Category: weekend reads

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 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• A reviewer caught stealing from an unpublished manuscript;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

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:

• 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

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 paper claiming a link between the HPV vaccine and lower pregnancy rates;
• Whistleblowers in a recent case speaking out;
• Two expressions of concern for a Cambridge researcher;
• The retraction of a paper on creativity for duplication.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: Stolen identity and peer review; key heart data concealed; psychology’s ‘collective self-deception’

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:

• Researchers suing a journal over a retraction;
• A publisher retracting nearly 50 papers at once;
• A psychology researcher who committed misconduct, according to her former university;
• Two retractions of papers claiming a link between exposure to violence and aggressive behavior.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Continue reading Weekend reads: Leading stem cell researcher’s work under scrutiny; faked drug trial data; troubling China practice snares publisher

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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