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Aug 26, 2026
This RCI series reports on how misguided professional incentives have spurred a rise in research fraud and on the scientists pushing reforms to curb it.
Fraud Hunters: Sniffing Out...
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Jul 15, 2026
If Johns Hopkins University wanted to signal its seriousness about creating an alternative to the left-leaning orthodoxy that permeates higher education, it couldn’t have done...
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May 19, 2026
Update (May 22, 2026): Sociologist Melissa Wilde, the reform candidate for president of the American Sociological Association, lost her bid to lead the group.
Universities...
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Mar 10, 2026
Half a century after the book “Why Johnny Can’t Read” sounded an alarm about the rise of illiteracy in the U.S., it has only gotten worse: A quarter of all young...
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Jan 15, 2026
This is the fourth part of a series on the crisis in academic research and publishing. Read the first three parts here, here and here.
By Vince Bielski
The driving ethos of...
Jul 15, 2026If Johns Hopkins University wanted to signal its seriousness about creating an alternative to the left-leaning orthodoxy that permeates higher education, it couldn’t have done...
May 19, 2026Update (May 22, 2026): Sociologist Melissa Wilde, the reform candidate for president of the American Sociological Association, lost her bid to lead the group. Universities...
Mar 10, 2026Half a century after the book “Why Johnny Can’t Read” sounded an alarm about the rise of illiteracy in the U.S., it has only gotten worse: A quarter of all young...
Jan 15, 2026This is the fourth part of a series on the crisis in academic research and publishing. Read the first three parts here, here and here. By Vince Bielski The driving ethos of...