Ivan Oransky is an American physician, medical researcher and journalist, known for his advocacy of scientific integrity through improved tracking and institutional reforms.
[14] In 2018, Oransky and Marcus profiled in Science (magazine) two researchers whose investigative work to find inconsistencies in published data has been instrumental in catalyzing retractions.
[15] In August 2023, Oransky and Marcus coauthored op-eds in Scientific American[16] and The Guardian.
[17] In the wake of the resignation of Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Orsnsky and Marcus suggested that scientific misconduct is more common than is reported.
They also assess that, despite recent scandals involving research misconduct, the academic community is not interested in exposing wrongdoing and scientific errors.