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.

• Journal Obliges Authors and Yank Ketamine Study The top editor said that the notice should have said more, but it "slipped through the cracks."
  Retraction Watch, May 2021
• 'We Are Polite': When a Retraction Notice Pulls Punches Researchers in China have lost a paper on nerve blocks after finding that the work contained 'too many' errors to stand, but after it's pretty clear "too many errors" was a euphemism.
  Retraction Watch, May 2021
• Prominent Chinese Scientist Failed to Disclose Company Ties in COVID-19 Clinical Trial Paper Last May, Nanshan Zhong published results from a clinical trial that tested whether a traditional Chinese medicine could be used to treat COVID-19 patients.
  Retraction Watch, May 2021
• Elsevier to Retract Debunked Masks Study The paper was published by an exercise physiologist with no academic connection to Stanford University or the NIH in a journal that accepts "radical, speculative and non-mainstream scientific ideas."
  Retraction Watch, April 2021
• Palmitoleic Acid Paper Pulled for Data Concerns The 2014 paper purported to provide the results of "the first randomized controlled trial of purified palmitoleic acid supplementation in humans," which Tersus funded, according to this press release.
  Retraction Watch, April 2021
• Paper on Anal Swabs for COVID-19 Retracted for Ethical Issues The article, 'Anal swab as the potentially optimal specimen for SARS-CoV-2 detection to evaluate the hospital discharge of COVID-19 patients,' appeared in July in Future Microbiology.
  Retraction Watch, April 2021
• What Do You Do When 16% of the Papers You Cited Were Retracted? The author learned that 10 of the 63 references in her article were to papers by Yoshihiro Sato, a bone researcher in Japan whose 103 retractions put him in the third position on leaderboard.
  Retraction Watch, April 2021
• Star Trek Fan Has 26 COVID-19 Papers Retracted by Elsevier In one fell swoop, Grech joins the Retraction Watch leaderboard of 30 authors with the most retractions in the world.
  Retraction Watch, April 2021
• Whistleblower Explains Trying 10+ Years to Get a Paper Retracted Since the report of the MIST Trial was published in Circulation in 2008, I have repeatedly written to the journal to express concern about the paper.
  Retraction Watch, April 2021
• What Happens When You Let Your Wife Review Five of Your Papers? Elkhouly, a medical resident at St. Francis Medical Center, in Trenton, NJ, has lost five papers from the journal Cureus over a rather curious (ahem) domestic arrangement.
  Retraction Watch, March 2021

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