What retractions grabbed the most attention in 2022?
As we’ve now done for a decade, we took a look through the year’s stories about retractions for our friends at The Scientist and gathered the ten that seemed to most capture the limelight. As we write there, the cases ranged from “typo-laden code in psychedelics research to paper mills and plagiarism.”
Head over and take a look.
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The link isn’t working, it gives a 404 error. Has The Scientist retracted your story about retractions? 😉
There was a temporary glitch, it’s live again. Thanks.
I think science can find the way on its own. Your work also has high value.
However, it wouldn’t be a good idea to concentrate TOO MUCH on this area. Instead of identifying the problem’s root cause and attempting to fix it, the focus should not go on hunting down the cheaters.
The cheaters are potentially training a new fresh generation of those who will see academic fraud as a way ahead for advancing their careers.
The cheaters are doing harm by wasting the time of other researchers & precious grant funding money [our taxes at work!].
The cheaters are slowing the progress of advances in medicine & potentially harming patients because of their published falsified findings.
These are three extremely good reasons to hunt them down.
Of course, this work contributes to the refinement of some of the previously released data. Furthermore, researchers are being warned to pay closer attention to the presented data.
However, what I attempted to explain is the question of whether the emphasis should be on solutions or problems.
For example, when publication becomes the first priority and the goal of work, these issues will inevitably arise, and this atmosphere appears to be strengthening.