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Sci/Tech/Health Journalism Ethics News: 161 Stories

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National Weather Service: 'Look out for fake weather pics!'

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National Weather Service: 'Look out for fake weather pics!'

By: Sydney Smith

May 01, 2013 06:00 AM EST

A fake photo purportedly showing a huge supercell thunderstorm cloud over Lawton, Oklahoma has been circulating on social media, the National Weather Service said. The National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma...

Scientific Claim in Iran's Fars News Agency 'Wacky,' 'Completely Nuts'

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Scientific Claim in Iran's Fars News Agency 'Wacky,' 'Completely Nuts'

By: Sydney Smith

April 15, 2013 06:00 AM EST

Is this an example of Iran's weird science? Fars News Agency, which has ties to the Iranian government, unpublished an April 8 story claiming Iranian Ali Razeqi created a "time machine," but not before...

Jane Goodall is Sorry for Monkeying Around Proper Attribution in New Book

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Jane Goodall is Sorry for Monkeying Around Proper Attribution in New Book

By: Sydney Smith

March 20, 2013 11:10 AM EST

Chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall apologized after the Washington Post discovered that her forthcoming book, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder From the World of Plants, co-written by Gail Hudson, fails to attribute "at...

Neanderthal Clone Baby Story Disappears on UK Metro, Unpublishing suspected

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Neanderthal Clone Baby Story Disappears on UK Metro, Unpublishing suspected

By: Sydney Smith

March 20, 2013 06:00 AM EST

The UK Metro has unpublished a Jan. 21 article containing a fake quote about the possibility of a Neanderthal clone...

Trained Gun-Toting Dolphins Gone Missing? Nope, Media Hoaxed by Animal Tale

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Trained Gun-Toting Dolphins Gone Missing? Nope, Media Hoaxed by Animal Tale

By: Sydney Smith

March 15, 2013 10:45 AM EST

News outlets, including Russian news agency Ria Novosti and later the Huffington Post and The Atlantic, were hoaxed by a phony story claiming that armed dolphins with "firearms attached to their heads" were on the...

Fake Neanderthal Clone Baby Story Still Out There? When will Media Admit Error

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Fake Neanderthal Clone Baby Story Still Out There? When will Media Admit Error

By: Sydney Smith

March 13, 2013 06:00 AM EST

Fox News has owned up and disclosed to readers that it included bad information in a Jan. 21 post about Harvard University geneticist George Church, but a few media outlets still have fake quotes published on their...

More Deception? Another Jonah Lehrer Book Pulped By Publisher

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More Deception? Another Jonah Lehrer Book Pulped By Publisher

By: Sydney Smith

March 04, 2013 02:25 PM EST

Book publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said it will yank Jonah Lehrer's 2010 book How We Decide from the shelves, Michael Moynihan reported for the Daily Beast. Moynihan exposed Lehrer's fabrication in his...

Woman NOT Wanted to Make Neanderthal Clone Baby, Misquoted Harvard Prof George Church

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Woman NOT Wanted to Make Neanderthal Clone Baby, Misquoted Harvard Prof George Church

By: Sydney Smith

January 27, 2013 06:00 AM EST

Harvard University genetics professor George M. Church says media reports have fabricated quotes attributed to him. The sensational quotes and reports claimed that Church was looking for a woman to serve as a...

Tumblr Attacked, GNAA Says 'One thing lacking from modern journalism....integrity'

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Tumblr Attacked, GNAA Says 'One thing lacking from modern journalism....integrity'

By: London Shearer Allen, Sydney Smith

December 03, 2012 06:50 PM EST

USA Today, Reuters, Entertainment Weekly and thousands of other Tumblr blogs were attacked by a worm set up by the Gay N***** Association of America (GNAA)...

AP Retracts Google/ICOA $400 Million Hoax, Tech Crunch 'Updates'

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AP Retracts Google/ICOA $400 Million Hoax, Tech Crunch 'Updates'

By: Sydney Smith

November 29, 2012 08:00 AM EST

The Associated Press issued a "KILL BULLETIN" Nov. 26 after wrongly reporting that "Google Inc. is paying $400 million" to purchase a company that serves as an "operator of Wi-Fi hotspots in...

