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Coalition wages campaign for retractions of Richard Lynn’s racist journal articles

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A coalition of researchers, historians, and journalists is urging that major scientific publishers, including Elsevier and Springer, retract the racist articles of an academic known — and sometimes lauded for — a long career espousing ideas of racial superiority and eugenics.

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It’s time to stop treating menopause like a disease, researchers argue in series of Lancet articles

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The article calls for a reframing of menopause and a management approach that is not simply focused on medical interventions that relieve symptoms. One in eight people is postmenopausal, and about 50 million women enter menopause every year.

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WASHINGTON — A journal published by the American Medical Association has corrected four articles from two of the nation’s top tobacco researchers, Ray Niaura and David Abrams, after STAT uncovered undisclosed ties the New York University professors had with the e-cigarette company Juul. Read the rest…

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Opinion: Journals that published Richard Lynn’s racist ‘research’ articles should retract them

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In 2012, the Elsevier journal Personality and Individual Differences published a special issue that included articles with titles like “Life history theory and race differences: An appreciation of Richard Lynn’s contribution to science” and “National IQs and economic outcomes.”

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