Politico: Meet science’s new fraud fighter
“The Medical Evidence Project will operate on two levels: Whistleblowers can use a tip line to alert Heathers’ team to problematic research and the team will build digital infrastructure to vet research more efficiently.
The project is funded through a two-year $900,000 grant from Open Philanthropy. The nonprofit Center for Scientific Integrity, the parent organization of Retraction Watch, a blog that tracks retractions in scientific publications, is running the initiative.”