CNN Unpublishes Story on Study Linking Women's Hormones to Voting

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CNN Unpublishes Story on Study Linking Women's Hormones to Voting

By: Sydney Smith

October 26, 2012 05:00 AM EST

CNN unpublished an article that "did not meet the editorial standards of CNN," Mediaite reported. The story has been replaced with a post disclosing the unpublishing that reads: "Post...

Freud Museum's Media Ethics & Emotional Wellbeing Conference in November

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Freud Museum's Media Ethics & Emotional Wellbeing Conference in November

By: Sydney Smith

October 19, 2012 04:00 AM EST

The Freud Museum in London is hosting a conference on "Media Ethics and Emotional Wellbeing" Nov. 10. The "one day symposium" runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. According to the Freud Museum...

Review, Ad for Book on Opposite Pages not Planned, Science News Says

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Review, Ad for Book on Opposite Pages not Planned, Science News Says

By: Sydney Smith

September 19, 2012 05:30 PM EST

Science News will "plan to try to watch out" for any possible appearances of blurred lines between its advertising and news content "to avoid any appearance of a connection that does not exist." This vow...

Wall Street Journal Corrects 2 Jonah Lehrer Articles, Unpublishes 2 Others

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Wall Street Journal Corrects 2 Jonah Lehrer Articles, Unpublishes 2 Others

By: Sydney Smith

September 17, 2012 04:15 PM EST

The Wall Street Journal unpublished two articles by Jonah Lehrer that "inappropriately reused passages from articles he wrote for the Boston Globe," according to the Journal's corrections page. The...

Wired Fires Jonah Lehrer, Review Finds Plagiarism, Fabrication, Self-Plagiarism, Uncorrected Errors

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Wired Fires Jonah Lehrer, Review Finds Plagiarism, Fabrication, Self-Plagiarism, Uncorrected Errors

By: Sydney Smith

September 01, 2012 02:45 PM EST

After reviewing a selection of Jonah Lehrer's articles for Wired.com, NYU journalism professor Charles Seife determined that Lehrer's work was filled with journalism ethics issues. "Lehrer plagiarized...

Science Journalism Conference Asks: 'Should science journalists focus on explaining science or on exposing misconduct?'

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Science Journalism Conference Asks: 'Should science journalists focus on explaining science or on exposing misconduct?'

By: Sydney Smith

July 21, 2012 04:00 PM EST

Science journalism ethics were discussed at the late June UK Conference of Science Journalists, the Guardian reported. Some issues discussed at the annual conference included: "should science journalists...

UK Judge: Nature Didn't Libel Editor, Story in Public Interest

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UK Judge: Nature Didn't Libel Editor, Story in Public Interest

By: Sydney Smith

July 14, 2012 01:50 PM EST

A UK court ruled that Nature didn't libel another journal's editor in a 2008 article about the editor's retirement, Nature reported. The 2008 article "Self-publishing Editor Set to Retire," was...

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Tennessean Runs 'Article' by Hospital

By: Sydney Smith

June 09, 2012 02:55 PM EST

The Nashville Tennessean ran an article from a local hospital, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the Nashville Scene reported. The article in question was written by two former journalists who are now...

New System Tracks Corrections, Retractions & Changes to Science Papers

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New System Tracks Corrections, Retractions & Changes to Science Papers

By: Sydney Smith

May 18, 2012 04:10 PM EST

A new system called CrossMark will make it easier to find out about "updates and post-publications analyses of research papers," the...

Abraham Lincoln Facebook Patent Hoax: Forbes Unpublishes?

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Abraham Lincoln Facebook Patent Hoax: Forbes Unpublishes?

By: Sydney Smith

May 09, 2012 12:55 PM EST

A fake story that circulated online May 8 claimed that Abraham Lincoln "patented the basic idea" for Facebook with a newspaper called The Springfield Gazette, Memeburn reported. Nate St. Pierre started the...

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