@bwmol

Create better knowledge for women's' health. Research is not so much on having a big brain, it is about having a big heart. Opinions are my own.

 Melbourne, Australia
research.monash.edu/en/persons/ben-w-mol
Joined February 2012
  • Tweets4.2K
  • Following392
  • Followers1.8K
739Media
Many responses on @SlaveaChankova 's article in @TheEconomist on fraud in medical research. The best one: "It seems crazy to me that the topic of fraudulent medical research was brought up by a non medical journal!" @RetractionWatch economist.com/science-and-te…

There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research

And a worrying unwillingness to do anything about it

economist.com
10
26
3,592
Title: Evidence based Neonatology 2026: Now we have the data, but are they true?
3
267
A great start of the year; could not agree more @JAByrneSci Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
181
Today it is 47 years ago that the worlds second IVF baby was born; October 3rd 1978 in Kolkata, India. The responsible scientist, Subhash Mukherjee, had his claims dismissed and took his life on 19 June 1981. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas…
1
2
588
Ectopic pregnancy pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3966…

Ectopic pregnancy - PubMed

Ectopic pregnancy, defined as the implantation of a developing pregnancy outside of the endometrial cavity of the uterus, is the leading cause of early-pregnancy maternal mortality. The majority of...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
477
The @Nature #MaddoxPrize 2024 winners will be announced tonight! Have you seen the shortlist? This year's judges have chosen 8 inspiring individuals from around the world. Read more about them on our website: senseaboutscience.org/activi…
2024 Maddox Prize shortlist. Top row (left to right) Ann McNeill, Shiba Subedi, Kelly Cobey and Ben Mol. Bottom row (left to right) Sholto David, Carola Vinuesa, Patrick Ball, John Nkengasong.

ALT 2024 Maddox Prize shortlist. Top row (left to right) Ann McNeill, Shiba Subedi, Kelly Cobey and Ben Mol. Bottom row (left to right) Sholto David, Carola Vinuesa, Patrick Ball, John Nkengasong.

7
1
13
1,917
‘People don’t want to talk’: The taboo ‘zombie’ problem in medical science theage.com.au/national/peopl… @HelenaTeede @RuiWangMD @MonashUni @jimgthornton

‘People don’t want to talk’: The taboo ‘zombie’ problem in medical science

Bad science is affecting clinical guidelines, but now an Australian professor has a solution.

theage.com.au
2
5
14
1,352
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
445
Extremely proud to see this paper published thelancet.com/journals/lance… @TuongMHo @rnorman02 @research_hope @RuiWangMD
2
1
10
725
In the NTVG podcast ntvg.nl/podcast/38-waardeloz… @wetenschapsjournalist_anne and I discuss the problem of fabricated RCTs (Dutch)
3
518
Ben Willem Mol retweeted
Tuong M Ho@TuongMHo29 May 2024
We had a good discussion at ASPIRE 2024 Manila
1
4
557
"Ronald Plasterk says he will not seek to become next Dutch PM amid ethics probe." nltimes.nl/2024/05/20/ronald… From 2020: Science retracts paper co-authored by high-profile scientist and former Dutch minister retractionwatch.com/2020/11/…

Ronald Plasterk says he will not seek to become next Dutch PM amid ethics probe

Politician Ronald Plasterk will not become the next prime minister of the Netherlands, he told the Telegraaf. Plasterk, a trained microbiologist who also writes a column for the newspaper, said he is...

nltimes.nl
1
6
18
8,353
Wiley's 'fake science' scandal is just the latest chapter in a broader crisis of trust universities must address abc.net.au/news/2024-05-21/w…

The Wiley scandal illuminates a much bigger crisis of trust confronting universities around the...

Wiley's Hindawi scandal offers a window into a thriving black market of fake science, corrupted research and bogus authorship. It also illuminates a much broader crisis of trust confronting univers...

abc.net.au
5
7
1,305
Some publications of the Dutch prime minister candidate science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… academic.oup.com/nar/article… journals.plos.org/plosbiolog… @PieterOmtzigt @MicrobiomDigest @RPlasterk @nrc @RetractionWatch I leave the reader to interpret retractionwatch.com/2020/11/… pubpeer.com/search?q=plaster…

Retraction

The authors of the Report “Secondary siRNAs result from unprimed RNA synthesis and form a distinct class” (1) have been made aware of duplications in Fig. 2D and supplementary figures S1C and S3C. We...

science.org
4
2
9
7,289
Another good one to start the Saturday Still online sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Courtesy @S_Mastenbroek
3
5
1
14
2,127
Fabricator of the day.... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
1
9
726
Cervical pessary versus vaginal progesterone in women with a singleton pregnancy, a short cervix, and no history of spontaneous preterm birth at less than 34 weeks’ gestation: open label, multicentre, randomised, controlled trial bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2023…

Cervical pessary versus vaginal progesterone in women with a singleton pregnancy, a short cervix,...

Objective To compare the effectiveness of cervical pessary and vaginal progesterone in the prevention of adverse perinatal outcomes and preterm birth in pregnant women of singletons with no prior...

bmj.com
4
11
993
Editorial board members resign from obstetrics journal to protest handling of allegations retractionwatch.com/2024/03/… via @ivanoransky

Editorial board members resign from obstetrics journal to protest handling of allegations

A group of 10 members of the editorial board of BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth have resigned to protest the journal’s failure to respond to allegations of data fabrication. Last week, in an email obt…

retractionwatch.com
10
11
2,605
A great start of the weekend with @MalithaPatabend and @nicolemegan_aux publishing their work @SCSMonash @RolnikDaniel @qianfeng
2
8
729
Ben Willem Mol retweeted
Daniel Rolnik@RolnikDaniel1 Mar 2024
Vaginal misoprostol versus vaginal dinoprostone for cervical ripening and induction of labour: An individual participant data meta‐analysis of randomised controlled trials obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.co… – at Melbourne, Victoria

OBGYN

This article includes Author Insights, a video abstract available at: https://vimeo.com/915799731.

obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
8
33
2,542
Great to see our trial ICSI comparing IVF published in The Lancet on Lunar New Year. Happy year of the Dragon to all my co-authors.. And yes, the cumulative live birth rate is 5% better after IVF @SCSMonash @RuiWangMD ICSI vs cIVF for non-severe male pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3833…

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection versus conventional in-vitro fertilisation for couples with...

National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key Research and Development Program, Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, and Peking University Third Hospital.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
1
2
15
783
Load more