Category: weekend reads

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• a letter about coronavirus retracted from a Lancet journal because it turned out not to be a first-person account, as claimed
• the retraction of a letter about a vaping paper because the author made up a graduate degree
• three more expressions of concern for Hans Eysenck, despite a university’s call for retractions
• a ten-year ban for a former OSU and Academia Sinica researcher

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: A big change in China; revealing a paper mill; plagiarism detection put to the test

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Continue reading Weekend reads: an editor wonders whether data exist, ‘how universities cover up scientific fraud,’ detecting paper mills

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:

• the retraction of a Nature paper by Harvard researchers;
• 13 retractions and 61 expressions of concern for a controversial psychology researcher;
• the temporary withdrawal of a paper on cats and female students;
• a fourth retraction in the STAP stem cell scandal.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: How to squander a $10 million grant; paid to publish; funding lotteries

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:

• the retraction of a preprint on coronavirus;
• a finding of misconduct at Michigan State;
• the resignation of an entire editorial board over a dispute with a journal’s publisher;
• and a former grad student who forged a PI’s authorship — and got smacked down for it.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: Highly cited scientist was manipulating citations; ‘botched and unnecessary’ operations; a flawed coronavirus study

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• growing concerns — and a new retraction — in a case involving spider research that we first reported on two weeks ago;
• an apology in a retraction notice for a paper about apologizers;
• a retraction at NEJM.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: A Harvard prof in handcuffs; an alleged PhD for grant scheme; unethical reviewer behavior outed

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 researcher starting 2020 off with a forthright retraction;
• A journal retracting a 30-year-old paper by a controversial psychologist;
• A look at whether reproducibility has improved.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: Texas A&M vs. Harvard; scientific publishers a “threatened species”; six researchers with “greed and a disregard” for rules

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• A new member of the 100-retraction club;
• A reviewer caught stealing from an unpublished manuscript;
• A publisher who decided to retract two papers after waiting more than a year for a university’s investigation to be completed.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: An ugly fight in nutrition research; embezzling scientists; eyebrow-raising papers in China

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Crossfit being awarded $4 million in sanctions in a case stemming from a now-retracted paper;
• the WHO formally retracting opioid guidelines tainted by conflict of interest;
• the retraction of 17 papers by one journal for citation manipulation.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: 800 retractions from Russia; paying to publish in Vietnam; a retraction involving Facebook, political misinformation, and Teen Vogue

Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads — the first of 2020! — 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:

• The retraction of a Science paper by a Nobel winner;
• Nine retractions at once for a prominent cancer researcher;
• A journal that topped 100 retractions in 2019;
• Findings of misconduct in a case that also included embezzlement of grant funds.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: Advice from an author with 18 retractions; ‘TripAdvisor for peer review’; theft, indictments, and prison

Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads — the last of 2019! — 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:

• The story of what happened when researchers tried to publish a Nature paper 600 times;
• How a plagiarized image in NEJM was discovered;
• A new scam involving special issues of journals;
• Four retractions for an endocrinology researcher in South Korea.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: How to be a statistical detective; a $5.5 million settlement over hidden grants; 15 studies that challenged medical dogma