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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- A retraction — and a lawsuit — for the “Prince of Panspermia“
- A disavowal — but not a retraction — of a paper on intelligent design
- A retraction from Science after authors blame the pandemic for image problems
- The retraction of a 30-year-old paper in a physics journal decrying feminism
- A demand letter sent to Retraction Watch
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 35.
Here’s what was happening elsewhere:
Continue reading Weekend reads: A prominent journal goes wrong; medical journals and politics; a journal with an editorial board full of dead people