When Scholarship Goes Off Course: A Conversation with the Founders of Retraction Watch

Description

CAMPOREE: When Scholarship Goes Off Course
A Conversation with the Founders of Retraction Watch

Join us for a conversational Camporee exploring what happens when science goes wrong.

What happens when published research is found to contain errors, questionable data, image manipulation, authorship disputes, or even outright fraud? How do journals, editors, institutions, and authors respond when the scholarly record must be corrected?

Join Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus, co-founders of Retraction Watch, for a conversation about the forces shaping research integrity today. Drawing on years of reporting and analysis, they will share stories from the front lines of scholarly publishing and explore the growing role of corrections, expressions of concern, and retractions in maintaining trust in the scientific record.

Whether you are an author, reviewer, editor, educator, or researcher, this Camporee will provide valuable insights into how scholarship can go off course—and how the academic community works to set it right.

Speakers

Ivan Oransky, MD, Co-founder of Retraction Watch, Editor in Chief of The Transmitter, and Distinguished Journalist In Residence at New York University’s Carter Journalism Institute

Adam Marcus, BA, MA, Co-founder of Retraction Watch, and the editorial director for primary care at Medscape.

Event Details

Date: Friday, August 21, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM Eastern
Location: Zoom
Registration: Free or $20 if you want NPD credit.

A Zoom link will be emailed after registration.

Registration Note

This Camporee is part of Writer’s Camp’s ongoing exploration of writing, publishing, peer review, and editorial systems in the age of AI.