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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Elsevier says “integrity and rigor” of peer review for 400 papers fell “beneath the high standards expected”
- ‘In hindsight the mistake was quite stupid’: Authors retract paper on stroke
- Researcher committed misconduct while at NIH, say institutes — but is allowed to publish a revised version of a paper
- Paper from company claiming phototherapy could treat COVID-19 is retracted
- ‘Please don’t be afraid to talk about your errors and to correct them.’
- JAMA journal retracts paper on masks for children
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 144.
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: Ivermectin study retracted; Sci-Hub and citations; animal welfare violations at chinchilla lab supplier