Study that said hate cuts 12 years off gay lives fails to replicate
A highly cited paper has received a major correction as a result of the ongoing battle over attitudes towards gay people, when a prominent — and polarizing — critic showed it could not be replicated....
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Title: Adherence to Adjuvant Neuropathic Pain Medications in a Palliative Care Clinic What Caught Our Attention: We’ve found a fourth retraction for the unlicensed use of a common research tool, an...
View ArticleCaught Our Notice: Retraction eight as errors in Wansink paper are “too...
Title: Shifts in the Enjoyment of Healthy and Unhealthy Behaviors Affect Short- and Long-Term Postbariatric Weight Loss What Caught Our Attention: Cornell food marketing researcher Brian Wansink, the...
View ArticleHey journals, it is possible to quickly correct the record
Even when a paper is obviously flawed, it can take years for journals to take action. Some never do. But it doesn’t have to be that way. On April 27, a reader emailed the editors of two journals,...
View ArticleDistraction paper pulled for clerical error
The authors of a 2018 paper on how noisy distractions disrupt memory are retracting the article after finding a flaw in their study. The paper, “Unexpected events disrupt visuomotor working memory and...
View ArticleUniversity finds dozens of papers by late — and controversial — psychologist...
More than two dozen papers by a controversial psychologist who died in 1997 are “unsafe,” according to a recent report by his former employer and obtained by Retraction Watch. The research has been...
View Article“Do we have the will to do anything about it?” James Heathers reflects on the...
We have a tension about resolving inaccuracies in scientific documents when they’re past a certain age. Specifically, what should we do with old papers that are shown to be not just wrong, which is a...
View Article“I decline to respond” but “take this history to undermine”
There are various ways to respond to criticism of one’s work. There is the “well, that’s not pleasant news, but thank you, I’ll correct that straightaway” approach. There’s the “I guess we’ll correct...
View ArticleFormer Northwestern psychology prof has paper subjected to an expression of...
A paper by Ping Dong, a former researcher at Northwestern who left her post less than a year after having a paper retracted from Psychological Science, has been subjected to an expression of concern....
View Article61 retractions for controversial psychologist Hans Eysenck? That’s a...
In a recent Retraction Watch guest post on the “Eysenck affair,” James Heathers notes the extraordinary possibility that as many as 61 Hans Eysenck publications might be retracted. I believe this...
View Article‘A long and lonely process:’ Whistleblowers in a misconduct case speak out
Last week, we reported on a case at the University of Leiden in which the institution found that a former psychology researcher there had committed research misconduct. In the anonymized report — which...
View ArticleJournal calls 2012 paper “deeply offensive to particular minorities”
An Elsevier journal plans to issue a retraction notice this week about a widely criticized 2012 paper claiming to find links between skin color, aggression, and sexuality. Earlier this month, we...
View ArticleSpringer Nature ‘continuing to investigate the concerns raised’ about paper...
What’s the link between obesity and dishonesty? If that question seems preposterous on its face, you’re probably among the critics of a 2020 paper in Scientific Reports which claimed to find that...
View ArticleMajor indexing service rejects appeals by two suppressed journals
Journals hoping that Clarivate Analytics — the company behind the Impact Factor — would reverse their decision to suppress their titles from the closely watched metric are batting .500. In July, as we...
View ArticleJournal retracts paper claiming smarter people are more likely to use a...
A psychology journal has retracted a 2020 paper purporting to find that smarter people are more likely to use a condom during sex to avoid HIV. The new study, by researchers from Singapore and the...
View ArticleHeard about the study claiming men who carry guitar cases are more...
A controversial psychologist has lost a bizarre paper which claimed that men who carry guitar cases do better with the ladies. The article, which had appeared in the journal The Psychology of Music in...
View ArticleTwo meditation papers retracted for failures to report primary outcomes
A pair of psychology journals have retracted two related papers on the health benefits of a popular form of meditation after a reader pointed out that the authors failed to report the primary outcome...
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A grad student finds a ‘typo’ in a psychedelic study’s script that leads to a...
Paul Lodder Sometime after it was published, Paul Lodder, a graduate student at the University of Amsterdam, had been trying without success to replicate the findings of a 2020 paper in Scientific...
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Paper that helped form basis of pricy research tool retracted
Donald Morisky Nearly four years after a critic pointed out flaws in a paper about a controversial research tool involved in nearly 20 retractions, the owner of that instrument has lost the article...
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Do some IQ data need a ‘public health warning?’ A paper based on a...
Richard Lynn A journal has retracted a controversial 2010 article on intelligence and infections that was based on data gathered decades ago by a now-deceased researcher who lost his emeritus status...
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