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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- Microbiome company CEO who linked COVID vaccine to bacterial decline now has four retractions
- Misconduct investigation at U.S. military university uncovers image duplication
- After 15 years of controversy, Science retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper. More coverage from Science, Nature, The New York Times, Scientific American, and The Hindu.
- Reviewer accused of stealing manuscript and publishing it as his own denies he refereed it
- Panel upholds results of contested U Toronto mammography study
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 60,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 300 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List?
Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):
Continue reading Weekend reads: Science retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper; another journal issue on Palestine cancelled; JAMA, NEJM editors decry political interference