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David Sanders

David A. Sanders

Articles by David A. Sanders

Tufa formations of Mono Lake, California with added bacteria, called GFAJ-1, which Nasa announced that a team of biologists had discovered can use toxic arsenic to reproduce and grow.

The ‘arsenic life’ paper’s retraction is good – but the process was poisonous

The failings of peer reviewers, editors, journalists and authors led to a 15-year struggle to retract an article that should never have been published in the first place. But does the withdrawal of a paper for reasons other than misconduct set a dangerous precedent? No, says David Sanders

David A. Sanders

8月 14日

Parthenon marble depicting part of the batlle between the Centaurs and the Lapiths to illustrate The British Museum’s hostility to whistleblowing duplicates academia’s

Sleuths unearthing malpractice should receive gratitude, not hostility

The British Museum learned it was wrong to brush off a whistleblower. Universities and journals should do the same, says David Sanders

David A. Sanders

9月 10日

Claudine Gay’s downfall is no victory for research integrity

The weaponisation of plagiarism allegations to remove Harvard’s president is no cause for celebration, says research fraudbuster David Sanders

David A. Sanders

2月 16日

Illustration of person blowing a whistle with someone holding a gavel above his head to illustrate Science whistleblowers need better support – and I should know

Science whistleblowers need better support – and I should know

Instead of focusing on the reliability of the data, I know first-hand that defamation suits become personal and career-threatening, says David Sanders

David A. Sanders

10月 11日

Stanford University

Every researcher can learn from Tessier-Lavigne’s downfall

If Stanford’s now-departed president had fully faced up to dubious practices in his lab and insisted on corrections, his infractions of research integrity could have been forgiven, says David Sanders

David A. Sanders

8月 25日

Montage of Gulliver with digital sunset and board of symbols to illustrate I thought I was a creative scientist – until AI worked out my trick

I thought I was a creative scientist – until AI worked out my trick

The idea that humans’ inventiveness will always keep them one step ahead of computers may not turn out to be true, says David Sanders

David A. Sanders

5月 25日

Collage of David Sanders out and about

Domestic science: when academia and politics collide

When Purdue biologist David Sanders ran for election to Indiana’s senate last autumn, he assumed a commitment to evidence and personal engagement would give him traction. But while his pitch was well received on doorsteps, the system’s dark arts fended him away from the legislature’s threshold

David A. Sanders

3月 30日

Scientists resist with evidence

科学家有让公众知情的义务，但不能为错误信息背书

大卫·桑德斯（David Sanders）表示，必须提醒记者和事实核查人员，科学概念可能很难用既简单又真实的语言表述

David A. Sanders

4月 26日

A Republican-led forum on the origins of the Covid-19 virus at the US Capitol on 29 June 2021

Academics’ unscientific assertions on Covid are exacerbating division

The pandemic has demonstrated that there are broad deficiencies in quantitative reasoning skills even within the academy, says David Sanders

David A. Sanders

1月 5日

A pedestrian walks past a wall mural depicting a frontline medical staff stopping the Covid-19 as a metaphor for Research on viruses is essential but can never be risk- free

Research on viruses is essential but can never be risk-free

There is still much controversy about whether the virus that causes Covid-19 was released from a laboratory. David Sanders considers the nature of ‘gain-of-function’ research, what it can teach us – and the safeguards we need to put in place

David A. Sanders

7月 8日

Two men in wigs with waxwork of Albert Einstein

Disguised Academic Plagiarism, by Michael V. Dougherty

David A. Sanders enjoys a vivid account of the many crafty ways academics steal the words of others

David A. Sanders

5月 3日

People in protective gear spraying water

We must clear out the rubbish fouling up the scientific pipeline

Shocking lapses in scientific standards show why renewed scrutiny of existing literature and new anti-fraud measures are needed, says David A. Sanders

David A. Sanders

2月 3日

French microbiologist Didier Raoult walking past a wall of Covid graffiti

Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science, by Stuart Ritchie

David A. Sanders enjoys a clear and comprehensive, if flawed, study of where science is going wrong and how to put it right

David A. Sanders

12月 10日

An actor impersonating Ben Franklin

Plagiarism is not a victimless offence

Dismissing plagiarism as a low-level academic misdemeanour ignores the potentially deadly consequences of letting cheating go unchecked, says David A. Sanders

David A. Sanders

9月 2日

Studio portrait of a man dressed as British detective Sherlock Holmes with a plaid cap, a meerschaum pipe, and a magnifying glass. His silhouette is visible in the background

“每位科学家都必须不惜一切代价捍卫真理”

大卫·桑德斯（David Sanders）认为，是那些有不当研究行为的人，而非揭露他们的人，伤害了科学。但尽管这位生物学家接受了自己身为数据侦探的角色，他希望更多的科学家可以分担这份不会受到感谢且具有法律隐患的责任

David A. Sanders

7月 9日

Academic journals

客座作者都是抄袭者

戴维·桑德斯（David Sanders）表示，拒绝合法作者应占的合理份额属于学术不端行为

David A. Sanders

3月 30日

piles of books

学者们如何跟上最新文献的脚步？

工作量不断增加、出版物层出不穷，这使得学者们更加难以跟上文献更新的进度。在此，八位学者分享了自己的方法，并提出了建议。

8月 22日

Peer review science illustration

Peer review should be a two-stage, science-first process

Bias would be reduced if grant applicants’ capabilities were considered only after assessment of their anonymised proposals, says David Sanders

David A. Sanders

4月 4日

Collage illustration

We must take academic plagiarism seriously

Academia’s exacting standards on attribution are spot on. It is their inconsistent implementation that is the problem, says David Sanders

David A. Sanders

10月 11日

cancer cell

Is everything healthy in cancer research?

Nearly 50 years since war on cancer was declared, declarations of victory remain a distant prospect. Here, six cancer researchers assess the lie of the land

8月 16日