Exclusive: retraction-prone editors identified at megajournal PLoS ONE
Study says small editor group handled many problematic manuscripts โ and a Nature investigation finds out who they are.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02446-5
A member of the House of Lords urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at the request of a US defence company that employs him as an adviser.
Richard Dannatt, a former head of the British army, wrote privately to two separate Home Office ministers asking them to address the โthreatโ posed by the group after its activists targeted a factory in 2022.
Language on immigration in UK news and politics found to have โshaped backlash against antiracismโ
Pattern of โhostile languageโ in media and debates likely to describe people of colour with less sympathy, report says
A new rating scale, launched this week, will allow Western governments to more clearly express which meaningless platitude they are using about the situation in Gaza today.
Advocates say the new system will help reduce confusion about exactly what empty statement is being expressed, while Governments continue to do nothing. โI had a situation last week where I thought my government was Profoundly Troubled by the slaughter of civilians in Gaza, but it turns out they were only Deeply Dismayed. This new system will make things a lot clearer and avoid any confusion,โ Australian Jess Koh said.
Conservative Jewish-American charitable organizations are financing settlements in the West Bank, facilitating ethnic cleansing and fueling antisemitism by connecting Jewish culture in the US to the brutal Israeli state.
