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March 13, 2026

The 2 AM Scroll:
Inside the Health Misinformation Storm

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Do Nascimento IJB, Pizarro AB, Almeida JM, Azzopardi-Muscat N, Gonçalves MA, Björklund M, et al. (2022) Infodemics and health misinformation: A systematic review of reviews. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 100(9), 544–561.

March 12, 2026

Is AI Fueling False Findings in Science?

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Suchak T, Aliu AE, Harrison C, Zwiggelaar R, Geifman N, Spick M (2025) Explosion of formulaic research articles, including inappropriate study designs and false discoveries, based on the NHANES US national health database. PLOS Biology 23(5): e3003152.

October 15, 2025

The Pandemic’s Risky Bet: Publishing Science Before It Was Checked

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Brierley L, Nanni F, Polka JK, Dey G, Pálfy M, Fraser N, et al. (2022) Tracking changes between preprint posting and journal publication during a pandemic. PLoS Biol 20(2): e3001285.

March 13, 2026

Science Improves When Data is Shared, But Not All Journals Are on Board Yet

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Tarazona-Alvarez B, Zamora-Martinez N, Garcia-Sanz V, Paredes-Gallardo V, Bellot-Arcis C, Lucas-Dominguez R, et al. (2022) Open science practices in general and internal medicine journals, an observational study. PLoS ONE 17(5): e0268993.

November 20, 2025

Do Scientists Actually Protect Our Data What Swedish Research Can Tell Us

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Asplund K, Hulter Åsberg K (2021) Reporting ethical approval in health and social science articles: an audit of adherence to GDPR and national legislation. BMC Med Ethics 22, 92.

March 12, 2026

The Early-Bird Papers: Who Really Uses Preprints? The Global Divide in Open Science

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Rzayeva N, Pinfield S, Waltman L (2025) Adoption of preprinting across scientific disciplines and geographical regions (1991-2023). SocArXiv; 2025.

October 16, 2025

When Scientists Pay to Unlock Their Research: Does Free Access Mean More Readers?

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Clark AD, Myers TC, Steury TD, Krzton A, Yanes J, Barber A, et al. (2024) Does it pay to pay? A comparison of the benefits of open-access publishing across various sub-fields in biology. PeerJ 12:e16824.

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