Psychology Today has apparently yanked a blog post by London School of Economics evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa that wondered why black women were considered less attractive than other women. The post, titled “Why Are Black Women Rated Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women, But Black Men Are Rated Better Looking Than Other Men?” was posted [...]
Last summer, two respected medical journalists — Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky — launched a lovely blog called Retraction Watch. It's dedicated to "Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process." I wrote about the site in my weekly CJR column and have been watching it highlight some notable and amusing retractions. This week [...]
A report from the Guardian: The editor-in-chief of an academic journal has resigned after his publication accepted a hoax article. The Open Information Science Journal failed to spot that the incomprehensible computer-generated paper was a fake. This was despite heavy hints from its authors, who claimed they were from the Centre for Research in Applied [...]
