returned nearly a million dollars.
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Building Robust RAI Programs as Third-Party AI Tools Proliferate
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review The 2023 MIT SMR-BCG responsible AI report finds that third-party AI tools pose increasing risks for organizations.
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Will AI liberate research from institutional bean-counting?
Source: Times Higher Education ChatGPT’s ability to churn out mediocre papers should lead us to reappraise how research is carried out, reported and evaluated, says Martyn Hammersley.
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