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Nature Communications retracts much-criticized paper on mentorship retractionwatch.com/2020/12/…
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That paper with the ‘T’ error bars was just retracted retractionwatch.com/2022/12/…
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An Elsevier paper written by ChatGPT goes viral.
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🤖 So #ChatGPT wrote the first sentence of this @ElsevierConnect article. Any other parts of the article too? How come none of the coauthors, Editor-in-Chief, reviewers, typesetters noticed? How can this happen with regular peer-review? pubpeer.com/publications/CAA…
ALT https://pubpeer.com/publications/CAABBF887348FB2D1C0329E0A27BE6
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"Scientific articles that get downloaded from the scholarly piracy website Sci-Hub tend to receive more citations, according to a new study..."
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"Scientific articles that get downloaded from the scholarly piracy website Sci-Hub tend to receive more citations, according to a new study..."
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That paper with the ‘T’ error bars was just retracted.
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PLOS flags nearly 50 papers by controversial French COVID researcher for ethics concerns retractionwatch.com/2022/12/…
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Sci-Hub creator Alexandra Elbakyan discusses “the legal issues between Elsevier and Sci-Hub around the world, and the tension between piracy and sharing.”
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Hydroxychlorine-COVID-19 study did not meet publishing society’s “expected standard” retractionwatch.com/2020/04/…
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Remember that paper with the ‘T’ error bars? It was just retracted.
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Another ivermectin-COVID-19 retraction, this one of a paper by @SabinehazanMD @P_McCulloughMD et al. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
It's the 12th for the drug, among the 467 retractions of COVID-19 papers on our list.
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That paper no one could stop talking about for 24 hours (scienceintegritydigest.com/2…) has been retracted.
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PLOS flags nearly 50 papers by controversial French COVID researcher for ethics concerns.
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Paper claiming a lack of evidence COVID-19 lockdowns work is retracted retractionwatch.com/2021/12/…
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Controversial French researcher loses two papers for ethics approval issues retractionwatch.com/2023/10/…
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Scholars in Malaysia are no longer allowed to use public funds to publish articles in journals owned by MDPI, Hindawi and Frontiers.
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"The plagiarism is proven, we propose to withdraw his doctorate."
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COVID-19-vitamin D paper retracted by Springer Nature journal retractionwatch.com/2022/04/…
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Elsevier journal to retract 2012 paper widely derided as racist retractionwatch.com/2020/06/…
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Journals retract six @raoult_didier papers for ethics violations retractionwatch.com/2024/01/…
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Faked data prompts retraction of Nature journal study claiming creation of a new form of carbon.
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Nature Communications looking into paper on mentorship after strong negative reaction retractionwatch.com/2020/11/…
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Hydroxychloroquine-COVID-19 paper we first reported on in April 2020 (retractionwatch.com/2020/04/…) should be retracted: Letter.
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That paper with the ‘T’ error bars was just retracted.
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Once upon a time, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched. Fifteen years and 6,700 posts later, that work seems more important than ever.
Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch.
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Psychology journal retracts two articles for being “unethical, scientifically flawed, and based on racist ideas and agenda” retractionwatch.com/2020/12/…
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It is a *big* day for Retraction Watch.
@CrossrefOrg has acquired the Retraction Watch Database and opened it for the scientific community!
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A reflection on how we got here -- and how important this is for RW.
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The editorial board of a journal in Peru resigned after a university official asked for the editor to be fired after he did not publish work promoting ivermectin for COVID-19.
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Co-author of paper claiming COVID-19 vaccines linked to miscarriage says he’s retracting it retractionwatch.com/2021/11/…
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Eleven years ago today, @TheLancet retracted the Wakefield autism-vaccine paper.
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Controversial French researcher loses two papers for ethics approval issues.
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Marseille prosecutor finds no grounds to prosecute Elisabeth Bik after Didier Raoult complaints.
Yay!
Three years after @raoult_didier @Pr_Chabriere_E and @IHU_Marseille filed a complaint against me for harassment and blackmail, the Marseille Procureur tells me today they could not find any grounds for criminal prosecution.
ALT Letter stating: Vu l'article 40-1 du code de procédure pénale; L'examen de cette procédure ne justifie pas de poursuite pénale au motif que: Les faits ou les circonstances des faits de la procédure n'ont pu être clairement établis par l'enquête. Les preuvres ne sont donc pas suffisantes pour que l'infraction soit constituée, et que des poursuites pénales puissent être engagées. Veuillez agréer, Madame, l'expression de mes salutations distinguées. ** Translation (Google Translate): ** Considering article 40-1 of the code of criminal procedure; Examination of this procedure does not justify criminal prosecution on the grounds that: The facts or circumstances of the proceedings could not be clearly established by the investigation. The evidence is therefore not sufficient for the offense to be established and criminal proceedings to be initiated. Please accept, Madam, the expression of my distinguished greetings.
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The Lancet adds conflict of interest information for Peter Daszak, who is embroiled in the “lab leak” debate.
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Hydroxychloroquine, push-scooters, and COVID-19: A journal gets stung, and swiftly retracts retractionwatch.com/2020/08/…
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Neri Oxman accused of lifting from article whose plagiarism led to downfall of concussion expert retractionwatch.com/2024/01/…
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Exclusive: Psychology researcher loses PhD after allegedly using husband in study and making up data retractionwatch.com/2024/04/…
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By our count, at least ten papers about ivermectin and COVID-19 have been retracted. A 🧵retractionwatch.com/retracte…
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Another ivermectin-COVID-19 retraction of a paper with a massive Altmetric score. This one happened in September but was undated until we asked Springer Nature when it was retracted. nature.com/articles/s41429-0…
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A paper used capital T’s instead of error bars. But wait, there’s more! retractionwatch.com/2022/12/…
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"Journal citation reports and the definition of a predatory journal: The case of the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)."
