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Whoops: Authors didn’t mean to include new data in article about transgender...
Here’s something we don’t see that often — authors retracting one of their articles because it included new data. But that is the case with a 2017 review exploring the potential genetic and hormonal...
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That study reporting worrisome levels of zinc in tuna? It’s being retracted
Recently, a rash of news outlets posted concerns that canned tuna and other products may contain potentially dangerous levels of zinc. They were all wrong. News outlets such as The Daily Mail and The...
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How much cancer stems from diabetes, obesity? Lancet journal swaps...
Six months ago, the media was ablaze with the findings of a new paper, showing that nearly six percent of cancer cases are caused, at least in part, by obesity and diabetes. But this week, the journal...
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Does the Mediterranean diet prevent heart attacks? NEJM retracts (and...
The New England Journal of Medicine has retracted a 2013 paper that provided some proof that the Mediterranean diet can directly prevent heart attacks, stroke, and other cardiovascular problems. The...
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A journal decided to correct, rather than retract, a paper that contained...
In March, a journal published a paper about blood sugar levels in newborns that caused an immediate outcry from outside experts, who were concerned it contained a sentence that could be potentially...
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Distraction 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...
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A 2015 PNAS paper is six pages long. Its correction is four pages long.
Sometimes, corrections are so extensive, they can only be called one thing: Mega-corrections. Recently, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) issued a four-page correction notice...
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Showdown over a study of abortion policy leads to a retraction, and leaves no...
Elard Koch A paper in Contraception that purported to show serious flaws in an earlier study of abortion laws and maternal health has been retracted, after the authors of the original study found what...
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Study claiming hate cuts 12 years off gay lives retracted
Low Library, Columbia University After years of back and forth, a highly cited paper that appeared to show that gay people who live in areas where people were highly prejudiced against them had a...
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Will scientific error checkers become as ubiquitous as spell-checkers?
Jonathan Wren How common are calculation errors in the scientific literature? And can they be caught by an algorithm? James Heathers and Nick Brown came up with two methods — GRIM and SPRITE — to find...
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