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 ...

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 ...

Retraction is not effective in reducing online attention to problematic research papers, according to a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The study doesn’t support ...

When there's something really wrong with a published study, the journal can retract it, much like a carmaker recalling a flawed automobile. But are the errors that lead to retractions honest mistakes ...

According to a recent study, women are less likely than men to engage in misconduct when publishing biomedical research. The analysis, published in PLoS One, found that women were markedly ...

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 ...

Recent findings of misconduct by researchers at both Bell Labs and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have once again brought the issue of fraud and scientific trust into the public spotlight.