Flawed scientific articles don't just clutter journals—they misguide policies, waste taxpayer funds, and endanger lives.

Few tasks come as thankless as asking a scientific journal editor to correct a bad study. “I think that it [is] time to stop this never-ending story,” the editor in chief of a diabetes journal told us ...

A community of sleuths hunting for errors in scientific research have sent shockwaves through some of the most prestigious research institutions in the world — and the science community at large. High ...

A simple methodological error meant that for years researchers considered drinking moderate amounts of alcohol to be healthy. Now plenty of evidence suggests that isn ...

Errors are an unavoidable part of modern life. From minor human misjudgments to large-scale system failures, errors influence ...

That confusion is closer to what the book conveys than its professed critical purpose, for it is an oddly mixed and occasionally confused compendium of brief anecdotes and rather more serious accounts ...