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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Publisher retracts nearly 80 articles over three days
- PNAS retracts paper that contributed to lung cancer trial
- ‘I have zero complaints about the process’: Post-publication analysis earns perception paper a flag
- Co-author of paper claiming COVID-19 vaccines linked to miscarriage says he’s retracting it
- Elsevier makes “sand, sun, sea and sex with strangers” paper disappear following criticism. And “Sand, sun, sea and sex with strangers” paper did not need human subjects research protection approval, says author
- Stanford prof fights efforts to make him pay at least $75,000 in legal fees after dropping defamation suit
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 190. There are now more than 31,000 retractions in our database — which now powers retraction alerts in EndNote, Papers, and Zotero. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately?
Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):
Continue reading Weekend reads: An error in a PLOS journal leads to angry calls to Fauci; Jonathan Pruitt placed on leave; Cassava Sciences under SEC investigation