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Anatomy journal retracts 13 papers
The Anatomical Record is correcting itself in a big way, pulling 13 articles, including several linked to paper mills. The papers, all by authors in China, were published between 2019 and 2021. Some were flagged in a September 2021 report on research misconduct by the Chinese government. They join a slew of articles The Anatomical … Continue reading Anatomy journal retracts 13 papers
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Paper by former NIH researcher alleging ‘Ponzi schemes’ by government, pharma retracted
Mahin Khatami, a former researcher with the U.S. National Institutes of Health who has argued in print that cancer results from ‘dark energy’ and that the government and the pharmaceutical industry are collaborating in ‘scientific/medical Ponzi schemes’ to keep people sick, has lost a paper to retraction. As we reported last fall, Robert Speth, a pharmacy … Continue reading Paper by former NIH researcher alleging ‘Ponzi schemes’ by government, pharma retracted
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A tale of three journals: Paper retracted when associate editor submits to the wrong title
What a difference a D makes. Ask Kevin Pile. Pile edits the International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases (let’s call it the IJRD), a Wiley publication. Last year, he published a guest editorial by Vaidehi Chowdhary, a rheumatologist at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., on a form of kidney disease. But it turns out that … Continue reading A tale of three journals: Paper retracted when associate editor submits to the wrong title
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Retractions could mean fewer submissions for journals, says new analysis
What affects the number of submissions a journal receives? A new study in Learned Publishing, led by staff at Wiley, aimed to find out — and the results, based in part on our database, suggest that retractions may correlate with submission numbers. We asked corresponding author Thomas Gaston to answer a few questions about the … Continue reading Retractions could mean fewer submissions for journals, says new analysis
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Food poisoning researcher up to four spoiled papers
The Journal of Food Safety has retracted two papers by a group from Iran over concerns that the work was tainted by problems with peer review and bad data. The articles, both of which appeared in 2018, came from the lab of Ebrahim Rahimi, of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Tehran. … Continue reading Food poisoning researcher up to four spoiled papers
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Study of autism and vitamin D earns retraction after questions about reliability
A pediatrics journal has retracted a 2016 article purporting to be the first randomized controlled trial on the effects of vitamin D supplements on autism over concerns about the reliability of the findings. The paper, “Randomized controlled trial of vitamin D supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder,” appeared in the Journal of Child Psychology … Continue reading Study of autism and vitamin D earns retraction after questions about reliability
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When is asparagus not asparagus? Why, when it’s ginger, of course!
Allow us to explain that headline. Food Science & Nutrition has retracted a 2018 article by a group of researchers in China and Pakistan for plagiarism. The article was titled “Experimentally investigated the asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.) drying with flat-plate collector under the natural convection indirect solar dryer.” Per the retraction notice: The retraction … Continue reading When is asparagus not asparagus? Why, when it’s ginger, of course!
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“Sufficiently serious” issues in study prompt company to yank drug approval application in China
The maker of a leading over-the-counter antacid has withdrawn its application for approval of the drug in China because a clinical trial of the product in that country was marred by “major protocol deviations.” Researchers for the company, Reckitt Benckiser, maker of Gaviscon, had published a report on the study in 2015 in the journal … Continue reading “Sufficiently serious” issues in study prompt company to yank drug approval application in China
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Misconduct probe of once rising star prompts retraction of cat’s meow paper
A group of Australian researchers who studied the cat’s meow as a model for urinary incontinence and other motor-neural issues in people have lost a 2015 paper in the wake of a misconduct investigation. The target of the inquiry was Hari Subramanian, a former senior research fellow at the Queensland Brain Institute, part of the … Continue reading 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”
A leading orthodontics journal has retracted 12 papers after determining that they contained either reused images, questionable data or both. Several of the articles involved experiments conducted in dogs — and one person familiar with the case told us that the duplication was an attempt to avoid sacrificing more animals than necessary for the research. … Continue reading Dental journal pulls a dozen papers for recycled images and “unreliable data”