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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Exclusive: How a researcher faked data and gaslit a labmate for years
- COVID-19 spike protein paper earns an expression of concern
- Frontiers retracts a dozen papers, many more expected
- Authors to correct PNAS ‘nudge’ paper that cites now-retracted article in the same journal
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 206. There are now more than 32,000 retractions in our database — which now powers retraction alerts in EndNote, Papers, and Zotero. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers?
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 White House official’s retraction; ‘bosom peril;’ nonsense with a forged authorship