From Jenna Orkin Top UN expert warns of deteriorating situation in Haiti: ‘It’s apocalyptic’ Office Vacancy Rate Nears 20% to Set Fresh Record, Moody’s Says Nobel laureate economist savages his own profession as clueless and unethical Song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry and self-obsessed – study The economics of American lotteries An ‘extremely active’ hurricane season is headed our way, experts warn Rep. Lauren Boebert has emergency surgery, diagnosed with rare disorder during campaign How Steve Bannon guided the MAGA movement’s rebound from Jan. 6 The number of retractions of scientific research papers has grown dramatically in the last two decades to about eight in 10,000 papers, according to a 2022 estimate by the blog Retraction Watch • Rewarding detections of fraud in scientific research and publishing, rather than punishing whistleblowers, could help the research community avoid an estimated 5,000 paper retractions a year--a mere fraction of retractions that should happen but don't, write Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus, the founders of Retraction Watch, a blog that reports on the retraction of scientific papers.