Category: weekend reads

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• A political science professor who is now up to eight retractions for plagiarism
• A researcher who found the retraction of his paper “Kafkian“
• A look at how slow journals can be to correct the record — and why that matters.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: Disgraced surgeon earns prison sentence; politicians and plagiarism; parents who help their kids cheat

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 look at why an infamous paper on autism and vaccines continues to be cited;
• A journal that decided to play it safe instead of retracting a paper;
• The lifting of sanctions on Duke University following concerns about how they handled cases of misconduct.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: Double-dipping with industry funding; a bully is rehired; organized crime scholar charged with money laundering

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 30-year-old paper cited by creationists;
• A chemistry paper retracted after ten years of being in limbo;
• An accounting paper corrected for methodology that “does not generate the results;”
• The story of what happened when reviewers asked authors to change their study design.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: Falsified authorship; allegations about more than 200 papers; honoring an exploitative scientist

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:

• two investigations at King’s College London that found “poor research practices“
• a five-year ban on federal U.S. funding for a researcher who reused images over and over again
• sanctions for a former Johns Hopkins postdoc for data fabrication

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: Is nutrition science the worst-performing science?; gender bias in peer review; the Sherlock Holmes of science fraud

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 rare permanent ban on U.S. federal research funding for a lab tech at the center of the Duke case;
• A look at whether 61 likely retractions for a controversial psychologist is a low estimate;
• A university giving the task of clearing a researcher of misconduct to one of his frequent co-authors;
• A glaring conflict of interest for the academic editor of a paper published in PLOS ONE.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: Grad student who alleged discrimination dismissed; academics who play dumb; when papers cite predatory works

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• an author irked about “science by tweet” after his paper is flagged;
• an author irked by Elsevier’s decision to retract nine of his papers for fake peer review;
• a researcher who is no longer in his job following a misconduct finding;
• the retraction of a paper questioning the link between HIV and AIDS years after criticism.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: Scientist loses job after 30 retractions; breast cancer researcher committed misconduct; “two crashes” at Duke

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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• the retraction of a study that claimed high heels made women more attractive;
• an update from a whistleblower in a case involving 30 retractions;
• a journal’s NBA moment;
• an investigation at a Harvard cancer lab;
• and a major milestone for our database.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: A costly code glitch; sparks fly over a heart trial; cancer researcher faced five investigations

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The week at Retraction Watch featured a university’s findings that dozens of papers by a famous psychologist were “unsafe;” a researcher who will soon be up to 30 retractions; and a psychology professor who took an unusual opportunity to try to undermine her critics. Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: A CRISPR retraction; questions about football concussion data; an ethicist who has led to more than 20 retractions

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The week at Retraction Watch featured a case of doing the right thing in autism research; two more retractions for a formerly high-profile Harvard stem cell researcher; and the retraction of a paper claiming that a religious upbringing is linked to less generosity. Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: The need for more honesty in science; a fight between authors of a GM mosquito paper; faked academic CVs

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The week at Retraction Watch featured lots of news involving Nature, including the retraction of a paper on ocean warming and the journal’s rescinding of a mentoring award. It also included a sterling example of the post hoc fallacy. Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: Jailed for publishing a paper; pushing back on vaping research; “sugar daddy science”