Alexander Lerchl sent us this note: In 2010 you wrote a piece [in the Guardian] on a paper by Salama et al. about the effects of mobile phone electromagnetic fields on rabbits’ sex life. I read it just now since it was mentioned in Esowatch. Actually he published three papers with co-authors who were not informed about […]
Tag: retraction
The eyebrow- and hair-raising Dr. K
Retraction Watch blog reports on the eyebrow-raising adventures of Dr. Kenji Okajma, and alludes to Dr. Okajima’s activity in (possibly) raising hair: We have updates on the two mysterious Journal of Neuroscience retractions we reported on yesterday…. there appears to be a university investigation into the work of one of the co-authors, Kenji Okajima, according to a report in Sankei […]
Curses! Rats! Ordered the wrong mice!
The Retraction Watch blog reports: The authors of a 2006 Journal of Immunology study have retracted it after it dawned on them that they used the wrong mice….
Going Anti-Viral: Jesus Flu Retraction
The Retraction Watch blog reports the course of a fever: The shroud of retraction: Virology Journal withdraws paper about whether Christ cured a woman with flu It takes decades, and even centuries, to overturn the Catholic canon of law, but medical journals move much more quickly: Just three weeks after the Virology Journal published a […]
Intermittent headache paper
The Retraction Watch blog reports a rare case: Double negatives: Four years later, a journal restores retracted headache paper It might not be a first – although we can’t find another example — but a mental health journal has reinstated an article it retracted four years ago. The retracted retraction notice appears in the August […]