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High school whiz kid retracts PLoS ONE herd immunity paper
Georgette speaking at the Davidson Institute’s award ceremony, Library of Congress, 2008 It’s pretty impressive to publish two peer-reviewed papers on complicated vaccination models while you’re still...
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“Major errors” lead to retraction of Nature Photonics paper on quantum dots
Maybe it’s an occupational hazard of dealing with quantum physics — uncertainty and all that — but a group of Swiss researchers has retracted their paper on quantum dots after discovering “major...
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Jumbled analysis leads to retraction of cancer study — but also another paper
The authors of a study on cancer incidence and survival in the Dutch migrant community have retracted it after realizing they’d made some errors that significantly affected the results. But in what...
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Pfizer retracts study of experimental cancer treatment figitumumab for...
Pfizer has retracted a 2009 Journal of Clinical Oncology study purporting to show a benefit of their experimental drug for lung cancer figitumumab after discovering that its clinical lead on the...
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Intent was there, but not the intention-to-treat analysis: Breast cancer...
A group of Dutch researchers has retracted a paper they published in March after apparently learning that they’d bungled their statistical analysis in the study. The article, “Effects of a pre-visit...
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Retraction is final destination for epoxy paper marred by “pervasive...
The Journal of Vinyl and Additive Technology (JVAT) — the official journal of the Society of Plastics Engineers — is retracting a 2012 paper from a group of Chinese researchers who evidently realized...
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What’s new is not new again: Ulrich Lichtenthaler retracts eighth paper
The list of Ulrich Lichtenthaler retractions has grown to eight. Here’s the new notice, for “Externally commercializing technology assets: An examination of different process stages,” from the Journal...
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Poignancy in physics: Retraction for “fatal error” that couldn’t be patched
In August of last year, Mladen Pavičić, chair of physics at the University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Civil Engineering, published a paper in Physical Review Letters on quantum teleportation,...
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“This publication should be ignored”: Authorship issues, flawed data fell...
The Journal of Neuro-Oncology wants you to ignore the following paper: “A single chain (scFv425):sTRAIL fusion protein with specificity for the EGF receptor is effective in vitro but not in an in vivo...
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Another retraction for Pfizer’s experimental cancer treatment figitumumab
Last month, we brought you news that Pfizer had retracted a paper in the Journal of Clinical Oncology purporting to show a benefit of their experimental drug for lung cancer figitumumab after...
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Paper on “evidence for environmental racism” in EPA polluter fines retracted...
A coding switcharoo caused a paper Society & Natural Resources to be retracted. But the authors say that not all is lost, since correcting the data gave them a better understanding of how the the...
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Authors retract Diabetes paper after submitting it “without knowledge of...
A group of neuroscientists has retracted a paper published earlier this year in Diabetes after realizing that a figure that took up a whole page of the paper may not have been quite right. Here’s the...
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Leading cancer researcher retracts 2003 paper for “inappropriate presentation”
One of the world’s leading cancer researchers, MIT’s Robert Weinberg, has retracted a decade-old paper after finding out it contained errors. Here’s the notice for “Ras Modulates Myc Activity to...
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“Unreliable” findings fell TB gene study in PLOS ONE
Here’s a nice example of how science should work. A team of Swiss microbiologists has retracted their 2012 paper in PLoS One on the genetics of the TB mycobacterium after learning that the fusion...
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Seizure study retracted after authors realize data got “terribly mixed”
A group of neonatologists in Germany has retracted a paper after apparently realizing that their data weren’t what they thought they were. Here’s the notice, for “Low Dose Lidocaine for Refractory...
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Authors retract two papers on Remicade following legal battles
A group of Belgian researchers has retracted two decade-old papers in Arthritis & Rheumatism following an investigation and court case. The papers involved the use of the drug infliximab — sold by...
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Findings of “greatly enhanced” optics turn out to be, well, greatly enhanced
The authors of a paper in Nature Photonics have been forced to walk back their article after learning from another group of researchers that their conclusions likely were an, ahem, optical illusion....
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“[A]ll of Section 3 is wrong until proven otherwise”: Correction of paper on...
Andrew Gelman Andrew Gelman, a statistician at Columbia University and a friend of the blog, has corrected a 2008 paper in the blunt way you’d expect him to. Here’s the notice in the Annals of Applied...
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The “unintentionality” of being leads to nothingness for paper on protein’s...
A group of cancer researchers in Argentina has retracted a paper on the p300 protein in breast cancer that appeared in Experimental and Molecular Pathology. The article, titled “Intracellular...
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Error scuppers paper on treatment for liver fibrosis
Pharmaceutical Biology has retracted a 2012 paper by a group of liver researchers from China after the discovery of an error that evidently invalidated the results in the paper. The article,...
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