It appears as a terse statement — a few hundred words invalidating the claims made in a published paper. Retractions are the prevailing method for correcting gross inaccuracies in the scientific ...

Science is an activity performed by humans, so it’s inevitable that some of the scientific papers we cover will end up being wrong. As we noted yesterday, the cause can range from factors completely ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A: I think the major retractions are due to a rush to publish information about the pandemic. I think that is a ...

Mistakes are part of science. But setting the record straight promptly and clearly can help to avoid a career blot. After 18 months of complex testing and re-testing, Pamela Ronald became certain that ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Misconduct has contributed largely to a rising trend of ...

If one were inclined, for some reason, to strike fear into the heart of a medical researcher, it would take little more than whispering a single word: retraction. The phrase “grant application denied” ...

Just before Christmas, the prestigious journal Nature Communications retracted an article that examined the informal mentorship of junior scientists. Among other findings, the paper concluded junior ...

Journal publishers must acknowledge the limitations of traditional peer review and embrace post-publication peer review News that Peter Chen, an engineering researcher in Taiwan, managed to game the ...