Retraction Watch

• Company's Alzheimer's Treatment Study Earns a Flag Oh, what a tangled web we weave, it seems, when it comes to neurofibrillary tangles.
  Retraction Watch, August 09, 2022
• Doc Faces Retaliation After Alleging Data Manipulation in Study Dr Fouad Fayad alleged that the researchers tested patient samples multiple times and used a mix of old and new values in their analysis.
  Retraction Watch, August 05, 2022
• Professor Called Out for Fake Peer Review on 'Love Hormone' There were inappropriate communications between the authors and reviewer during the peer-review process.
  Retraction Watch, July 27, 2022
• 'Permissive Culture of Data Manipulation' in Cancer Research Lab The Ohio State University investigated 20 manuscripts by the cancer research group of Samson Jacob after the university received allegations in 2017 of image manipulation stretching over years of work.
  Retraction Watch, July 25, 2022
• 250th COVID-19 Retraction Is for Faked Ethics Approval Researchers in Iran have lost a paper on COVID-19 infection in a 2-month-old boy after the journal learned that they had fabricated ethics approval for the article.
  Retraction Watch, July 21, 2022
• Former Associate Dean and Highly Cited Researcher Demoted Jun Ren says that he was overcommitted in administration work (PI for a 10-year [$]30 million research grant and served as college associate dean) and failed to stay on top of his own research lab closely.
  Retraction Watch, July 18, 2022
• UPenn Prof With Four Retractions 'May No Longer Be Affiliated' With School In May, we reported that Armstead was up to four retractions after the Journal of Neurotrauma had retracted three articles at the researcher's request.
  Retraction Watch, June 22, 2022
• Failed to Register Your Trial? Don't Use a Another Study's Number The registration number provided by the author for the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR-IOR-17014122) seems to correspond to a different trial than the one described in the article.
  Retraction Watch, May 20, 2022
• Accused of Scientific Misconduct — And That Was Just the Beginning The Sept. 10, 2019 PBS article accompanying the Frontline documentary "Deadly Water" was topped by a provocative headline: "The EPA Says Flint's Water is Safe — Scientists Aren't So Sure."
  Retraction Watch, May 19, 2022
• Another Ivermectin-COVID-19 Paper Is Retracted The article was part of a special issue of Toxicology Reports on COVID-19 that has received an expression of concern; six of the eight articles still have EoCs.
  Retraction Watch, May 11, 2022
• Journal Retracts Cesarean Delivery Paper With 'Impossible' Data The study purported to involve nearly 1300 women – making it the largest analysis of women receiving steroids for the indication in the trial.
  Retraction Watch, May 09, 2022
• Eight Years After Three Papers Are Flagged PLOS ONE Retracts If the journal had addressed these concerns a bit earlier, the authors might still have had the original data to show, since these papers were published in 2010–2013.
  Retraction Watch, April 19, 2022
• Alert Cancer Researcher Faked Data in Work Funded by Nine NIH Grants Brand, who "neither admits nor denies ORI's findings of research misconduct," agreed to have any research of hers funded by the Public Health Service supervised for 4 years.
  Retraction Watch, April 06, 2022
• Harvard Eye Researchers Have Eight Papers Retracted The studies appeared in three journals, although one, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS), is pulling six studies.
  Retraction Watch, March 21, 2022
• Study on Teen Pot Use Goes Up in Smoke, Then Reappears A JAMA journal has retracted and replaced a widely circulated 2021 article that purported to find that pot use among adolescents drops when states make the drug legal.
  Retraction Watch, March 14, 2022
• Study of Cryotherapy for COVID-19 Anosmia Fails the Sniff Test This request came after the paper had undergone full peer review, three rounds of revisions, acceptance, page proofs, and ultimately, online publication.
  Retraction Watch, March 14, 2022
• Why Did a Federal Watchdog Make Just Three Findings of Misconduct? In 2021, ORI made just 3 findings of misconduct, a drop from 10 — roughly the average over the past 15 years — in 2020. Such cases can take years.
  Retraction Watch, February 25, 2022
• Gastro Journal Issues Expressions of Concern on 40 Probiotic Articles The articles appeared in the Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, the official journal of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation (ECCO) and date back to 2007.
  Retraction Watch, January 26, 2022
• Expressions of Concern Mount for Heart Researchers A group of heart researchers in China now have four expressions of concern, along with a retraction, for questions about the reliability of their data.
  Retraction Watch, January 25, 2022
• Two Abstracts About Unapproved Heart Technology Retracted Both studies involve a technology called pulse field ablation. Medtronic developed one version of the technology, and Farapulse, which is now owned by Boston Scientific, developed another.
  Retraction Watch, January 21, 2022