Retraction Watch
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Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process

How the media hypes “research that is absurd on its face”

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Feud between physicists ends in defamation verdict

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‘Comically bad’ datasets used to train clinical models for stroke and diabetes

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New rule in Peru restricts authors with retractions from getting special bonuses

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Weekend reads: Autism-vaccine researcher arraigned; ‘accidental watermarks’ in medical literature; mass resignations and zombie journals

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Nine years after journalist raised concerns, BMJ Group journal retracts stent paper

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Elsevier journal removes two 42-year-old papers on cesium as a cancer treatment

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Reviewer finds ‘top pharmaceutical scientist’ has a self-citation problem

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Elsevier retracts the least and reinstates the most, new analysis finds

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Weekend reads: FDA blocked vaccine findings; ‘Frankencitations Ravage the Academic Countryside’; ‘Publish and Perish’

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Swiss court clears sleuth in defamation case, awards him legal costs

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One in 277 PubMed-indexed papers in 2026 shows fabricated references, says analysis

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Russian news outlets hailed a cancer breakthrough, but the retraction went unnoticed

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Winning science fair project in Vietnam beset by misconduct allegations as major high school competition looms

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Court orders historian to repay grant funding for “pattern of plagiarism” in books

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ORI announces 15-year debarment against former Rice University scientist

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Weekend reads: A retraction for top cancer researcher; paper mill ads paired to IEEE proceedings; about that study on ChatGPT and learning

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NEJM retracts case study for AI-manipulated imagery

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Are AI chatbots infiltrating online survey data? Not yet, says new study

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Researcher claims his case report was stolen by someone else at his hospital

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