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.

• Paper Claiming Phototherapy Could Treat COVID-19 is Retracted According to the paper, methylene blue (a versatile medical product that serves as a drug and a dye) when used with a "BX-1 AIDS treatment instrument," could be a wonder therapy for COVID-19.
  Retraction Watch, July 2021
• NIH: Cancer Researcher Committed Misconduct, Revises Paper An investigation by the NIH has led to the retraction of a 2016 paper in PLOS Biology for manipulation of the data in the article. The journal has republished a revised version of the paper.
  Retraction Watch, July 2021
• Cardiology Journal Flags Papers Cited Hundreds of Times
  Retraction Watch, July 2021
• Authors of Highly Criticized COVID-19 Vaccine Study Defend It The authors are responding to criticisms leveled by Eugène van Puijenbroek of the University of Groningen.
  Retraction Watch, July 2021
• COVID Vaccine Study Drew Scrutiny and Expression of Concern 'For three deaths prevented by vaccination we have to accept two inflicted by vaccination,' wrote the authors of a paper in the MDPI journal Vaccines.
  Retraction Watch, June 2021
• Widely Covered Paper on Ranitidine-Cancer Link Retracted The authors concluded that their widely touted finding appears to have resulted from a hiccup in the way they conducted their testing.
  Retraction Watch, June 2021
• Sleuth's Work Has Led to the ID of Hundreds of Fraudulent Papers John Loadsman has been the canary in the coal mine of the anesthesiology literature.
  Retraction Watch, June 2021
• Six Years Later, Many Suspect Papers Remain Unflagged When the University of Colorado at Denver completed an investigation in 2015 into the work of a former faculty member, the school recommended that nine papers be corrected or retracted.
  Retraction Watch, June 2021
• Two Meditation Papers Retracted for Lacking Primary Outcomes Two psychology journals have retracted two papers on the health benefits of a form of transcendental meditation. The authors failed to report the primary outcome of the study underpinning the articles.
  Retraction Watch, June 2021
• 'TikTok Doc' Loses Paper on Staff Development Over Harassment Suit In November 2020 — after the alleged assaults occurred but before the lawsuit was filed — Campbell and two OHSU colleagues published a paper in The Lancet's EClinicalMedicine.
  Retraction Watch, May 2021

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