Today’s Headline of the Day appears in the Retraction Watch blog: Astrophysics retraction trail includes paper that plagiarized another already retracted for… plagiarism
Tag: retraction
Details are costly: The $32 retraction notice
Ivan Oransky writes, in the Retraction Watch blog: a study called “Periodontitis and Cardiovascular Disease: Floss and Reduce a Potential Risk Factor for CVD” had been retracted from Angiology last year. The retraction notice — which will cost you $32 to read — consists of this highly informative sentence: The publisher and the editor have retracted the […]
Bye-bye bunny paper: Rabbit phone sex study retracted
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 […]
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 […]