Category Archives: breach of ethical policy
You want to do what? Paper on anal swabs for COVID-19 retracted for ethical issues
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inCaught Our Notice: A paper mistakenly ID’d a patient. Its retraction notice did, too. (Oops!)
Ethics, authorship concerns sink homeopathy paper by researchers arrested last year
Journal bans author for three years after retracting paper with “serious ethical” problems
An anatomy journal has banned a researcher from submitting papers for three years after determining one of his recently published papers suffered from “serious ethical” issues. According to Jae Seung Kang, associate editor at the journal Anatomy and Cell Biology (ACB), the paper’s sole author—Jae Chul Lee—falsified both his affiliation and approval for conducting animal […]
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Caught Our Notice: Reporter’s inquiry prompts financial disclosure in autism paper
Title: Promoting child-initiated social-communication in children with autism: Son-Rise Program intervention effects What caught our attention: When journalist Brendan Borrell was investigating a controversial autism treatment program for Spectrum, he came across a study where lead author Kat Houghton failed to disclose a prior relationship with the treatment center that taught the program, called Son-Rise. The Spectrum article notes: […]
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Ethical concerns arise for head of controversial stem cell clinic
Journals are raising ethical concerns about the research of a doctor who offers controversial embryonic stem cell treatments. Two journals have issued expressions of concern for three papers by Geeta Shroff, who was the subject of a 2012 CNN investigative documentary. All cite ethical concerns; one mentions the potential link between the procedure the authors […]
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Nightmare scenario: Text stolen from manuscript during review
A food science journal has retracted a paper over “a breach of reviewer confidentiality,” after editors learned it contained text from an unpublished manuscript — which one of the authors appears to have reviewed for another journal. The publisher and editors-in-chief of the Journal of Food Process Engineering became aware of the breach when the author of […]
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Author says he lied about approval for animal research
A researcher in South Korea has retracted a 2015 paper after telling the journal he falsified the institutional approval required to conduct the animal experiments. In the article, the author explicitly says that the Animal Experiment Review Board of a university based in Seoul, South Korea approved the experiments, but according to the journal, “the […]
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