{"id":17353,"date":"2016-06-11T19:18:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T18:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=17353"},"modified":"2016-06-11T19:18:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T18:18:06","slug":"retraction-watchs-weekend-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2016\/06\/11\/retraction-watchs-weekend-reads\/","title":{"rendered":"Retraction Watch&#8217;s Weekend Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last month or so Retraction Watch&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2016\/06\/11\/weekend-reads-idiotic-reviews-wrong-metrics-in-china-questions-about-preprints\/\">Weekend Reads<\/a> has become a must-read weekly newsletter. Not just the usual slate of links to stonkingly huge retractions but also tales of academic embezzlement, an article in <em>The Economist<\/em> on the systemic problems in Chinese science and academic publishing, ghost-management of the entire process of bringing a drug to market, news of quiet Elsevier acquisitions, and how Northwestern Polytechnic University in Silicon Valley became a corrupt test-faking visa-factory. That&#8217;s just a small sample from this week&#8217;s edition. There&#8217;s also optimism-inducing stuff, like this week&#8217;s news of <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/google\/2016\/05\/20\/googles-newest-app-turns-phone-science-lab\/\">Google&#8217;s new &#8216;Science Journal&#8217; phone app<\/a> which turns your phone into a citizen-science research lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last month or so Retraction Watch&#8217;s Weekend Reads has become a must-read weekly newsletter. Not just the usual &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2016\/06\/11\/retraction-watchs-weekend-reads\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ooops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}