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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Co-authors of paper on COVID-19 and jade amulets blame ‘the online press’ and social media for misinterpretation in retraction letter
- Two and a half years after findings of misconduct, stem cell researchers up to 19 retractions
- Author initiates “a legal process” against a journal and its publisher after a retraction, expressions of concern
- Publisher infected twice with the same anti-vaccine article
- Science retracts paper co-authored by high-profile scientist and former Dutch minister
- Nature Communications looking into paper on mentorship after strong negative reaction
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 39.
Here’s what was happening elsewhere:
Continue reading Weekend reads: Stem cell trouble?; retractions of articles on a newborn’s death; facial recognition papers draw scrutiny