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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 128.

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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 128.

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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 126.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Weekend reads: COVID-19 issue pulled; an author announces a retraction; FDA sanctions a company for not publishing results

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Editor declines to correct paper with duplicated image after earlier study disappears
Elsevier journal to retract widely debunked masks study whose author claimed a Stanford affiliation
Journal retracts paper by ‘miracle doctor’ claiming life force kills cancer cells
On the perils of scientific collaboration from thousands of miles away
Mask study was “misleading” and misquotes citations, says Elsevier
Paper partly funded by controversial stem cell company retracted

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 122.

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

Weekend reads: Prof resigns as student’s suicide is investigated; the ‘Stanford’ mask study that Stanford disowned; indictments and a prison sentence

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

“[N]o intention to make any scientific fraud” as researchers lose four papers
‘Unfair and unsubstantiated’: Journal retracts paper suggesting smoking is linked to lower COVID-19 risk
Two retractions spotlight the ethical challenges of consent for case reports

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 122.

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Weekend reads: ‘The Damage Campaign;’ timber industry retracts comments, apologizes; COVID-19 vaccine study conflicts disclosure

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Palmitoleic acid paper pulled for data concerns
Pharma company demands retraction, damages in lawsuit against journal
You want to do what? Paper on anal swabs for COVID-19 retracted for ethical issues
University in Japan revokes doctorate for plagiarism of text, image
One in six of the papers you cite in a review has been retracted. What do you do?
The rector who resigned after plagiarizing a student’s PhD thesis

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 121.

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

Weekend reads: Faked data in psychology; publishing in predatory journals = misconduct?; how scientists take criticism

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Seven barred from research after plagiarism, duplications in eleven papers
An author asked for multiple corrections to a paper. PLOS ONE decided to retract it.
Researcher charged with abusing his wife has third paper retracted
Apparent HeLa cell line mixup earns a paper an expression of concern
Anesthesiologist loses 50 more papers in 12 months

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 117.

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