Category Archives: methodological problems
Coming up short: Journal retracts penis enlargement paper after realizing it was homeopathy
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inTime to say goodbye to “statistically significant” and embrace uncertainty, say statisticians
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inCaught Our Notice: Hey peer reviewers — did you even read this paper??
Authors claim clinical trial data came from one center. It came from three.
Ethics, authorship concerns sink homeopathy paper by researchers arrested last year
Child took wrong compound for over a year after “communication error”
Overlooked virus “generated a mess,” infected highly cited Cell, PNAS papers
“The sampling had been compromised:” MD Anderson researchers retract cancer study
Caught Our Notice: “Ironically,” same error in same journal “was noted last year”
Title: Sleep quality and body composition variations in obese male adults after 14 weeks of yoga intervention: A randomized controlled trial What Caught Our Attention: Last year, researchers led by David Allison at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s School of Public Health called for the retraction of an article linking weight loss and obese female yoga […]
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Caught Our Notice: Don’t count your chicken (genes) before they’re hatched
Title: Molecular Characterization and Biological Activity of Interferon-α in Indian Peafowl (Pavo cristatus) What Caught Our Attention: Soon after the paper appeared, the journal was alerted to the fact its findings were at odds with others in the field. When the editor approached the authors, everything fell apart: The authors couldn’t repeat the experiments, and […]
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