Adam Marcus

Montclair, New York

Editorial Director, Primary Care at Medscape

Editorial Director, Primary Care at Medscape co-founder of Retraction Watch

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‘Now is not the time to fade’: Retraction Watch awarded Council of Science Editors’ highest honor

1 week ago | retractionwatch.com | Adam Marcus |Ivan Oransky

Retraction Watch has been honored with the Council of Science Editors’ highest honor: The 2025 Award for Meritorious Achievement. CSE gives the award each year to an organization or individual who has made “significant contributions” toward the goal of CSE, “namely, the improvement of scientific communication through the pursuit of high standards in all activities connected with editing.” We were honored to be at the CSE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis today to accept the award.
Why Universities Should Make Misconduct Reports Public | Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics | Cambridge Core

1 month ago | cambridge.org | Ivan Oransky |Adam Marcus

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The Discipline of Last Resort

2 months ago | inquisitivemag.org | Ivan Oransky |Adam Marcus

If you’re anything like us, when you take a pill, drive over a bridge, or make other important decisions, you want to know those choices are based on solid evidence.
The Scientific Literature Can’t Save You Now

Feb 13, 2025 | msn.com | Adam Marcus

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The Scientific Literature Can’t Save You Now

Feb 13, 2025 | msn.com | Adam Marcus

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The Scientific Literature Can’t Save You Now

Feb 13, 2025 | yahoo.com | Adam Marcus

Twice during his Senate confirmation hearings at the end of last month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s new health secretary, brought up a peer-reviewed study by a certain “Mawson” that had come out just the week before. “That article is by Mawson,” he said to Senator Bill Cassidy, then spelled out the author’s name for emphasis: “M-A-W-S-O-N.” And to Bernie Sanders: “Look at the Mawson study, Senator … Mawson.
The issue with special issues

Sep 27, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Alison Abritis |Adam Marcus |Ivan Oransky

Advanced search Accountability in Research Ethics, Integrity and Policy Latest Articles Submit an article Journal homepage Full Article Figures & data References Citations Metrics Reprints & Permissions Read this article /doi/full/10.1080/08989621.2024.2404435?needAccess=true "The issue with special issues." Accountability in Research, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Disclosure statement Alison Abritis, Adam Marcus, and Ivan Oransky are members of the Retraction Watch team. Additional...
‘Coding’ errors prompt retraction of paper on long COVID in kids

Aug 20, 2024 | retractionwatch.com | Adam Marcus

JAMA Pediatrics has retracted a controversial 2023 paper on the incidence of long COVID in children after the authors discovered a raft of “coding” errors in their analysis that greatly underestimated the risk of the condition. The article – a research letter titled “Post–COVID-19 Condition in Children” – was written by a group of researchers in Canada led by Lyndsey Hahn, of the University of Alberta, in Edmonton.
‘No animosity between us’: Lungless frog finding retracted after 16 years

Aug 7, 2024 | retractionwatch.com | Adam Marcus

In 2008, a group of researchers published a paper in Current Biology reporting on what they said was a lungless water-loving frog in Borneo. According to David Bickford, then of the National University of Singapore, and his colleagues, the Bornean flat-headed frog “breathed” the way most salamanders do: by absorbing oxygen through their skin or, during earlier phases of life for some species, through gills.