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Why write a blog about retractions?

Post by Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus The unfolding drama of Anil Potti — a Duke researcher who posed as a Rhodes Scholar and appears to have invented key statistical analyses in a study of how breast cancer responds to chemotherapy — has sent ripples of angst through the cancer community. Potti’s antics prompted editors … Continue reading Why write a blog about retractions?

About Ivan Oransky

Thanks for visiting Retraction Watch. I’m Ivan Oransky, Editor in Chief of The Transmitter and Distinguished Journalist In Residence at New York University’s Carter Journalism Institute, where I teach medical journalism in the Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program. The views here do not necessarily represent those of either of those organizations. In the past, … Continue reading About Ivan Oransky