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The authors of a 2020 paper in Cell are earning plaudits after they retracted the study following the publication of an article last year that contradicted their earlier findings. The paper, “Allosteric Activators of Protein Phosphatase 2A Display Broad Antitumor Activity Mediated by Dephosphorylation of MYBL2,” purported to show that a particular compound could be … Continue reading Doing the right thing: Harvard researchers retract Cell paper after work contradicts finding

A group of researchers in Canada who’d collaborated with a one-time rising star in the bone field have retracted a 2014 article after determining that the data were unreliable. They did so even though the paper was not a focus of the investigations into the work of Abida Sophina “Sophie” Jamal, whose once sparkling career … Continue reading Doing the right thing: Co-authors of researcher who covered up data fakery retract paper

Oh, those insufferably progressive Scandinavians, always doing the right thing.   A group of alcoholism researchers in Denmark has retracted a 2020 paper on gender and alcohol treatment after finding errors in their results. And they’ve set up a system to avoid similar problems in the future.  The paper, “Gender differences in alcohol treatment,” appeared in … Continue reading Doing the right thing: Alcoholism researchers retract six-week old paper after finding errors

A journal is retracting and replacing a 2016 study which found that nearly two-thirds of clinicians who focus on end-of-life care experienced burnout, after the authors found an error that had dramatically inflated the findings.  The article, “Prevalence and predictors of burnout among hospice and palliative care clinicians in the U.S.,” appeared in the Journal … Continue reading Doing the right thing: Researchers retract clinician burnout study after realizing their error

A team of researchers in Europe has retracted a 2016 paper on how people with autism process social cues after finding an error in their analysis. The article, “Social Bayes: using Bayesian modeling to study autistic trait–related differences in social cognition,” appeared in Biological Psychiatry, an Elsevier journal.  The senior author of the paper is … Continue reading Doing the right thing: Authors retract paper on autism and social clues after realizing an error