Reader (when reading a study) and writer (when submitting a study for publication) beware — if the journal publishing (or offering to publish) that study is not known to you. Dan Vergano explains, in this National Geographic article: Fake Cancer Study Spotlights Bogus Science Journals A cancer drug discovered in a humble lichen, and ready […]
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Closed exhibitionists: The museum that had minimal reality
Reports pour in about the closing of a museum that had little in fact to commend it but much in fiction. The Global Times says (and supplies this photo): Museum shut over fake exhibits A museum in a village in Hebei Province has been shut down as most of its collections were reported to be […]
This Grand Canyon, and That One, and Those Others…
Earle Spamer of the American Philosophical Society has, over the years, written a series of Improbable Research reports about the Grand Canyon (beginning with his explanation of how to preserve the Grand Canyon from disappearing due to erosion — his solution: fill the canyon, at least temporarily, with plastic packing “peanuts“). In “Is the Grand Canyon […]
Tiny Study: Internet-Ordered Viagra Is Rarely Genuine
The company that manufactures Viagra mounted a tiny study of some of the products called “Viagra” that are sold via some web sites: “Internet-Ordered Viagra (Sildenafil Citrate) Is Rarely Genuine,” Neil Campbell, John P. Clark, Vera J. Stecher, Irwin Goldstein, Journal of Sexual Medicine, volume 9, issue 11, November 2012, pp. 2943–2951. The authors, at […]