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:

• Johns Hopkins student newspaper deletes, then retracts, article on faculty member’s presentation about COVID-19 deaths
• Authors retract Nature paper after realizing some data were “calculated wrongly”
• Subtraction by addition: A journal expresses concern again — but this time, with feeling
• Former Harvard cancer researcher faked a dozen images, say Feds
• Stem cell researcher’s retraction count may near two dozen
• Psychologist’s paper retracted after Dutch national body affirms misconduct findings

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 39.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: Robots come to scientific publishing; questions about a COVID-19 vaccine; funding by lottery

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:

• Co-authors of paper on COVID-19 and jade amulets blame ‘the online press’ and social media for misinterpretation in retraction letter
• Two and a half years after findings of misconduct, stem cell researchers up to 19 retractions
• Author initiates “a legal process” against a journal and its publisher after a retraction, expressions of concern
• Publisher infected twice with the same anti-vaccine article
• Science retracts paper co-authored by high-profile scientist and former Dutch minister
• Nature Communications looking into paper on mentorship after strong negative reaction

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 39.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: Stem cell trouble?; retractions of articles on a newborn’s death; facial recognition papers draw scrutiny

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:

• Journals flag concerns in three dozen papers by nutrition researchers
• Journal drops the ball as it tries to juggle an embargo request and Elsevier’s temporary removal policy
• Author blames “multitasking dementia” for duplicated cancer paper
• Journal that published paper about a black hole at the center of Earth sinks into the void at a leading government database
• Researcher leaves post at Australian university years after papers come under scrutiny

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 38.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: Hydroxychloroquine champion faces ethics charges; a serial plagiarist in philosophy; another author reaches 100 retractions

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