Retraction notices — the explanatory statements published alongside papers that have been withdrawn from the literature — have become more clearly worded and easier to access in some cases, according ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Retractions are a sign that science is working as it should. But ...

A scientific journal has retracted a 2000 study frequently cited to defend the safety of the active ingredient in the ...

Retraction notices issued by scholarly journals have, to an extent, become clearer over time, a new analysis suggests. The researchers used retraction guidelines issued by the Committee on Publication ...

When my colleague Adam Marcus, editorial director at Medscape, and I launched the blog Retraction Watch in 2010, we didn’t realize we were riding a wave. At the time, we thought journals were issuing ...

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Nathan Georgette experienced the peaks and troughs of a life in science, all before he was old enough to buy a beer. And despite the typical stigma of retracting a scientific paper, Georgette, a ...