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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- “I don’t think I slept for a day and a half:” Bad news for study about bad news
- Here comes the judge, ready to plagiarize your paper
- “The whole thing is yucky:” When you’re surprised to find yourself as an author on a paper
- ‘Immortal time bias’ fells JAMA journal asthma paper
- A tale of three journals: Paper retracted when associate editor submits to the wrong title
- Former Texas postdoc earns 10-year federal funding ban for faking authors and papers to boost metrics
- What is a figure about budgies — aka parakeets — doing in four different plant papers?
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 81.
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: Women’s authorships bounce back?; scientists go to court; demoted for plagiarism