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

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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 83.

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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 81.

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Weekend reads: Scientist in China cleared of plagiarism and fraud charges; “what my retraction taught me;” researcher sued for >$1.5 million for unpaid legal bills in failed defamation cases

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Exercise science grad student at Australian university dismissed after he admitted faking data, says supervisor
‘Striking’: Journal editor suspects paper mills behind rash of withdrawn manuscripts
Publisher retracting 68 articles suspected of being paper mill products
Why one biologist says it’s not too late to retract the “arsenic life” paper
The mill and the loss: Journal up to 39 retractions from paper mill articles

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 76.

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Weekend reads: Pollution of COVID-19 research; climate papers lead to reassignment; time to publish less?

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

“The most horrific time of my career.” What do you do when you realize years of your published work is built on an error?
“Confrontation is an important element of physics progress:” Paper on black holes retracted
Springer Nature journal retracts BMI, honesty paper. The first author calls the move “deeply unfair.”
Journal expresses concern over study of potential treatment for autism
“There can be no justification for such studies”: Paper on artificial eyes for dogs earns expression of concern

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 75.

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Weekend reads: How COVID-19 has changed publications; peer review and women; is ‘manuscript recycling’ OK?

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Journal becomes “victim of an organized rogue editor network”
Researcher linked to author with 52 retractions loses a paper for duplication
PLOS ONE retracts paper purporting to be about lung ultrasound for COVID-19 but that had suspicious overlap with pre-pandemic article
JAMA journal retracts its first paper, on exercise and heart disease
“This retraction is one of the fastest I ever experienced after reporting a paper to a journal editor.”
Columbia grad student faked data in study of socioeconomics and life experiences, says retraction notice
Holy cow: “The article as written contains misleading information and omits important details.”

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 74.

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Weekend reads: The backstory of a Nature retraction; an author salutes her favorite review of 2020; vaping-COVID-19 link questioned

Welcome to the first Weekend Reads of 2021. 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:

Medical writer loses COVID-19-cancer paper for plagiarism
Psychology paper retracted after creators of tool allege “serious breach of copyright”
Psychology journal retracts two articles for being “unethical, scientifically flawed, and based on racist ideas and agenda”
List of retracted COVID-19 papers grows past 70
A look back at retraction news in 2020 — and ahead to 2021

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 72.

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Weekend reads: $1.5 million payout after failure to disclose conflicts; systematic review retractions; entire class penalized for cheating

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