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Slate retracts essay on whether doctors are biased against obese people

Slate has retracted an essay they published as part of a partnership with Quora, an online question-and-answer site, after acknowledging that they “did not vet the piece properly.” The piece garnered hundreds of comments, many of which questioned whether its claims were legit, and some of which pointed out that the author may have posted … Continue reading Slate retracts essay on whether doctors are biased against obese people

“Breach of warranties” leads to retraction of literacy paper

You’d have to be fairly literate to understand the phrase “breach of warranties,” so it’s a good thing it appears in a retraction notice for paper on literacy itself. The 2012 article, “Information Literacy in Croatia: An Ideological Approach,” appeared in the Journal of Language, Identity & Education, a Taylor & Francis title. The authors … Continue reading “Breach of warranties” leads to retraction of literacy paper

Melendez Science paper retracted, making 13

Alirio Melendez, who has already had 12 papers retracted from various journals and been found guilty of scientific misconduct by a former employer, has had a Science paper retracted. Here’s the notice (which is behind a paywall):

Virtual reality researcher notches fifth retraction

A researcher who studies the use of virtual reality and other media and who has already had four retractions has retracted another paper. The 2007 paper by Dong Hee Shin, then of Penn State University, appeared in Technological Forecasting and Social Change and was titled “Potential user factors driving adoption of IPTV. What are customers … Continue reading Virtual reality researcher notches fifth retraction

“Administrative error on the part of the author” that led to duplicated text prompts retraction

When you think of an administrative error, what comes to mind? Failure to tell an employee that the reason he didn’t receive a paycheck in July was because he was fired in June? Putting the wrong address on your business cards? You’d probably have to go pretty far down the list before you reached something … Continue reading “Administrative error on the part of the author” that led to duplicated text prompts retraction

Computer science paper retracted for plagiarism

Note to computer scientists: a publication is not a reconfigurable logic device. The Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers has retracted a 2010 article by a pair of Iranian researchers who put the paper together using previously published work that, simply put, they reconfigured for their own purposes. The article, “Autonomous Group Testing Based Fault … Continue reading Computer science paper retracted for plagiarism

Danish committee: Researcher acted in “scientifically dishonest” and “grossly negligent” manner

A University of Copenhagen researcher who co-authored papers with Milena Penkowa — once the subject of misconduct and embezzlement inquiries — has been found by the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty (acronym UVVU in Danish) to have acted in a “scientifically dishonest” and “grossly negligent” manner. Two different researchers brought complaints against Bente Klarlund Pedersen … Continue reading Danish committee: Researcher acted in “scientifically dishonest” and “grossly negligent” manner

Authors of retracted sex paper won Ig Nobel for MRI study of coitus — and had another retraction

Yesterday we reported on the retraction for data misuse and plagiarism of a 21-year-old paper on sex and female cancer patients. Turns out we missed a couple of rather interesting details about the authors of the pulled article. One tidbit, for example, is that one of them, Willibrord Weijmar Schultz,  is science royalty, having been a … Continue reading Authors of retracted sex paper won Ig Nobel for MRI study of coitus — and had another retraction

A mega-correction for Rui Curi, whose lawyers threatened to sue Science-Fraud.org

A Brazilian researcher whose legal threats helped lead to the shutdown of Science-Fraud.org and who has had two papers retracted has had to correct another paper. The fourth correction for Rui Curi — and we’d call it a mega-correction — is of a paper in PLOS ONE. Curi is the fourth out of 11 authors; … Continue reading A mega-correction for Rui Curi, whose lawyers threatened to sue Science-Fraud.org