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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’

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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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 126.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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 125.

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

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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 124.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.

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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.

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

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.

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

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

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):

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