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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Editor declines to correct paper with duplicated image after earlier study disappears
- Elsevier journal to retract widely debunked masks study whose author claimed a Stanford affiliation
- Journal retracts paper by ‘miracle doctor’ claiming life force kills cancer cells
- On the perils of scientific collaboration from thousands of miles away
- Mask study was “misleading” and misquotes citations, says Elsevier
- Paper partly funded by controversial stem cell company retracted
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 122.
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: COVID-19 issue pulled; an author announces a retraction; FDA sanctions a company for not publishing results