Here’s a good example of a retraction done the right way (we think).
The Journal of the American Chemical Society has retracted — at the behest of the principal investigator — a 2008 article by a group of researchers whose subsequent studies undermined their confidence in the validity of their initial findings.
The article was titled “Cooperative melting in caged dimers of rigid small molecule DNA-hybrids,” and it came from the lab of SonBinh Nguyen, of Northwestern University. As the paper’s abstract stated:
Continue reading We know why the caged dimers sing: They’re being retracted