Retraction Watch Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process

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Retraction Watch Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process Menu and widgetsA pharmacologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center who lost a highly cited 2014 paper in Nature for questions about the integrity of her data has been sanctioned by the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) and UT Southwestern has rescinded two professorships she previously held.A month after announcing it would conducting a “priority” investigation into November 17 paper that claimed women in science fare better with male rather than female mentors, Nature Communications has retracted the article.In the article, “The association between early career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and junior author performance,” the authors a trio from New York University’s campus in Abu Dhabi write that “While current diversity policies encourage same-gender mentorships to retain women in academia, our findings raise the possibility that opposite-gender mentorship may actually increase the impact of women who pursue a scientific career.” It drew nearly immediate criticism, for example:The recent @NatureComms paper doesn’t tell us much about the impact of gender on mentorship but it sure does tell us that the statistics community needs to do a better job teaching scientists about correlation, causation, and confounding Dr. Daniela Witten (@daniela_witten) November 19, 2020On November 19, the journal added an editor’s note saying it would be looking into these criticisms, and today, the article was retracted following review by three experts. The retraction notice reads, in part:Dove Press last week retracted 14 papers by Marty Hinz, a Minnesota doctor who caught the attention of the U.S. FDA years ago for hyping supplements sold by a company he once owned.The 14 articles on the use of supplements to treat conditions ranging from Crohn’s disease to Parkinson’s disease were among 20 that the publisher slapped expressions of concern on earlier this year. The other six articles flagged in April remain under review, a spokesperson for Taylor Francis, which owns Dove, tells Retraction Watch.That move came two and a half years after Stephen Barrett — a U.S. physician and founder of Quackwatch — alerted Dove to his concerns about Hinz’s failure to disclose conflicts of interest on the papers. Barrett says Hinz has used those papers to support claims that supplements made by Hinz’s  former company, now owned by his daughter but from which he has received royalties, are effective in treating various conditions.Before we present this week’s Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider atax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance.Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers isup to 40.A sports medicine journal has retracted a widely circulated 2019 meta-analysis which purported to find that interval training was the “magic bullet” for weight loss, after the analysis proved to be riddled with holes.Steele has some cred when it comes to research integrity, and part of that cred comes from another retraction.He was part of a team of data sleuths who have called for the retraction of seven papers by Matheus Barbalho, a Brazilian exercise scientist.A veterinary researcher at the University of Maryland has lost seven papers for problematic images and other issues, bringing his retraction total to 13.Some of those questions were raised first, it seems by Elisabeth Bik, who in November 2015 reported her concerns to PLOS ONE about a different one of Samal’s articles, which she also flagged on PubPeer.The journal is now retracting that article, titled “Evaluation of the replication, pathogenicity, and immunogenicity of Avian Paramyxovirus (APMV) serotypes 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 in Rhesus macaques. According to the retraction notice:More than six months after two of the world’s leading medical journals retracted papers on COVID-19 based on suspect data from a questionable company, a journal says it has cleared a raft of articles by the controversial founder of the firm. Or, has it?Vascular, a SAGE title, says it has investigated all papers in the journal by Sapan Desai that relied on “a significant amount of data,” whatever that means. Desai, you’ll recall, foundedSurgisphere, which is now famous for refusing to share its data in articles published in The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine.We counted 18 11 papers in Vascular on which Desai was a co-author. The journal says in a rather oblique way that all but two of the articles it examined either checked out or didn’t include enough data to raise alarms.A research technician at Washington State University resigned after his colleagues caught him fabricating data earlier this year, Retraction Watch has learned. Ryan Evanoff was working in veterinary microbiology at the Pullman campus when members of the department discovered that he had been falsifying sequencing data in gene studies. According to Robert Mealey, the chair of the  Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Washington State: In what has become an annual tradition, our friends atThe Scientistasked us to round up what we thought were the biggest retractions of the last 12 months. Not surprisingly, the list is dominated by some of the 39 retractions we ve seen of COVID-19 studies. But that s not the whole list.Don’t tell the aquatic beetles in the family Grouvellinus Champion 1923, but their number just got a little smaller. Officially speaking, that is. Unofficially, keep that place setting at the holiday table. Well, don’t, if you’re under travel restrictions for COVID-19. You get the picture.A journal has retracted a 2019 paper describing the discovery of a new member of the family, part of a “citizen science” (or “taxon expedition”) effort to collect samples of the insects in the remote Maliau Basin of Borneo, over a bureaucratic dispute.Recent forays into the region have turned up several new species of water beetle, including the Grouvellinus leonardodicaprioi, which looks, well, not much like its namesake (yes, that Leonardo DiCaprio).

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