Studies claiming Islamic practices protect against disease and sexual harassment retracted

Hüseyin Çaksen

A researcher in Turkey has lost seven papers about Islamic practices that he managed to publish in journals typically dedicated to childhood diseases.

Hüseyin Çaksen, of Necmettin Erbakan University, published the articles in the Journal of Pediatric Neurology, the Journal of Child Science, and the Journal of Pediatric Epilepsy, all Thieme titles. Feyza Çaksen is co-author of two.

The seven papers are:

All of the notices simply say the paper “has been retracted as it is lacking scientific base.” How that was missed in peer review is unclear.

The move came a day after Urartu Şeker, an academic in Ankara, Turkey, tweeted about some of the work:

That was followed by story about the articles in news outlet duvaR.English, which noted that Çaksen had also published “The Sacrifice of Ismail by His Father Ibrahim (Alayhi As-Salam): An Example of Surrender for Today’s Children and Parents,” in the Journal of Pediatric Neurology

Neither Çaksen nor S. Burak Açıkel, the editor in chief of the journal, has responded to multiple requests for comment over the past several days.

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