by snarly | Apr 20, 2017 | Academic apologies
Inside Higher Education has an excellent account of a horrible decision made by an academic journal…and the journal’s attempt to make things right. Read the whole tale there. The (sorta?) short version: Last year, an assistant professor at Columbia’s...
by sumac | Jun 11, 2015 | Scientific apologies
Tim Hunt is a biochemist, co-winner of a Nobel Prize in the Physiology or Medicine category (along with Leland Hartwell and Paul Nurse). The prize was for work elucidating how proteins like cyclins control cell division. Sounds like he can be a smart person when he...
by sumac | Nov 6, 2014 | Media Apologies
Ivan Oransky of Retraction Watch pointed this out to us. Retraction Watch focuses on scientific journals, with sample subject matter including spectroscopy, peptides, climate change, surgical techniques, quantum physics, and yes, surface temperatures of naked-neck...
by snarly | Mar 18, 2014 | Apology Essentials, Institutional Apologies, Personal Apologies, Scientific apologies
Our pal Ivan Oransky at Retraction Watch, who’s also the VP of MedPage Today, alerted us to a terrific MedPage Today video about how and why doctors should apologize. It’s not embeddable, but you can watch it here. You should probably apologize if...
Thanks for the ping, Kim KardashianJanuary 15, 2024
Our paperback is here!January 2, 2024
Six times celebrities and public figures apologized terribly in 2023!December 29, 2023
I can’t apologize for walking the path God set me onSeptember 20, 2023
It was wrong to try to steal his secret sauceSeptember 12, 2023