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Weekend reads: Peer review ‘brutality’; COVID-19 vaccine trial scandal; homeopathy researcher admits ‘unethical behavior’

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

25,000: That’s how many retractions are now in the Retraction Watch Database
A longtime whistleblower explains why he’s spent more than a decade trying to get a paper retracted
Beam us up! Elsevier pulls 26 Covid-19 papers by researcher with a penchant for Star Trek
Author, Author! Or perhaps we should say Fake Author, Fake Author!
Paper about calculating ocean currents runs aground
Paper claiming Muslim patients are “particularly sensitive” retracted

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 117.

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 placed on leave pending investigation; Harvard prof sanctioned for Epstein ties; when bad science goes uncorrected

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

“Riddled with errors”: Study of cell phones and breast cancer retracted
Dismissive reviews: A cancer on the body of knowledge
A journal retracts a paper called “transparently ridiculous” — and an author says thank you
Paper claiming presence of SARS-CoV-2 in Italy in 2019 earns expression of concern
Editor who opined on author excuses has paper subjected to an expression of concern
Journal of the paranormal has its first retraction

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 90.

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

Weekend reads: The fake author with more than 200 papers; accusations of ‘heinous plagiarism’; PETA requests a retraction

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Meet the medical resident who had his wife peer review five of his papers
University clears scientist of logging industry’s misconduct allegations
Irony alert: stolen voices, relative rip-off
After grad student suicide, misconduct findings, university suspends professor
“Falsifying elements” prompt retraction of three more papers by former “Peorian of the Year”
Bad blood at a lab leads to retraction after postdoc publishes study without supervisor’s permission

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 89.

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

Weekend reads: A JAMA editor resigns; why correcting the record takes so long; focus on predatory journals

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Journal flags a dozen papers as likely paper mill products a year after sleuths identified them
Authors retract Nature Majorana paper, apologize for “insufficient scientific rigour”
Elsevier journals ask Retraction Watch to review COVID-19 papers
Drug researchers retract two papers, one because “human stem cells were actually mouse stem cells”
Supplement-selling doctor who ran afoul of FDA and state medical board up to 20 retractions

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 87.

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

Weekend reads: An apology from JAMA; a call to retract COVID-19 ayurveda paper; the treasure that was a hoax

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

“I absolutely stand by the validity of the science” says author of energy field paper now flagged by journal
What happened when a group of sleuths flagged more than 30 papers with errors?
“The right decision”: Group retracts Nature Chemical Biology paper after finding a key error
Legal researcher who claimed false affiliation up to 31 retractions
University of New Mexico investigation finds manipulated data and images, prompts retractions
University of Tennessee investigation finds manipulated images in Science paper
An author loses a fifth paper because it “bears the hallmarks of plagiarism”

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 86.

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

Weekend reads: Prof plagiarized student, says investigation; universities mishandle allegations; what we should learn from ‘bad science’

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Meet the postdoc who says he’s been trying to retract his own paper since 2016
Nanotech group that retracted Nature study pulls two more papers
JAMA journal retracts, replaces paper linking nonionizing radiation to ADHD
Former Cleveland Clinic researcher’s papers “more likely than not” included falsified images, says investigation
“Serious non-compliance” prompts retraction of book on social justice in Hawai’i

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 85.

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

Weekend reads: An editorial board resigns over interference; what a manuscript rejection means; the scientific 1%

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Exclusive: Ohio State researcher kept six-figure job for more than a year after a misconduct finding
Widely shared vitamin D-COVID-19 preprint removed from Lancet server
‘No malicious intent’: Authors retract week-old Science Advances paper based on embargoed data
Publisher retracting five papers because of “clear evidence” that they were “computer generated”
Third journal scammed by rogue editors
‘Conference organizers have ignored this:’ How common is plagiarism and duplication in abstracts?

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 85.

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

Weekend reads: “Hot-crazy matrix” paper; “comfort women” controversy; COVID-19 vaccine misinformation

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Eleven papers corrected after nutrition prof fails to disclose patent, company ties
Leading evidence-based group blames pandemic for 9-month delay pulling flawed cancer review
Editors decide not to retract microplastics article but “they feel that it is barely justified”
20 ways to spot the work of paper mills
Why “good PhD students are worth gold!” A grad student finds an error

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 84.

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

Weekend reads: A Holocaust studies misconduct finding; Nature investigating majorana paper; nepotistic journals

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

On COVID-19 PCR testing paper, “the criteria for a retraction of the article have not been fulfilled”
Engineering professor up to nine retractions for image problems
Litigious OSU professor loses appeal in federal defamation case
Okinawa researcher suspended for faking data denies committing misconduct
Mathematician ranked as Clarivate “highly cited researcher” has third paper retracted
Okinawa university suspends researcher for six months following findings of plagiarism and faked data
Researcher to overtake Diederik Stapel on the Retraction Watch Leaderboard, with 61
Journal pulls two studies that listed an author without his permission
Springer Nature to retract chapter on sign language critics call “unbelievably insulting”

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 83.

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

Weekend reads: Women’s authorships bounce back?; scientists go to court; demoted for plagiarism

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

“I don’t think I slept for a day and a half:” Bad news for study about bad news
Here comes the judge, ready to plagiarize your paper
“The whole thing is yucky:” When you’re surprised to find yourself as an author on a paper
‘Immortal time bias’ fells JAMA journal asthma paper
A tale of three journals: Paper retracted when associate editor submits to the wrong title
Former Texas postdoc earns 10-year federal funding ban for faking authors and papers to boost metrics
What is a figure about budgies — aka parakeets — doing in four different plant papers?

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 81.

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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