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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

‘They seem to mean business’: Cardiology journal flags papers cited hundreds of times
Authors of widely panned study of masks in children respond to critics
Researchers forfeit $10,000 award when paper’s findings can’t be replicated
Critique topples Nature paper on belief in gods
University terminates affiliation with researcher who had paper on COVID-19 vaccines retracted as mask study comes under scrutiny
Nature corrects a correction on conflicts of interest in fish farming paper
Publisher won’t retract most papers by chemist editor-in-chief who left university post under a cloud

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 139.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):

Weekend reads: Fraud in gaming vs. fraud in science; ‘a scholarly screw-up of biblical proportions’; pregnant male rats

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

‘A fig leaf that doesn’t quite cover up’: Commission says philosopher engaged in ‘unacknowledged borrowings’ but not plagiarism
Britney Spears story prompts apology from Nature and author. Update.
Journal retracts paper claiming two deaths from COVID-19 vaccination for every three prevented cases. Earlier, and earlier still.
Ten journals denied 2020 Impact Factors because of excessive self-citation or “citation stacking”
A scientist critic was sued, and won — but did not emerge unscathed. This is his story.
How well do databases and journals indicate retractions? Hint: Inconsistently.

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 134.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):

Weekend reads: ‘The obesity wars and the education of a researcher’; zombie research; hijacked journals

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Pulp fiction: Japanese university revokes two dentistry PhDs in case involving two dozen retractions
Most of problematic articles flagged in Japanese university’s investigation remain uncorrected or unretracted nearly a year later
An exercise in frustration: A researcher is impersonated
‘We apologize again for the inadvertent mistakes during the assembly of data due to our carelessness’
Meta: An expression of concern quotes Retraction Watch

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 131.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):

Weekend reads: Biotech CEO on leave after allegations on PubPeer; a researcher disavows his own paper; plagiarism here, there, and everywhere

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

‘A costly mistake’ prompts retraction of paper on hair loss
Widely covered paper on ranitidine-cancer link retracted
Paper by former NIH researcher alleging ‘Ponzi schemes’ by government, pharma retracted
Elsevier glitch prompts temporary removal of critique of review on race and heart disease
‘Galling’: Journal scammed by guest editor impersonator

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 128.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):

Weekend reads: ‘Lab leak’ and journals; a murder rocks Chinese academia; NIH removes lab heads from grants after harassment claims

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Kentucky professor resigns ahead of vote that could have stripped him of tenure
Abstracts flagged because conferences — including one in Wuhan in late 2019 — may not have happened
Meet a sleuth whose work has led to the identification of hundreds of fraudulent papers
Social psychology in the age of retraction
Publisher retracts 20 of a researcher’s papers — then asks him to peer review
PNAS bans author for refusing to share algae strain
US federal watchdog loses director to another government role

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 128.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):

Weekend reads: JAMA editor resigns after review of podcast on racism and medicine; ‘Please Commit More Blatant Academic Fraud’; machine learning’s health credibility crisis

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Two transcendental meditation papers retracted for failures to report primary outcomes.
The peer reviewers and editor wanted to publish my paper. The legal team rejected it.
Exclusive: Six years after a misconduct investigation, more than half of suspect papers remain unflagged.
First, this paper was corrected. Now it has an expression of concern. And maybe, just maybe, it will be retracted.
Medical journal retracts article on “tribalism” after readers call it offensive

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 128.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):

Weekend reads: Gibberish papers persist; the academic who faked Cherokee heritage; ‘organised fraud hits scientific journals’

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

‘Regrettably it took too long to investigate and retract this paper.’
Congratulations! Your already-published article has just been rejected
Antiviral: ‘TikTok Doc’ loses paper on faculty development over concerns about harassment suit
How hijacked journals keep fooling one of the world’s leading databases
Two Japanese universities revoke PhDs, one for plagiarism and one because of cell line contamination
Reporter prompts corrections in Nature, New York Times after researcher fails to disclose ties to Cargill
Elsevier retracts entire book that plagiarized heavily from Wikipedia
Anesthesiology researcher guilty of misconduct in more than 140 papers: Investigation
Imperial College London researcher fired for research misconduct

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 126.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):

Weekend reads: Legal threats, lawsuits, a professor loses emeritus status, and ‘the 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill’

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Paper linking frequency of Google search terms to violence against women retracted
Oh, the gall(stones): A journal should retract a paper on reiki and pain, says a critic
‘The notices are utterly unhelpful’: A look at how journals have handled allegations about hundreds of papers
Paper likening human sperm to “playful otters” retracted
Researcher loses medical degree for using paper mill to write his dissertation
How can universities and journals work together better on misconduct allegations?
‘Preprints are works in progress’: The tale of a disappearing COVID-19 paper

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 126.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):

Weekend reads: Government interference in research; ‘mega’ reviewers; tobacco funding draws scrutiny

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Drug company withdraws court motion requesting retraction of papers critical of its painkiller
“Yep, pretty slow”: Nutrition researchers lose six papers
“We didn’t want to hurt them. We are polite”: When a retraction notice pulls punches
Who owns your thesis data? We do, says one university, prompting retraction
Clinical trial paper that made anemia drug look safer than it is will be retracted
Authors yank ketamine study, hoping it will go away without attention, and journal obliges

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 125.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):

Weekend reads: Allegations about exploitative research; COVID-19 retractions; how to get cited more often

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Ecologist who lost thesis awards earns expressions of concern after laptop stolen
Prominent Chinese scientist failed to disclose company ties in COVID-19 clinical trial paper
Paper on ‘energy medicine’ retracted after reader complaints
Rejection overruled, retraction ensues when annoyed reviewer does deep dive into data
Years after faked peer review concerns surfaced, journals are still falling for it

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 124.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):

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