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.

• 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 2022

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