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:

• 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.

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:  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’

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: 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 

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

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Ethics journal retracts paper by high school student for AI, peer review manipulation
• Former acting director of national lab in India up to nine retractions
• Springer Nature has restored two papers by Max Planck, reversing a 2011 decision to retract the articles
• Judge dismisses Splenda lawsuit, says courts wrong place for research debate
• Exclusive: Sage to retract multiple articles by dismissed rising star for “compromised” peer-review process
• ‘The exploitation still remains’: Stats journal associate editors resign over $3,000 publishing charge

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: Neuroscientist found not guilty of misconduct; when editors revolt; a Waffle House study walkback 

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

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Physicist in Iraq fired over publishing scam claims fake Columbia affiliation in new paper
• Sex pay ban paper earns a retraction after a long and winding road for an unhappy author
• Editors of Courant math journal to leave Wiley, establish new roots with independent publisher
• Computer science society creates new research integrity role to address case backlog

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: Taylor Swift teaches botany; NEJM retracts key study in Amgen drug; hidden prompts at conference ‘snare AI peer reviews’

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

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Springer Nature to start issuing expressions of concern for books
• A prolific evolutionary biologist caught faking data decades ago notches a new retraction
• Major citation index put surgery journals on hold following Retraction Watch investigation
• Increasing workload may have contributed to recent retraction at nursing journal, editor says

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.

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: A tsunami of misleading medical studies; retraction calls cancer therapy timing into question; a closer look at Max Planck’s retractions

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

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Publisher investigating two more papers on glyphosate safety over ghostwriting claims
• Economist outs another Indian university’s rankings-boosting scheme when they refuse to pay him
• Journal investigating paper on cognitive impact of generative AI
• Some Wikipedia citations to retracted papers persist for years, study finds
• RFK Jr. has various stances on retractions. Critics say he’s ‘politicizing’ them

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.

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: Media star loses doctorate for plagiarism; journal editor resigns for AI concerns; university removes dean for fabricating data