Ivan Oransky, MD

Ivan Oransky, MD

Distinguished Journalist in Residence

Ivan Oransky, MD, Distinguished Writer In Residence, has taught medical reporting in the Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program since 2002. He is editor in chief of The Transmitter and co-founder of Retraction Watch, a site that reports on scientific integrity, fraud, and other issues. The site’s work has been cited by news outlets including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, and in 2020 it was named one of NewsGuard’s “Unsung Heroes” who “are models in producing content that is truthful, compelling, credible, and transparent.”

Ivan previously was vice president of editorial at Medscape, global editorial director of MedPage Today, executive editor of Reuters Health, and held editorial positions at Scientific American and The Scientist. A 2012 TEDMED speaker, he is the recipient of the 2015 John P. McGovern Medal for excellence in biomedical communication from the American Medical Writers Association, and in 2017 was awarded an honorary doctorate in civil laws from The University of the South (Sewanee). Ivan has also taught at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism and has written for publications from Nature to the New York Times. From 2017-2021, he served as president of the Association of Health Care Journalists.

 
 

Published Articles & Essays

The Washington Post
June 11th, 2024
An epidemic of scientific fakery threatens to overwhelm publishers
Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
Science Magazine
January 11th, 2024
Rooting out scientific misconduct
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
Crikey Australia logo
September 20th, 2023
Australia Needs a Science Fraud Watchdog — One With Teeth
Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
Chronicle of Higher Education logo
August 18th, 2023
When Scholars Sue Their Accusers
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
The BMJ
August 17th, 2023
How Bibliometrics and School Rankings Reward Unreliable Science
Ivan Oransky, Adam Marcus, and Alison Abritis
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
The Guardian
August 9th, 2023
There’s Far More Scientific Fraud than Anyone Wants to Admit
Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
Scientific American
August 1st, 2023
Science Corrects Itself, Right? A Scandal at Stanford Says It Doesn’t
Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
Stat
December 2nd, 2022
Image manipulation in science is suddenly in the news. But these cases are hardly rare
Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
Anesthesiology
September 1st, 2022
How to Stop the Unknowing Citation of Retracted Papers
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
Nature
August 2nd, 2022
Retractions are increasing, but not enough
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
Knowable Magazine
November 23rd, 2021
Question the ‘lab leak’ theory. But don’t call it a conspiracy.
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
European Heart Journal
June 28th, 2021
Retractions in medicine: the tip of the iceberg
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
IOS Press
June 28th, 2021
Will Improvements in Health Journalism Improve Health Literacy?
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
Wired
September 17th, 2020
Science Journals Are Purging Racist, Sexist Work. Finally
Ivan Oransky, MD (with Adam Marcus)
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
Taylor Francis Online
July 7th, 2020
An “alarming” and “exceptionally high” rate of COVID-19 retractions?
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
Columbia Journalism Review
May 4th, 2020
Op-ed: Covering science at dangerous speeds
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
Wired
March 28th, 2020
The Science of This Pandemic Is Moving at Dangerous Speeds
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
BioMed Central
June 4th, 2019
Three randomized controlled trials evaluating the impact of “spin” in health news stories reporting studies of pharmacologic treatments on patients’/caregivers’ interpretation of treatment benefit
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
The Washington Post
May 1st, 2019
Trump gets something right about science, even if for the wrong reasons
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
The Washington Post
December 26th, 2018
More science than you think is retracted. Even more should be.
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
American Scientist
March 12th, 2018
Reasonable Versus Unreasonable Doubt
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
JAMA
March 12th, 2018
Institutional Research Misconduct Reports Need More Credibility
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
BMJ Journals
November 30th, 2017
Interpretation of health news items reported with or without spin: protocol for a prospective meta-analysis of 16 randomised controlled trials
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
The Verge
November 27th, 2017
Why are scientists filing lawsuits against their critics?
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
Slate Publication Logo
March 17th, 2017
Bad Incentives Push Universities to Protect Rogue Scientists
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
The Conversation
February 6th, 2017
Should scientists engage in activism?
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
Vox
November 29th, 2016
Why science news embargoes are bad for the public
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence
American Medical Association
December 1st, 2015
How Publish or Perish Promotes Inaccuracy in Science—and Journalism
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Journalist in Residence