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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- A study finding no evidence of racial bias in police shootings earns a correction that critics call an “opaque half measure”
- Doing the right thing: Researchers retract clinician burnout study after realizing their error
- The circle of life, publish or perish edition: Two journals retract more than 40 papers
- “[I]t took a long time for the scientific community to realize that he was simply making things up”
How many papers about COVID-19 have been retracted? We’ve been keeping track, as part of our database. Here’s our frequently updated list.
Here’s what was happening elsewhere:
Continue reading Weekend reads: A COVID-19 conspiracy theory; a 15-year-old publishes in NEJM; the need for speed