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.

• Dental School Dean: Five Retractions for Cancer Research Papers A dental school dean with a history of publishing cancer research papers is up to five retractions.
  Retraction Watch, September 2022
• Journal Says Ivermectin Study Met Standard for 'Credible Science' The new ivermectin paper immediately drew flak on social media, including from Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, who described a number of weaknesses in the work, starting with the inaccurate title.
  Retraction Watch, September 2022
• How Questionable Women's Health Data Was Kept Out of Literature 'We're talking about families who lose their mother, who lose their baby because of this problem.'
  Retraction Watch, September 2022
• Chinese Hospital Sanctioned 35 Scientists for Research Misconduct Retractions are rolling along for numerous scientists affiliated with the Jining First People's Hospital in Shandong, China.
  Retraction Watch, September 2022
• NCI Postdoc Faked Data, Says Federal Watchdog The finding from the ORI comes more than a year after PLOS Biology retracted a 2016 paper and noted that the NIH had found that the postdoc committed misconduct and faked data in two figures.
  Retraction Watch, September 2022
• Former PhD Student Loses Two Papers for Forging Co-Author's Name Both were led by Sofija Popevska and included a single co-author: Frank Rademakers, a cardiologist at KU Leuven. The problem, according to Rademakers, is that he had nothing to do with the work.
  Retraction Watch, August 2022
• What Happened When We Tried to Get COVID Vax Paper Retracted The article has been shared more than 45,000 times on social media in ways that decrease trust in science and the COVID-19 vaccine, despite the robust evidence that it is both safe and efficacious.
  Retraction Watch, August 2022
• 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 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 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 2022

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