Revolt builds against dodgy psych journal which published paper claiming masturbation and gay sex reflect mental illness

Revolt builds against dodgy psych journal which published paper claiming masturbation and gay sex reflect mental illness

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Several psychiatry researchers have been unsuccessfully seeking distance from a dodgy journal with which they’re affiliated – and which has ...
How many COVID-19 academic papers have been retracted, and why? Here’s the growing list

How many COVID-19 academic papers have been retracted, and why? Here’s the growing list

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We’ve been tracking retractions of papers about COVID-19 as part of our database. Here’s a running list, which will be ...
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Why the controversial—and retracted—paper linking vaccines and autism is one of the most cited papers of all time

Six librarians from institutions in Wisconsin had a question: “What are the characteristics of citations of the retracted 1998 article ...
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Paper popular with creationists retracted 30 years after publication

Ivan Oransky | Retraction Watch | 
A paper by a Russian researcher who has been dogged by allegations of fraud has been retracted, 30 years to ...
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Paper by controversial Australian journalist retracted over ‘image manipulation’

Ivan Oransky | Retraction Watch | 
The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) has retracted a 2003 paper that resulted from the PhD thesis of Maryanne Demasi, an ...
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Controversial CRISPR paper claiming widespread ‘off-target mutations’ retracted by Nature Methods journal

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Nature Methods has retracted a 2017 paper suggesting a common gene editing technique may cause widespread collateral damage to the ...
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Controversial CRISPR gene-editing paper draws ‘editor’s note’

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[Editor's note: The paper in question detailed the use of CRISPR to correct, in human embryos, a gene that causes ...
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Fluorescent non-GMO cotton study in doubt after one day, and ‘glowing’ media headlines

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Science has issued an expression of concern for a widely covered materials science paper published on Friday, citing issues with ...
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Did Monsanto engineer campaign to get controversial 2012 Seralini rat study retracted?

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A trove of internal documents from Monsanto, recently unsealed in a lawsuit against the agricultural biotech giant, has revealed the ...
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Retracted: Controversial study claiming alternative gene editor NgAgo superior to CRISPR

Alison McCook | Retraction Watch | 
The author of a 2016 paper describing a potentially invaluable lab tool has retracted it, following heavy criticism from outside ...
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Controversial CRISPR off-target effects study under investigation by Nature journal’s editors

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A Nature journal has posted a editor’s note to a recent letter on potential unintended consequences of CRISPR gene editing...The original ...
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Controversial Italian study finding potential harm from GMO foods flagged by scientific journal

Alison McCook | Retraction Watch | 
A journal has flagged a paper by a researcher who has questioned the safety of genetically modified organisms, after receiving concerns ...

Anti-GMO-touted Italian paper claiming GM genes in blood and organs found to be fabricated

Alison McCook | Retraction Watch | 
Earlier this year, a nutrition journal retracted an article about the potential dangers of eating food containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs), ...
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Another paper by Italian research team raising GMO safety concerns retracted

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A researcher who published ...

What’s more problematic than a Seralini paper? A plagiarized version of it

Alison McCook | Retraction Watch | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A 2012 paper co-authored ...
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A mess: PLOS mistakenly publishes rejected ADHD-herbicide paper, retracts it

Ivan Oransky | Retraction Watch | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. PLOS One has retracted ...
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Following criticism, PLOS removes blog defending scrutiny of science

Ivan Oransky | Retraction Watch | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Community blog PLOS Biologue has pulled ...
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Golden rice paper retracted over ethical concerns, not quality of science

Alison McCook | Retraction Watch | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article from the Retraction Watch website: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition is retracting a paper that ...

Harvard stem cell scientist takes sabbatical following fraud scandal

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Charles Vacanti, a Harvard anesthesiologist and stem cell pioneer whose name appeared on both retracted STAP stem cell papers, is ...
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No peer review of republished Seralini GM corn toxicity rat study

Ivan Oransky | Retraction Watch | 
The editor of Environmental Sciences Europe, Henner Hollert, has responded to Nature, which reports: Environmental Sciences Europe (ESEU) decided to re-publish the paper to give ...
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Retracted Seralini study on GM corn toxicity republished with another unusual embargo

Ivan Oransky | Retraction Watch | 
A highly controversial — and retracted — 2012 study by Gilles Seralini and colleagues of the effects of genetically modified maize and the ...
Retraction Watch: Back story on Séralini's censorship demands on GMO study and critique of retraction

Retraction Watch: Back story on Séralini’s censorship demands on GMO study and critique of retraction

Ivan Oransky | Retraction Watch | 
The debate over the retraction of a highly controversial paper on the effects of GMOs on rats continues as new ...
Retraction! Prestigious journal pulls botched Séralini GMO rat study

Retraction! Prestigious journal pulls botched Séralini GMO rat study

Ivan Oransky | Retraction Watch | 
In a stunning development, Food and Chemical Toxicology, which last year published the now notorious GMO rat study by French ...
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