Weekend Reads: Nobel defense, Stanford rebuttal, and ethics in science publishing

Retraction Watch’s Weekend Reads roundup covers the Institute defending a Nobel Prize winner amid image-duplication allegations, a former Stanford president publicly rebutting fraud claims, and a cardiologist’s controversial conflicts of interest in guideline creation, alongside a broad mix of publishing-news—from editors’ resignations and data-access debates to AI’s role in research integrity and new tools to detect fraud.