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Ivan Oransky, co-founder of the Retraction Watch blog, discusses the scientific process, what can go wrong, and the differences between misconduct and honest mistakes

Human Rights Watch's affiliation with ex-CIA and NATO officials generates perverse incentives and undermine its reputation for independence.

There is a fundamental debate brewing in the party, grounded on very different perspectives that lead in significantly different directions.

In March, when the winter freeze finally began to thaw, Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD), the city’s public utility, announced that it would resume shutting off water to delinquent customers, at a rate of 1,500 to 3,000 per week. As a result, some 40 percent of DWSD customers will lose their water supply by the end of the summer

A new system would allow individuals to pick and choose what data to share with websites and mobile apps.

Where insider politics fails, a transformational approach can turn the impossible into the inevitable.

According to a recent report by the Pew Research Center, the number of full-time reporters covering state politics for daily newspapers has declined by 35% since 2003, most dramatically in the South. The "nontraditional" news sources that have sought to fill this vacuum in state political coverage are dominated by conservative organizations and their websites. The Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity owns 14 of these 33 "ideological websites."

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Kidnap, crackdown, mutual missteps and a hail of rockets

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