Retraction Watch

@RetractionWatch · New York · joined 07 Jan 2011

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94 782Followers

19Following

38 172Posts total

66.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views2 427this account2 747median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.56%this account8.35%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.95%this account1.45%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 427	2 747	0.88×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.56%	8.35%	0.31×
Engagement rate	0.95%	1.45%	0.66×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

2.8K3 Sep

2.6K

3.6K

51.7K

2K4 Sep

2.2K

1.2K

491

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.32%3 Sep

0.53%

0.22%

1.65%

0.92%4 Sep

0.99%

1.69%

2.85%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.45%.

What the audience does

Likes68.8%759 in total

Reposts11.9%131 in total

Replies3.0%33 in total

Quotes3.2%35 in total

Bookmarks13.1%145 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Study by Duke's Dan Ariely retracted after sleuths find signs of data tampering. https://t.co/0ookLNOWYh 491 views · 10 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 @RetractionWatch The level of fake studies in these pseudo scientific humanities psycho courses is insaaane 1.2K views · 21 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 @RetractionWatch If I recall correctly, there were attempts to monetize this study via some self-help mobile apps including by the authors of the study. 2.2K views · 22 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 @RetractionWatch This isn't new. A systems program had a biochemistry Phd. He quit the field when doing post-doctoral research he was pressured to change his data to match the professor's hypothesis. Said he didn't want to be in a profession where he had to lie to succeed 2K views · 16 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 A psychology journal has retracted a seminal 2002 paper on deadlines and procrastination coauthored by Dan Ariely of Duke University just days after a team of sleuths published analyses of the original study data, finding it had been tampered with. https://t.co/0ookLNOWYh 51.7K views · 669 likes · 122 reposts · 30 replies 03 Sep 2026 “Why retractions alone do not protect India’s scientific record.” https://t.co/a80RZuWv6g 3.6K views · 6 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 The U.S. Department of Commerce "quietly cut language banning political interference from the department's scientific integrity policy." https://t.co/tIRWaAxPY0 https://t.co/uVAFNCKowJ 2.6K views · 10 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 "Women make up less than one-fifth of last authorships in elite journals," analysis finds. https://t.co/cMk8MzYes9 2.8K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026