Dan Sprague

A new journal record: Sage title retracts 678 more papers, tally over 1,500 The retraction of “a final batch” of 678 articles concludes Sage’s investigation into questionable peer review, citation manipulation, and other signs of paper mill activity at one of its journals,…

Easy to overlook this given previous mega-retractions, but by any measure this is a PHENOMENAL amount of retractions.

Also: Wiley loses their single journal all time record. I thought it would take longer. 🥺

retractionwatch.com/2025/04/17/s...

The question is: are most Americans willing to trust the bureaucrats, the very same allegedly lazy and incompetent bureaucrats the administration is waging war against, to make no mistakes and never accidentally or intentionally deport them without recourse to an El Salvadoran torture prison

Yea totally. Very likely that density is much lower, and that assessed value per unit per plot is much higher.

My family is from Massachusetts on both sides. My dad says the family helped found Malden.

I grew up in central Jersey! But I don’t know any relatives there.

I Have Written You A Book On Forensic Metascience Use it to cause trouble

Friends, I have written you a book on forensic metascience.

It is free. You can have it. Happy St. Valentine's Day.

If you wish to give me a gift back, you can use it to cause trouble - the greatest gift of all.

open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...

@cambridgemass.bsky.social has a housing crisis. Yet unaccountable "Neighborhood Conservation Districts" (NCDs) run by the city drastically decrease housing construction and increase down-converted unit losses compared to equivalent parcels outside NCDs.

dan-sprague.github.io/2025/03/30/ncd

Sunday Video: The Worst Downtown Interchanges

Sunday Video: The Worst Downtown Interchanges