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Weekend reads: The AI ghosts ‘contaminating’ academic publishing; court upholds whistleblower suits; Ariely paper retracted after sleuths flag tampering
1+ week, 1+ day ago (251+ words) Retraction Watch Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at…...
Oxford researchers retract Nature paper on ‘atmospheric thirst’ for calculation errors
1+ week, 3+ day ago (372+ words) Nature has retracted a paper on the atmosphere’s role in the severity of droughts around the world after the authors discovered they made a coding error that skewed their measurements. The authors say they’ve already written a revised version of…...
Journal retracts paper claiming network of corridors inside the Great Pyramid of Giza
1+ week, 5+ day ago (362+ words) A journal has retracted a paper by two Italian scientists who claimed to have found hidden structures inside of the oldest and largest of the Pyramids of Giza. The study, published in Remote Sensing in October 2022, purportedly used synthetic aperture…...
Weekend reads: Institute defends Nobel Prize winner; Stanford ex-president tries to refute fraud allegations; cardiologist’s ‘monstrous’ conflict of interest
2+ week, 17+ hour ago (271+ words) Retraction Watch Get the latest news from Retraction Watch and beyond Monday through Friday, plus Weekend Reads each Saturday. If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at…...
University press removes book about intelligent design for misquoting ID proponent
2+ week, 1+ day ago (425+ words) New York University Press is pulling all copies of a book about intelligent design after the author falsely quoted another scholar in the work. The misquote stemmed from a passage in a court ruling Howell “mistakenly” read as a direct…...
Guest post: The uncomfortable truth an explosion of papers reveals about authors’ access to data
2+ week, 5+ day ago (431+ words) A rapidly increasing number of published articles rely on analyses produced via the TriNetX platform. However, TriNetX users don’t get full access to the information in the platform, muddying the truthfulness of any analyses of the data and compromising the…...
Weekend reads: Senators ask FDA for more oversight following deaths in China clinical trials; image duplication in Alzheimer’s papers; ‘AI Is Ruining Scholarship’
3+ week, 1+ day ago (141+ words) If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Another busy week at Retraction Watch. Here's a taste of scientific publishing news from elsewhere: How…...
Princeton student says she did not conduct the experiments described in her now-retracted paper
4+ week, 1+ day ago (766+ words) Earlier this week, Retraction Watch reported on a Princeton student’s decision to retract her own paper from an engineering journal due to “significant methodological errors.” The student, Rishika Porandla, now tells us she never conducted the experiments described in the…...
Biology journal pulls 100+ articles and counting from special issues for peer review manipulation
1+ mon, 13+ hour ago (424+ words) Elsevier’s International Journal of Biological Macromolecules has issued more than 100 retractions and counting for manipulated peer review in guest-edited special issues. The publisher has said one more retraction is coming. Since June the publisher has retracted 120 papers. According to the…...
A college student had to retract her paper. The move was ‘the starting point for a better study’
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (957+ words) As a sophomore at Princeton University, Rishika Porandla took a course called “The Curious Scientist,” where students practice disciplinary research skills and act as a “PI” on a project of their choosing. Porandla didn’t have to think twice about what…...