public-trust
8 stories tagged "public-trust"
Three Sydney Space-Physics Papers Outlasted a 2023 Fabrication Finding Against Their First Author
A 2023 Sydney inquiry found Joachim Schmidt fabricated a figure in an unpublished manuscript. Journals now say figures in three of his published papers were likely fabricated too, and those retractions began with an anonymous complaint to the publisher in 2024.
InvestigationsFrom 'Vaccine Hesitancy' to 'Trust': Five Years of NIH Insiders Grading Vaccine-Injury Research by Public Reaction
In 2021 Francis Collins warned that a paper on nerve symptoms after COVID vaccination would feed 'vaccine hesitancy.' This month the NIH hospital board's chair warned the new clinic's findings would be dismissed either way. Of decided federal COVID countermeasure claims, 98.4 percent were denied.
InvestigationsPhysics of Fluids Sent a Postdoc's Name to the Authors Whose Algebra He Flagged
AIP Publishing tells its editors to protect the anonymity of anyone raising a concern. Physics of Fluids sent a postdoc's name, institution and rank to the authors he challenged, and 8 referees later found nothing to defend in their paper.
InvestigationsKennedy Reopens the Federal Vaccine Rulebook, Starting With the Words That Decide Which Shots Your Child Gets
HHS is asking whether the three labels that decide which shots your child gets still work, and putting the COVID-era override of its own vaccine advisers on the record as the reason public trust cracked.
InvestigationsVitamin K Shot Refusals Nearly Doubled Since 2017. A Cancer Scare Refuted Twenty Years Ago Still Shadows It.
Refusal of the newborn vitamin K shot has nearly doubled since 2017. The injection all but erases a bleed that kills roughly one in five infants it reaches, and the cancer scare still shadowing it was refuted twenty years ago. The institutions losing these parents will not even count the damage.
InvestigationsTwo Journals That Buried the Lab-Leak Question Now Warn of a 'Gilded Age' in American Science
The Lancet and Science marked America's 250th by casting the administration's research cuts as vandalism. Both journals spent the public trust they now invoke, and the editorials never mention how.
InvestigationsA Senior NIAID Scientist Got Caught Smuggling 113 Vials Through Detroit. He Says He Does It All the Time.
Two NIAID scientists are charged with bringing 113 undeclared vials into Detroit during an active Congo mpox outbreak. One allegedly told a federal officer he does it all the time.
InvestigationsDoctor Mike Plays 'Never Have I Ever' With a Firefighter. Watch What's Around the Bit.
Doctor Mike's lighthearted Never Have I Ever video sits at the top of a funnel that includes a $997 media academy, a UNICEF vaccine-ambassador title, and an ongoing pitch to pharmaceutical executives about social-media trust.