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Rice researcher in ethics scrape threatens journal with lawsuit over coming retraction

Guangwen Tang, a rice researcher at Tufts University, landed in hot water in 2012 after her team was accused of feeding Chinese children genetically modified Golden Rice without having obtained informed consent from the parents. Now, she’s suing both Tufts and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, which reportedly is retracting a paper, “ß-carotene in Golden Rice is as good … Continue reading Rice researcher in ethics scrape threatens journal with lawsuit over coming retraction

Weekend reads: Peer review unreliable? Merck retracts legal threats over criticism

Another busy week at Retraction Watch, with a lot of media attention to a story about 60 retractions at a single journal for peer review fraud, and our op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times. Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Retraction prompts letter of explanation by co-author — and a legal threat against Retraction Watch

The European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging has an interesting exchange of retraction-related notices in its pages. The article, “Neuroradiological advances detect abnormal neuroanatomy underlying neuropsychological impairments: the power of PET imaging,” appeared in 2011 and was written by Benjamin Hayempour and Abass Alavi, one of the pioneers in PET imaging. According to … Continue reading Retraction prompts letter of explanation by co-author — and a legal threat against Retraction Watch

Fernández genetics paper in limbo over data concerns

Ariel Fernández, the protein researcher whose theories of drug design lately have come in for questioning, has lost a paper, at least for the moment. The article, “Supramolecular Evolution of Protein Organization,” appeared online in Annual Reviews of Genetics prior to print. It lists Fernández’s affiliation as ProWD Sciences, in Madison, Wisc. Not much exists … Continue reading Fernández genetics paper in limbo over data concerns

Plant journals uproot duplicate publications that authors used as a hedge

A group of researchers in India has lost two articles in the plant literature for shenanigans with duplicate submission. One article, “Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation and efficient regeneration of a timber yielding plant Dalbergia sissoo Roxb,” appeared online last June in the journal. The authors were from institutions in Orissa. According to the retraction notice, the paper … Continue reading Plant journals uproot duplicate publications that authors used as a hedge

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

Half of researchers have reported trouble reproducing published findings: MD Anderson survey

Readers of this blog — and anyone who has been following the Anil Potti saga — know that MD Anderson Cancer Center was the source of initial concerns about the reproducibility of the studies Potti, and his supervisor, Joseph Nevins, were publishing in high profile journals. So the Houston institution has a rep for dealing … Continue reading Half of researchers have reported trouble reproducing published findings: MD Anderson survey

Streisand Effect meets tough editors as journal retracts already-corrected paper by Rui Curi

Rui Curi — the Brazilian scientist who threatened to sue the now-shuttered Science-Fraud.org site for criticizing his work — has rung up his second retraction, this one for a paper that he corrected earlier this year. Here’s the Journal of Endocrinology notice, whose headers and language are a bit confusing, understandably, because it is retracting … Continue reading Streisand Effect meets tough editors as journal retracts already-corrected paper by Rui Curi

MD Anderson’s Bharat Aggarwal threatens to sue Retraction Watch

Bharat Aggarwal, an MD Anderson researcher under investigation by his institution, has threatened to sue us. Today, we received a letter from the Houston firm of Paranjpe & Mahadass LLP telling us to pull every post related to their client off our site within 20 days, or they’d “file a lawsuit against” us on his … Continue reading MD Anderson’s Bharat Aggarwal threatens to sue Retraction Watch