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It was a particularly busy week at Retraction Watch, featuring retractions from four of the top journals in the world:
- A retraction from Nature
- The retraction of an Annals of Internal Medicine paper claiming masks didn’t halt the spread of COVID-19
- A group of anesthesiologists losing 10 papers at once
- Retractions from NEJM and Lancet of highly influential COVID-19 papers
Here’s what was happening elsewhere:
Continue reading Weekend reads: Top journals under scrutiny; a toxic legacy; science by press release