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It’s official: Anil Potti faked cancer research data, say Feds

Following five years of scrutiny, more than ten retractions, multiple settled lawsuits, and medical board reprimands, we may finally have some resolution on the case of Anil Potti, the once-rising cancer research star who resigned from Duke in 2010. While there have been numerous allegations of misconduct in Potti’s work, and strong comments to that effect by … Continue reading It’s official: Anil Potti faked cancer research data, say Feds

Malpractice case against Duke, Anil Potti settled

A lawsuit filed in October 2011 against Duke University and Anil Potti, who has retracted 11 papers and corrected a number of others amidst investigation into his work, has been settled, Retraction Watch has learned. Potti resigned from Duke in 2010 following questions about his work, and revelations that he had lied on grant applications … Continue reading Malpractice case against Duke, Anil Potti settled

RIP, Ed Rickards: Duke watchdog who covered Anil Potti case dies at 72

It’s unusual for us to post obituaries on Retraction Watch — we’ve published just one so far in three-and-a-half years — but we wanted to pause for a moment to note the passing of a tireless crusader for transparency and accountability whose electronic path crossed with ours a number of times since 2012 because of … Continue reading RIP, Ed Rickards: Duke watchdog who covered Anil Potti case dies at 72

Anil Potti posts restored to Retraction Watch following false DMCA claim

As expected, ten Retraction Watch posts about Anil Potti that were mistakenly removed for a false Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice have been restored. Automattic, which runs WordPress, notified us tonight of the move, which comes two weeks after the original notice. The claim against Retraction Watch was ridiculous, of course; a site … Continue reading Anil Potti posts restored to Retraction Watch following false DMCA claim

Anil Potti tells Retraction Watch he wasn’t behind DMCA takedown notices of posts about him

We have an update on an evolving and puzzling story involving our posts about Anil Potti that have been temporarily removed from Retraction Watch. Someone claiming to be Anil Potti — and whom we have good reason to believe is actually him, for reasons we’ll get into — emailed us tonight to say that he … Continue reading Anil Potti tells Retraction Watch he wasn’t behind DMCA takedown notices of posts about him

Another site hit with DMCA takedown notice for post about Anil Potti

Retraction Watch readers may recall that earlier this month, WordPress removed ten of our posts about Anil Potti — the former Duke oncology researcher who has retracted or corrected 19 papers — after a false DMCA copyright claim against us. The site which claimed the copyright violations — and which no longer exists — actually plagiarized … Continue reading Another site hit with DMCA takedown notice for post about Anil Potti

WordPress removes Anil Potti posts from Retraction Watch in error after false DMCA copyright claim

If you went looking for ten of our posts about Anil Potti today, you would have seen error messages instead. That’s because someone claiming to be from a news site in India alleged we violated their copyright with those ten posts about the former Duke University cancer researcher who has had 19 papers retracted, corrected, … Continue reading WordPress removes Anil Potti posts from Retraction Watch in error after false DMCA copyright claim

Another retraction for Anil Potti, with an inscrutable notice

We’ve seen a lot of retraction notices for work by Anil Potti — 10, to be precise, along with 7 corrections and one partial retraction notice. As notices go, they tend to be pretty complete. So when we saw one in CHEST for this 2008 abstract, we were expecting something similar. Instead, we were confused. … Continue reading Another retraction for Anil Potti, with an inscrutable notice