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

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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 87.

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

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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 86.

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

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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 85.

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

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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 85.

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

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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 84.

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

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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 83.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

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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 81.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

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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 76.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

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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?

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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 74.

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