Retraction Watch

Medscape News has partnered with Retraction Watch to provide news about scientific fraud and integrity. Retraction Watch is a project of the nonprofit Center For Scientific Integrity dedicated to exploring retractions as a window into the scientific process. The Center also created the Retraction Watch Database, the most comprehensive database of retractions available.

• Parent Survey of Children With Gender Dysphoria Retracted Soon after publication, the study was criticized that its method of enlisting study participants was biased.
  Retraction Watch, May 2023
• Former Yale Professor Faked Data, Says Federal Watchdog A liver researcher who worked at Yale University for 15 years faked data in multiple papers and grant applications.
  Retraction Watch, April 2023
• Convicted Transplant Surgeon Earns Lancet Expressions of Concern The Lancet issued expressions of concern about a pair of papers by the Italian doctor, who is currently on probation after a court in Sweden convicted him of causing bodily harm to a patient.
  Retraction Watch, February 2023
• Psychiatrist Effort Prompts Retraction of Antidepressant Paper "I thought, you know, wow, this is something that I'm comfortable prescribing that could make a huge difference for my patients."
  Retraction Watch, February 2023
• 'Kafkaesque Nightmare': Judge Wants Researcher Reinstated Judge Block emphasized that one of the world's leading molecular biologists disagreed with the investigation committee's conclusion that Dr Blain committed research misconduct.
  Retraction Watch, January 2023
• Study Calling Trump 'Main Driver' of Vax Misinformation Retracted The Redditor also looked at the reviews of the article which PLOS ONE made available, and concluded that "clearly neither reviewer actually read it in any detail."
  Retraction Watch, January 2023
• Contamination Leads to Swift Retraction of Omicron Origins Paper The authors of a paper that proposed the Omicron variant of SARS-Cov-2 had evolved in Western Africa months before it was first detected in South Africa have retracted their study.
  Retraction Watch, December 2022
• Article on Sexual Orientation and Psychiatric Disorders Retracted A detailed thread was tweeted about how the review article “completely misrepresented” one of the studies.
  Retraction Watch, December 2022
• Cancer Researcher Banned From Federal Funding for Faking Data A former associate professor at Purdue University faked data in two published papers and hundreds of images in 16 grant applications.
  Retraction Watch, December 2022
• Popular Long COVID Paper Under Investigation for 'Data Errors' Titled "6-Month Consequences of COVID-19 in Patients Discharged From Hospital: A Cohort Study," the paper has been cited nearly 1600 times, according to Clarivate's Web of Science.
  Retraction Watch, December 2022

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