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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- “The most horrific time of my career.” What do you do when you realize years of your published work is built on an error?
- “Confrontation is an important element of physics progress:” Paper on black holes retracted
- Springer Nature journal retracts BMI, honesty paper. The first author calls the move “deeply unfair.”
- Journal expresses concern over study of potential treatment for autism
- “There can be no justification for such studies”: Paper on artificial eyes for dogs earns expression of concern
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 75.
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: Pollution of COVID-19 research; climate papers lead to reassignment; time to publish less?