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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Readers puzzle over marketing journal’s failures to retract
- Doing the right thing: Co-authors of researcher who covered up data fakery retract paper
- Journal retracts more articles for being “unethical, scientifically flawed, and based on racist ideas and agenda”
- Second time’s the charm: The author who requested a retraction twice
- Biotech’s data supporting Alzheimer’s trials under scrutiny
- Guest editor says journal will retract dozens of inappropriate papers after his email was hacked
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 151.
Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):
Continue reading Weekend reads: It’s not all publish or perish?; plagiarism hunters; controls on ‘gain of function’ research weaken