Quick Hit: Retraction Watch

This site was recently brought to my attention:

http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/

It’s a site that reports on research papers being retracted (e.g., due to the science contained within them being fraudulent). I thought that in light of our discussions on here about the use of number of publications as the main measure of academic “success,” it might be of interest to our readers.

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About Beth

In the last year of her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry (with a minor in Drama) at McMaster University, Beth fell in love with the field of nutrition, so she went to the University of Guelph to do a MSc in Nutritional Sciences and then to the University of British Columbia to do a PhD in Human Nutrition. After earning her PhD in 2006, she decided that a career in academia was not for her, so she spent two years running a research training program in gender and addictions at an independent centre for research, policy and knowledge translation and now works as an Evaluation Specialist in Public Health in the lower mainland of Vancouver, as well as doing some contract work as a consultant. She hasn’t completely unplugged from academia though, as she teaches as a sessional instructor at UBC and the Justice Institute of BC. In her spare time, she can be found playing (and watching) hockey, running or blogging.
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