Category: weekend reads

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Diabetes association turmoil roils journal as group tries to thwart boycott
• CEO of AI company loses paper on cognitive impact of generative AI
• Lawsuit over retraction of abortion pill papers heads toward arbitration decision
• Lancet union declares first-ever strike over staff wages
• Paper mill studies get cited by clinical guidelines, policy docs and more, analysis finds

In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 67,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions is approaching 700, and our mass resignations list has more than 50 entries. We keep tabs on all this and more. If you value this work, please consider showing your support with a tax-deductible donation. Every dollar counts.

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Continue reading Weekend reads: An expression of concern for Nobel Prize winner; DOJ official queried journals on ‘partisan’ views; AI research’s ‘synthetic validity’ problem

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Editors of higher education journal coauthor editorial with fake references
• Researchers appeal misconduct finding over studies of trans youth
• PeerJ retracts study that secretly observed tourists’ reactions to snakes
• Editors of French journal on corporate responsibility resign after ownership transfer

In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 67,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions is approaching 700, and our mass resignations list has more than 50 entries. We keep tabs on all this and more. If you value this work, please consider showing your support with a tax-deductible donation. Every dollar counts.

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Continue reading Weekend reads: The afterlife of retracted articles; ADA denies it censored opinions; a ‘twisted phantasmagory’ of ghostwriting

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Study by Duke’s Dan Ariely retracted after sleuths find signs of data tampering
• Journal retracts paper claiming network of corridors inside the Great Pyramid of Giza
• Oxford researchers retract Nature paper on ‘atmospheric thirst’ for calculation errors

In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 67,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions is approaching 700, and our mass resignations list has more than 50 entries. We keep tabs on all this and more. If you value this work, please consider showing your support with a tax-deductible donation. Every dollar counts.

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Continue reading Weekend reads: The AI ghosts ‘contaminating’ academic publishing; court upholds whistleblower suits; Ariely paper retracted after sleuths flag tampering

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Editors of economics journal resign after Elsevier doesn’t renew EIC’s contract
• Guest post: The uncomfortable truth an explosion of papers reveals about authors’ access to data
• Elsevier to ‘soon investigate’ two Macchiarini papers more than a year after retraction request
• Japan institute defends Nobel Prize winner amid allegations of image duplication
• University press removes book about intelligent design for misquoting ID proponent

In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 66,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions is approaching 700, and our mass resignations list has more than 50 entries. We keep tabs on all this and more. If you value this work, please consider showing your support with a tax-deductible donation. Every dollar counts.

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Institute defends Nobel Prize winner; Stanford ex-president tries to refute fraud allegations; cardiologist’s ‘monstrous’ conflict of interest

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Sage issues dozens of retractions from two journals it acquired
• A New Zealand journal deleted a paper for potential harm to Māori months after publishing it
• Ceramics journal pulls dozens of papers flagged for integrity concerns
• Defamation suit demanding Elsevier retract paper heads closer to trial

In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 66,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions is approaching 700, and our mass resignations list has more than 50 entries. We keep tabs on all this and more. If you value this work, please consider showing your support with a tax-deductible donation. Every dollar counts.

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Continue reading Weekend reads:  Senators ask FDA for more oversight following deaths in China clinical trials; image duplication in Alzheimer’s papers; ‘AI Is Ruining Scholarship’

As we were assembling this week’s Weekend Reads, we learned the tragic news that former Cambridge professor Jason Arday had been found dead in his home. Arday has been the subject of several news stories in recent weeks, including at Retraction Watch. We are shocked and saddened by the news of his death. Our hearts are with his friends and family.

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• BMJ Group retracts paper on COVID-19 vaccines and mortality featured in Senate hearing
• Biology journal pulls 100+ articles and counting from special issues for peer review manipulation
• JAMA journal won’t retract oxycodone paper despite author request, citing no ‘falsification’
• Princeton student says she did not conduct the experiments described in her now-retracted paper. A follow-up to our earlier story: A college student had to retract her paper. The move was ‘the starting point for a better study’

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Tragic news on former Cambridge prof; A ‘never AI’ research company was AI after all; OpenAI’s math breakthroughs don’t add up

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Celebrating Retraction Watch’s 16th birthday, how sweet it is
• High-profile anesthesiologists earning retractions for data, image problems
• Meet the inaugural winners of our Ctrl-Z Award, honoring the courage it takes to retract published work
• A composer published a paper on theoretical physics. His lack of credentials drew criticism
• RFK Jr. questions another publisher on expression of concern for a vaccine paper
• Decade-long fraud by market survey firm a ‘gut punch’ for researchers
• Clarivate removes hold on mega-journal Heliyon after internal audit, 650+ retractions

In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 66,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions is up to 650, and our mass resignations list has more than 50 entries. We keep tabs on all this and more. If you value this work, please consider showing your support with a tax-deductible donation. Every dollar counts.

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Second gene editing death in China reported; Jason Arday’s resignation from Cambridge; Retraction Watch’s sweet 16

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Journal, university investigations launched into gene-editing death following Science-Retraction Watch reporting
• Journal investigating apparent data mismatch in climate study
• Exclusive: News outlet killed story on plagiarism allegations after Cambridge prof hired law firm
• Kaggle removes problematic stroke dataset for copyright infringement
• Just over 400 U.S. patents contain citations to retracted scientific papers
• Retraction Watch story exposing research factory fuels investigations, preprint withdrawals, termination
• Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges

In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 66,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions is up to 650, and our mass resignations list has more than 50 entries. We keep tabs on all this and more. If you value this work, please consider showing your support with a tax-deductible donation. Every dollar counts.

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Continue reading Weekend reads: University and journal investigating gene-editing death; ADA ‘must take accountability’; psychedelic therapy paper faces retraction

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Exclusive: A couple’s daughter died after they paid more than $800,000 for a gene-editing therapy — and it wasn’t made public: in collaboration with Science. 
• Publisher investigating peer reviewer for alleged bribery scheme
• Exclusive: Medical student in Nepal behind busy research factory
• Journal retracts breast cancer paper 10 years after sleuth flagged issues
• Editors of economics journal resign after association renews Taylor & Francis contract

In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 66,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions is up to 650, and our mass resignations list has more than 50 entries. We keep tabs on all this and more. If you value this work, please consider showing your support with a tax-deductible donation. Every dollar counts.

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Young girl’s death after gene therapy never made public; FDA retracts lettuce test result; ADA delays editorial publication after controversy

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• ‘Disappointed’: Cochrane journal asked researchers to publish article, then retracted it for conflicts
• A student claimed to have a Ph.D. in at least eight letters to journals. Two have been retracted
• ORI sanction and news coverage prompts sleuthing, retraction
• Sage retracts eight papers by former Radboud ‘rising star’ for compromised peer-review process
• Now, 240: More than a decade later, journals are still retracting Joachim Boldt’s papers
• Harvard cancer researchers earn retraction for image duplication

In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 65,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions is up to 650, and our mass resignations list has more than 50 entries. We keep tabs on all this and more. If you value this work, please consider showing your support with a tax-deductible donation. Every dollar counts.

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Continue reading Weekend reads: Private info in ‘most’ arXiv preprints; why did George Church decline authorship; 28 misconduct cases in China