TLP #33 : The stories behind the retractions - Ivan Oransky

This month Ivan Oransky joins us to talk about his work as a journalist and advocate for monitoring scientific misconduct. Ivan confesses about his beginnings as a young playwright of the immune system He discusses how and why he left medicine to become a journalist Ivan’s mentors encouraged him to develop by getting experience as a journalist and editor Ivan reflects on how his training as a physician was helpful and allowed people to trust him He stresses how important it is to read in order to develop story-writing skills Ivan explains that curiosity and attention can help to hunt for good stories He thinks the trend to ‘weaponization’ is central to what’s wrong in science and science communication today He suggests that going ‘upstream’ might help to explain the methodology and not just the results of science Ivan describes the origins of Retraction Watch and looking for the stories behind the retractions He also insists that we need to look upstream to understand what leads to the fraud (or sloppiness) behind the retractions Finally, learning to say NO is an important skill to keeping focused Ivan mentioned these scientists, writers and institutions Harvard University : The Harvard Crimson Yale University The Scientist Journal of American Medical Association New York University’s Carter Journalism Institute The New York Times Lawrence Altman MD George Lundberg To find out more about Ivan and his work visit these links at NYU on Twitter/X Retraction Watch The Transmitter /Spectrum magazine Ivan’s first play about the Immune System (aged 11) You want to support our work ? Buy us a coffee ! ==> Support the show 💌 Subcribe to our newsletter and receive the episodes and news directly in your mailbox : To find out more about Renaud and Jonathan : Twitter : LinkedIn : Twitter : LinkedIn :

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TLP #33 : The stories behind the retractions - Ivan Oransky is an episode from The Lonely Pipette : helping scientists do better science by Jonathan Weitzman & Renaud Pourpre.

This episode is 50:26 long.

This episode was published on Oct 29, 2024.

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