Huge collaboration of frauduent researchers discovered, leading to numerous retractions at Frontiers journals
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/07/29/frontiers-retract-122-articles-links-thousands-other-publishers-journals-to-unethical-network/
#Papermills #Frontiers #Retraction

Trop gros, trop cher, trop moche..., le système de publications scientifiques est à bout de souffle. Un article de "niche" pour passer un bon été :https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2025/07/07/le-monde-des-revues-scientifiques-au-bord-de-l-asphyxie_6619660_1650684.html
(allez au bout car il y a des messages d'espoirs...)

et en bonus, un "appui" sur l'usage de l'IA qui n'arrange rien,
https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2025/07/07/comment-l-ia-bouscule-les-publications-scientifiques_6619655_1650684.html

#science #preprint #recherche #pci #pubpeer #matilda #openaccess #retraction
@BorisBarbour @enroweb @ElisabethBik

This has somehow slipped under my radar: "Controversial #COVID study that promoted unproven treatment retracted after four-year saga - Paper on #hydroxychloroquine led by French researcher Didier #Raoult is second-most-cited study ever to be withdrawn."
"Overall, the IHU now has 32 retracted papers — 28 of them authored by Raoult — and 230 other studies with expressions of concern."
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-04014-9 #IHU #HCQ #retraction #Marseille #AMU

Bullshit Hydroxychloroquine/COVID paper by misogynist dipshit Raoult has finally been pulled

#Science #Research #Covid #Retraction

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04014-9

Not sure if this is available outside the UK: documentary about academic retractions from BBC, featuring yours truly, but mainly focussing on Joachim Boldt
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0021qjr
#fraud #anesthetics #retraction #publishing

A Call for Retraction: The Recent American Psychologist Article on Antisemitism

"In sum, given the many identified shortcomings, it is perplexing to me that the American Psychologist accepted this article in its current form. In my view, its publication in a premier scholarly journal now lends unwarranted credibility to the authors’ questionable analysis of antisemitism — a critically important issue. Furthermore, I am deeply concerned that the unsubstantiated discrediting of individuals and groups distressed by the real-world consequences of Israel’s assault on Gaza can further endanger lives and set back the pursuit of a just peace." Roy Eidelson

https://royeidelson.com/a-call-for-retraction/

#antisemitism #APA #AmericanPsychologist #JewishVoiceForPeace #IfNotNow #AmericanJews #PalestineSolidarity #IHRA #JerusalemDeclarationOnAntisemitism #JDA #BDS #psychologists #retraction #OpinionsAreNotFacts @israel @palestine #JusticeForPalestine #FarRight #zionism

Good to see RetractionWatch featuring #Elsevier's shameful failure to retract a flawed #Raoult paper on hydroxychloroquine years after the flaws documented. https://retractionwatch.com/2024/06/19/elsevier-reopens-investigation-into-controversial-hydroxychloroquine-covid-paper/
Now "reopening the investigation" - that's usually code for kicking into the long grass, but perhaps pressure from scientists and adverse publicity will work this time?
#retraction #misconduct

#WhiteHouse #highlights #DailyCaller’s #retraction of #false #Easteregg #story.

#KarineJeanPierre took a moment during Tuesday’s #WhiteHouse #pressbriefing to note the #rightwing outlet’s #actions.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Disinformation #Misinformation

https://www.advocate.com/news/daily-caller-easter-retraction-wh

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/02/05/no-data-no-problem-undisclosed-tinkering-in-excel-behind-economics-paper/

"Heshmati told the student he had used Excel’s autofill function to mend the data. ... where there were no observations to use for the autofill operation, the professor had taken the values from an adjacent country in the spreadsheet."
#economics #imputation #heshmati #retraction #retractionwatch #Excel #AutoFill #datainvention #fudge #fake
"Journal of Cleaner Production":
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652623022503
"#Green #innovations and #patents in #OECD countries"

This will be a blow to the anti-abortion side of the Supreme Court hearing March 26...

...(if SCOTUS members understand what a scholarly retraction means).

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/anti-abortion-groups-studies-retracted-before-supreme-court-mifepristone-case/

Anti-abortion group’s studies retracted before Supreme Court mifepristone case - Enlarge / Mifepristone (Mifeprex) and Misoprostol, the two drugs used i... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2001534 #scientificpublishing #mifepristone #supremecourt #retraction #abortion #science #health #fda

Nature retracts a second high-temperature superconductor study - Enlarge / Dikembe Mutombo rejects your flawed publication. (credit: DAV... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1982217 #researchmisconduct #superconductivity #retraction #science #physics

This has been a hell of a long time coming, but at last #Macchiarini papers have been retracted by the #Lancet
#fraud #retraction #publishing #ethics

It's been great to see steps taken by editor Paul Matusz to block papermill from gaining a foothold at Mind, Brain and Education, after @abalkinaanna identified problems
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mbe.12392
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mbe.12391
Eternal vigilance is required!
#papermills #fraud #retraction #journals #publishing

trouble at the papermill
Multiple retractions from Sage engineering journal
https://retractionwatch.com/2023/09/14/turmoil-at-sage-journal-as-retractions-mount/
I’m hoping we’ll reach a tipping point where people see papermills as risky rather than a way to a quick fraudulent paper
#fraud #papermills #retraction

Often referenced "masks do harm" study retracted.

See: https://frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1221666/full

Editors: "...complaints were valid ... the article does not meet the standards of editorial & scientific soundness..."

Will likely live on as a zombie & the retraction will become part of a conspiracy narrative.

In yesterday's blogpost I had a bit of a rant about how organisations that find academic misconduct ask for affected papers to be 'corrected'.
You can no more 'correct' a fraudulent paper than you can remove the bad part from a stinking fish.
http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2023/04/papers-affected-by-misconduct-erratum.html
#science #fraud #retraction #publishing