Category: weekend reads

Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Nanoscience researcher loses four papers for image manipulation, forged authors
• Authors earn praise — but a “poorly worded” retraction notice — for flagging their errors
• Why duplicate publications matter: A retraction notice goes above and beyond
• Researchers tried to correct a figure after questions on PubPeer. Then the real trouble started.

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 38.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Scholarly Research Integrity;’ amulet-COVID-19 paper retracted; bad science on voter fraud

Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Paper suggesting vitamin D might protect against COVID-19 earns an expression of concern
• Widely cited COVID-19-masks paper under scrutiny for inaccurate stat
• Dear journal: Here’s the information you left out of your retraction notice. You’re welcome.
• Following Retraction Watch and PubPeer posts, journal upgrades correction to a retraction
• Researchers publish the same COVID-19 paper three times
• Amulets may prevent COVID-19, says a paper in Elsevier journal. (They don’t.)
• Our bads: Publisher error leads to double retractions for psych researchers

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 37.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: A peer review murder mystery for Halloween; learning from #medbikini; inside the publishing ring that linked COVID-19 and 5G

Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• A journal that took six years to retract a paper.
• A researcher who faked the names of co-authors at Duke and the University of Chicago.
• The retraction and replacement of a paper on chronic fatigue in children.
• The retraction of a paper on algebra because of questions about the “integrity of the mathematics.”
• The retraction of a 1974 paper, “Behavioral treatment of deviant sex‐role behaviors in a male child.”

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 37.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: The researcher who publishes a paper every two days; “are publishers learning from their mistakes?”; overcoming COVID-19 misinformation

Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Researchers face disciplinary action as dozens of their studies fall under scrutiny
• Journal retracts paper claiming that group of Indigenous Americans were Black Africans
• In which a researcher named Das plagiarizes from another researcher named Das, one with 20 retractions
• The bizarre anti-vaccine paper a Florida professor has been trying to have retracted to no avail
• Study finding patients of female surgeons fare better is temporarily removed

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 36.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: How retracted work continues to spread; claims of PhD thesis plagiarism in the wine industry; Brexit and research integrity

Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• A retraction — and a lawsuit — for the “Prince of Panspermia“
• A disavowal — but not a retraction — of a paper on intelligent design
• A retraction from Science after authors blame the pandemic for image problems
• The retraction of a 30-year-old paper in a physics journal decrying feminism
• A demand letter sent to Retraction Watch

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 35.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: A prominent journal goes wrong; medical journals and politics; a journal with an editorial board full of dead people

Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Two retractions of an Oxford lab’s papers from a major heart journal
• An excerpt from Brian Deer’s new book about Andrew Wakefield
• The retraction of a bizarre paper about a black hole in the center of the Earth
• A court battle for a duo with a history of legal threats against researchers who use a tool one of them developed

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 33.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: ‘Unicorn poo’ and other fraudulent COVID-19 treatments; disgraced researchers and drug company payouts; a fictional account of real fraud

Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• An exclusive about a case of misconduct at the University of Arizona
• The retraction of a paper on HPV vaccines and preterm birth
• A group of stem cell researchers up to nine retractions
• A retracted retraction, and an apology from the publisher

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 33.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: Steak-umm in the scientific literature; hushed-up COVID-19 data; major award cancelled for 2020

Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• The retraction of 23 papers, and block of 35 more, for a fake alias and plagiarism
• A Springer Nature journal that took eight months to retract a paper after a government misconduct finding
• The retraction of a paper claiming women with endometriosis were more attractive

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 33.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: Retracting racist and sexist work; The Lancet learns from a retraction; Trump administration interferes with publications

Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• An Elsevier book chapter that claims COVID-19 came from space;
• An Elsevier journal that shares concerns about a ‘transparently ridiculous’ genetics paper
• A paper retracted because the references didn’t say what the authors said they did — and because the authors couldn’t come up with the underlying data
• An investigation by Arizona State into two of its former neuroscience researchers

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 32.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: Questions about Russian COVID-19 vaccine data; a p-value pledge; why one author removed her name from a paper

Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• A poultry researcher who’s up to 14 retractions
• A swift expression of concern in Science
• A researcher who objected to being left off a list of bogus co-authors
• An update on a professor’s legal threats against us

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 32.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: A pay-for-peer review movement; toxic PIs; why plagiarism is not a victimless crime