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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Researcher in Japan suspended, demoted for plagiarism
Critics face legal threats as journal takes more than three years to act
Ivermectin meta-analysis to be retracted, revised, say authors
Authors blame a “ghoul” for retraction of paper claiming vaccines lead to health and behavioral issues
Authors — except one — retract 2014 Nature paper on genetics
Authors admit they “published the paper without completely studying their work.”
Attorney asks Retraction Watch to remove post because client has lost out on opportunities
False claims allegations cost Mass General, former Harvard researcher more than $1 million

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 149.

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

Weekend reads: The ethics committee member who sold grades for cash; how to spot misconduct in clinical trials; biotech cited allegedly altered data in grant application

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Should journals retract when an author is sent to prison for a crime unrelated to their work?
Researcher who faked co-authors earns two more retractions, publication ban following Retraction Watch coverage
Neuroscientist’s work earns three expressions of concern
On our 11th birthday, we’d be grateful for your help.

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 147.

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

Weekend reads: The unintended consequences of “trust in science”; Biogen, Aduhelm, and JAMA; how to determine author order, part 592

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Pro-tip: When claiming to use a dataset, make sure it collects what you say it does
Vice-chancellor of university in Pakistan loses paper for plagiarizing from a thesis
Should a researcher who was no longer at an institution when a study began be a co-author?
Prominent behavioral scientist’s paper earns an expression of concern
Science Majorana paper earns an expression of concern
‘A very unfortunate event’: Paper on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy retracted

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 147.

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

Weekend reads: Former dean sent herself threatening letters; what it costs to sue for defamation; what a highly cited paper is worth

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

‘Tortured phrases’, lost in translation: Sleuths find even more problems at journal that just flagged 400 papers
Award-winning nursing researcher’s paper retracted for ‘failure to acknowledge the contribution of other researchers and the funding source’
Two years: That’s how long it took a PLOS journal to flag a paper after a sleuth raised concerns
Journals retract papers following publication of university investigation by Retraction Watch
Two Texas studies on COVID-19 retracted because ‘previously approved study protocols appear to violate IRB guidelines around prisoner research’
When a retraction notice leaves out important details: COVID-19, prisoners, and an IRB

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 147.

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

Weekend reads: Ivermectin study retracted; Sci-Hub and citations; animal welfare violations at chinchilla lab supplier

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Elsevier says “integrity and rigor” of peer review for 400 papers fell “beneath the high standards expected”
‘In hindsight the mistake was quite stupid’: Authors retract paper on stroke
Researcher committed misconduct while at NIH, say institutes — but is allowed to publish a revised version of a paper
Paper from company claiming phototherapy could treat COVID-19 is retracted
‘Please don’t be afraid to talk about your errors and to correct them.’
JAMA journal retracts paper on masks for children

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 144.

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

Weekend reads: How many scientists commit misconduct?; science ‘moved beyond peer review during the pandemic’; Juul pays for entire journal issue

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):

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