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September 15, 2025

The world’s laziest peer reviewer

A dataset-shaped gift for you to celebrate Peer Review Week Read more
August 4, 2025

A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise

Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly” Read more
July 28, 2025

No, mRNA vaccines do not cause “transcriptomic chaos”

A review of a recent anti-vaccine preprint Read more
June 4, 2025

Introducing COSIG: the Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides

A comprehensive starting point for performing post-publication peer review. Read more
May 6, 2025

Google Scholar is (still) doing nothing about citation manipulation

Detailing yet another citation manipulation scheme in Google Scholar Read more
February 24, 2025

Patently fraudulent

There is a new market for academic fraud: selling fake patents. Read more
December 30, 2024

Recent encounters with atom-thin salami slicing

How far can the same data be stretched? Read more
October 15, 2024

The scientific enterprise is a human enterprise

An excerpt from my newly-defended PhD dissertation. Read more
July 18, 2024

Engineering the world’s highest cited cat, Larry

A citation manipulation scheme so easy, even a cat can do it. Read more
June 18, 2024

How shameful should retraction be?

Collecting arguments on the stigma surrounding retraction Read more

Reese Richardson

I am a newly-minted PhD working in computational biology and science of science at Northwestern University. My interests include home microcomputing, 3D printing and flags.

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