Retractions as political statement
From Retraction Watch, a story about a retraction is really a story about Nature’s failure to publish a refutation:
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Fraud on the rise, especially in the United States and in high impact journals
Read more → More from Meta-science →An article in the Washington Post details an alleged case of Fraud which led to an as-yet-uncorrected Nature paper and a suicide:
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Study on data compliance unearths incorrect analyses
Read more → More from Meta-science →A post at Retraction Watch summarizes the situation:
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Retractions stigmatize scientific fields, study finds
Read more → More from Meta-science →The study, published this week as a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, used the PubMed Related Citations Algorithm (PMRA) to fish out papers that are topically similar to retracted articles but written by different authors. After a retraction, the rate at which these related papers were cited dropped by 5.7% relative to a selection of control papers that were not related to a retraction.
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Skeletons & Standards
Read more → More from Meta-science →Dorothy Bishop critiques a 2003 neuroimaging paper:
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A Sharp Rise In Retraction Prompts Calls For Reform
Read more → More from Meta-science →From the article:
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The Trouble With Retractions
Read more → More from Meta-science →From the article: