Ivan Oransky is editor-in-chief of The Transmitter, having previously served in editorial leadership roles at outlets including Medscape, Reuters Health and Scientific American. He is a distinguished journalist-in-residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, where he teaches medical journalism, and co-founder of Retraction Watch, which reports on scientific retractions.
Ivan Oransky
Editor-in-chief
The Transmitter
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Journal retracts paper on plant beauty that cited autism study
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Ivan Oransky
25 April 2022 | 2 min read
Education
- M.D., New York University
- B.A. in biology, Harvard University
Articles
- “Rooting out scientific misconduct” | Science
- “Retractions are increasing, but not enough” | Nature
- “Interpretation of health news items reported with or without spin: protocol for a prospective meta-analysis of 16 randomised controlled trials” | BMJ Open
- “How bibliometrics and school rankings reward unreliable science” | The BMJ
- “How to stop the unknowing citation of retracted papers” | Anesthesiology
- “Institutional research misconduct reports need more credibility” | JAMA
- “Science corrects itself, right? A scandal at Stanford says it doesn’t” | Scientific American
- “Image manipulation in science is suddenly in the news. But these cases are hardly rare” | STAT
- “Retractions in medicine: the tip of the iceberg” | European Heart Journal | Oxford Academic
- “Three randomized controlled trials evaluating the impact of ‘spin’ in health news stories reporting studies of pharmacologic treatments on patients’/caregivers’ interpretation of treatment benefit” | BMC Medicine
- “Reasonable versus unreasonable doubt” | American Scientist
Book chapters
- “Journals, peer review, and preprints,” in “A Tactical Guide to Science Journalism: Lessons From the Front Lines”
- “Retraction Watch: What we’ve learned and how metrics play a role,” in “Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research”
- “Pseudoscience, coming to a peer-reviewed journal near you,” in “Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science”
- “Will improvements in health journalism improve health literacy?” in “Volume 269: Health Literacy in Clinical Practice and Public Health”
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