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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Paper about “sexual intent” of women wearing red retracted seven years after sleuths raised concerns (this was our 6,000th post)
- Buzzy Lancet long COVID paper under investigation for ‘data errors’
- Psychologists want to retract old papers about conversion therapy. Elsevier says no.
- ‘Just some eccentric guy in Australia’: The story of a non-retraction for plagiarism
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 277. There are more than 37,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers?
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: Allegations about Stanford’s president; time to pay peer reviewers?; questions about a publisher mount