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EcoHealth Alliance retracts and replaces paper on potential origin of COVID-19 in bats.
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Fighting coordinated publication fraud is like ‘emptying an overflowing bathtub with a spoon,’ study coauthor says.
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Journal retracts more than 50 studies from Saudi Arabia for faked authorship retractionwatch.com/2024/01/…
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Didier Raoult loses in court, ordered to pay 2,000 euros.
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Exclusive: PLOS ONE to retract more than 100 papers for manipulated peer review retractionwatch.com/2022/08/…
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Elsevier looking into “very serious concerns” after student calls out journal for fleet of Star Trek articles, other issues retractionwatch.com/2020/12/…
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A new preprint estimates "that, globally, a total of $8.349 billion ($8.968 billion in 2023 US dollars) were spent on [article processing charges] APCs between 2019 and 2023. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
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Paper claiming a lack of evidence COVID-19 lockdowns work is retracted.
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That paper with the ‘T’ error bars was just retracted.
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At least 15 doctors whose names were on a petition supporting hydroxychloroquine advocate Didier Raoult say they were forged.
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"Things I'd Like To See Written In Scientific Papers." A list from the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal cartoon.
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Announcing the Elisabeth Bik Science Integrity Fund.
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Embattled researcher Didier Raoult earns 100 more expressions of concern and another retraction retractionwatch.com/2024/04/…
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Elsevier reopens investigation into controversial hydroxychloroquine-COVID paper retractionwatch.com/2024/06/…
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"Publishing negative results is good for science," writes Elisabeth Bik.
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We're delighted to report that @EndNoteNews users will now be notified of retractions of any publications in their library, thanks to the integration of our database.
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"Didier Raoult loses his defamation case against Marseille hospital director.”
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Our previous Raoult coverage.
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That paper with the ‘T’ error bars was just retracted.
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Controversial French researcher loses two papers for ethics approval issues.
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Didier Raoult papers earn expressions of concern as criminal investigation gets underway retractionwatch.com/2022/09/…
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“Belgian researchers chose to bypass all standard science publishing protocols to publish research that has been overhyped and isn’t well understood.” vice.com/en_us/article/v74az…
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“The plagiarism is proven, we propose to withdraw his doctorate.”
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Didier Raoult papers earn expressions of concern as criminal investigation gets underway.
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“Activist Archivists Are Trying to Save the ‘Pirate Bay of Science.’”
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“Springer Nature Portfolio has launched a “Discover” series of journals that seem to deliberately and systematically mimic the MDPI brand.”
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Neri Oxman accused of lifting from article that had already been plagiarized.
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Following outrage, chemistry journal makes a paper decrying diversity efforts disappear retractionwatch.com/2020/06/…
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"If we were all restricted to two papers per year," says @deevybee, "the literature would improve markedly." #metascience2019
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"Embattled Harvard honesty professor accused of plagiarism."
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15. That's how many papers about COVID-19 have been retracted so far. retractionwatch.com/retracte…
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"Scientific articles that get downloaded from the scholarly piracy website Sci-Hub tend to receive more citations, according to a new study..."
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An Earlier Take: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/…
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A study that claimed masks harm is retracted.
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A thread on its problems.
This systematic review and meta analysis on mask harms has gone viral recently as it purports to show negative impacts of masking on various pathological factors
It is, unfortunately, filled with serious errors and issues 1/n
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Researchers find nearly 30% of papers “that stated significances (or their absence) are based on the presence of a single influential data point.”
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Paper that found ‘climate crisis’ to be ‘not evident yet’ retracted after re-review retractionwatch.com/2023/08/…
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"Detecting fraud ‘is a job for professionals, not peer reviewers."
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Journals retract six Didier Raoult papers for ethics violations.
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"Simply contributing data to a study or serving as a representative of a research consortium does not alone fulfill criteria for authorship...Authorship must not be bestowed in an honorary fashion," say @JAMA_current editors. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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Thousands demand withdrawal of review article recommending exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome
@DalmeetS reports
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“ChatGPT writes believable scientific abstracts, though with completely generated data.”
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Paper recommending vitamin D for COVID-19 retracted four years after expression of concern retractionwatch.com/2024/06/…
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Scholars in Malaysia are no longer allowed to use public funds to publish articles in journals owned by MDPI, Hindawi and Frontiers.
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EcoHealth Alliance retracts and replaces paper on potential origin of COVID-19 in bats
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Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations.
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Controversial French researcher Didier Raoult loses two papers for ethics approval issues.
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“I do wish that journal editors would not take six years to perform an investigation and to retract.” retractionwatch.com/2020/10/…
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"Much of the research that emerges in the coming weeks will be turn out to be unreliable, even wrong. We'll be OK if we remember that." Our @ivanoransky and @armarcus in @WIRED. wired.com/story/the-science-…
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Springer Nature retracts book with fake citations. Help us find more cases like this.
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Blaming “overflow of manuscripts” and “obviously biased” reviewers, journal will retract homeopathy-COVID-19 paper retractionwatch.com/2020/07/…
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Sleuths such as @MicrobiomDigest @DavidSandersRep @jamesheathers @sTeamTraen "should be compensated and given access to tools to improve the hunt for errors and fraud — not face ridicule, harassment and legal action." nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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After a journal banned p values, "We found multiple instances of authors overstating conclusions beyond what the data would support if statistical significance had been considered." #metascience2019 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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