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Journal corrects, but will not retract, controversial paper on internet porn
Misconduct probe of once rising star prompts retraction of cat’s meow paper
Dental journal pulls a dozen papers for recycled images and “unreliable data”
Sturgeon researcher nets 13 retractions for fake peer review
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inThe mystery of the mistaken retraction is solved — sort of
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inOops: Springer Nature journal retracts the wrong paper
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in“Youth Guru” loses turkey-neck paper that overlapped with book chapter
Fracking paper overstated size of methane leak from Marcellus Shale, earning retraction
Last spring, a group of environmental scientists reported an impressive finding: Hydraulic fracturing (better known as fracking) in the Marcellus Shale region of the eastern United States was leaking enough methane to power a city twice the size of Washington, D.C. (We didn’t come up with that comparison, apt though it may be.) Turns out […]
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inBoys will be boys: Data error prompts U-turn on study of sex differences in school
The authors of a 2017 paper on emotional and behavioral gaps between boys and girls have retracted the article after discovering a coding error that completely undermined their conclusions. The revelation prompted the researchers to republish their findings in the same journal, this time with a title that flips the narrative. The PsychJournal study, first […]
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Reader complaints prompt retraction of meta-analysis of heart-failure drug
A cardiology journal has retracted a 2016 meta-analysis after the editors had an, ahem, change of heart about the rigor of the study. The article, “Ivabradine as adjuvant treatment for chronic heart failure,” was published in the International Journal of Cardiology, an Elsevier title. The authors, a group at the Federal University of São Paulo, […]
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