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Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 33.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