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“When I looked carefully at the spreadsheet, I could see entire blocks of data that were repeated,” recalled John Loadsman, an anesthesiologist and scientific sleuth at the University of Sydney. “It was obvious that this was cooked.”

High-profile anesthesiologists earning retractions for data, image problemsCredit: funkenzauber/Adobe Stock In July 2021, John Loadsman received a manuscript about a clinical trial that immediately roused his suspicion. Then the editor-in-chief of Anaesthesia and Intensiv…retractionwatch.com

Sixteen years ago today, Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus founded Retraction Watch. Happy birthday to us!

Celebrating Retraction Watch’s 16th birthday, how sweet it isSuddenly, we’re 16. And what a year it has been.  Our birthday (and annual birthday post) comes on the heels of one of the biggest stories we’ve told this year: The unreported death of a 6-yea…retractionwatch.com

Weekend reads: University and journal investigating gene-editing death; ADA ‘must take accountability’; psychedelic therapy paper faces retraction

Weekend reads: University and journal investigating gene-editing death; ADA ‘must take accountability’; psychedelic therapy paper faces retractionIf your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Journal, university investigations launched into gene-editing death f…retractionwatch.com

A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Informa of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges.

Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing chargesiStock A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges…retractionwatch.com

"What we did not anticipate was that the organization would apparently interpret 'policing their literature' as involving actual police to prevent people from reading opinion pieces." "We once praised the American Diabetes Association’s courage. How things have changed." In @statnews.com

We once praised the American Diabetes Association’s courage. How things have changed“The ADA is no longer what we’d call a profile in courage,” write Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky of Retraction Watch.www.statnews.com

Nature is investigating concerns surrounding a paper at the heart of a news story we published with @science.org last week on the death of a 6-year-old girl following a gene therapy treatment in China.

Journal, university investigations launched into gene-editing death following Science-Retraction Watch reportingNature is investigating concerns surrounding a paper at the heart of a news story published last week on the death of a 6-year-old girl following a gene therapy treatment in China. The paper, publi…retractionwatch.com

Around 400 U.S. patents contain at least one citation to a retracted scientific paper, a new study has found.

Just over 400 U.S. patents contain citations to retracted scientific papersSurendra/Adobe Stock Around 400 U.S. patents contain at least one citation to a retracted scientific paper, a new  study has found.  The analysis, posted last month to the preprint server…retractionwatch.com

The online data repository Kaggle has removed a problematic dataset for violating intellectual property rights months after it was flagged by sleuths for containing celebrity photos and lacking information on data provenance or confirmed medical diagnoses.

Kaggle removes problematic stroke dataset for copyright infringementImages from the now-deleted dataset on Kaggle purportedly showed images of people who had a stroke, but the folder included stock images, politicians and celebrities, as seen in this screenshot. Th…retractionwatch.com

"AI is an accelerant, not the kindling. The kindling is publish or perish." "We don't need generative AI to make a dog's breakfast out of scientific literature." Our Ivan Oransky speaks with @cenmag.bsky.social

Can we stop AI from flooding scientific journals?AI detectors may never beat fraud. Changing how science rewards its researchers might be the only fix that doescen.acs.org

After Arday enlisted Carter-Ruck, one of the United Kingdom’s leading defamation law firms, to send @timeshighered.bsky.social a letter, the publication spiked the story, according to three sources who spoke to Retraction Watch.

Exclusive: News outlet killed story on plagiarism allegations after Cambridge prof hired law firmJason Arday In September 2025, Times Higher Education had a bombshell story in the works: A star sociology professor at the University of Cambridge had allegedly plagiarized parts of his Ph.D. thes…retractionwatch.com

Chinese university launches probe into girl’s gene-editing death days after investigation by @retractionwatch.com and @science.org investigation revealed the fatality.

Chinese university launches probe into girl’s gene-editing deathMore than a year after failed clinical trial, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine promises “serious action”www.science.org

A leading environmental economics journal is looking into claims that a 2025 study linking national innovation to lower carbon emissions contains data that does not match its source, after an expert in the field requested the paper be retracted.

Journal investigating apparent data mismatch in climate studyA leading environmental economics journal is looking into claims that a 2025 study linking national innovation to lower carbon emissions contains data that does not match its source, after an exper…retractionwatch.com

Weekend reads: Young girl’s death after gene therapy never made public; FDA retracts lettuce test result; ADA delays editorial publication after controversy

Weekend reads: Young girl’s death after gene therapy never made public; FDA retracts lettuce test result; ADA delays editorial publication after controversyIf your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Exclusive: A couple’s daughter died after they paid more than $…retractionwatch.com

Forty-one editors, associate editors and advisory board members resigned from their roles at the Review of Social Economy after the Association for Social Economics, which owns the journal, renewed its contract with publisher Taylor & Francis.

Editors of economics journal resign after association renews Taylor & Francis contractForty-one editors, associate editors and advisory board members resigned from their roles at the Review of Social Economy after the Association for Social Economics, which owns the journal, renewed…retractionwatch.com

A couple paid more than $800,000 for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died, and it wasn’t made public. An exclusive from us and @science.org.

Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made publicParents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation revealswww.science.org

A biomedical journal has retracted a paper by a cancer researcher who sued her former institution over misconduct allegations. The action comes a decade after a sleuth first raised concerns about the article.

Journal retracts breast cancer paper 10 years after sleuth flagged issuesA biomedical journal has retracted a paper by a cancer researcher who sued her former institution over misconduct allegations. The action comes a decade after a sleuth first raised concerns about t…retractionwatch.com

A medical student in Nepal is at the center of an international research network churning out everything from systematic reviews and meta-analyses to case reports and database studies. Representatives from leading clinical societies, following our inquiry, will be giving them a closer look.

Exclusive: Medical student in Nepal behind busy research factoryA second-year medical student in Nepal is at the center of an international research network churning out everything from systematic reviews and meta-analyses to case reports and database studies, …retractionwatch.com

The alleged extortion and its aftermath also include an editor-in-chief who admonished Sen for “making accusations” and using “unprofessional language,” a complaint to the FBI, and the manuscript’s author suggesting Retraction Watch accepted a “bribe” from Wiley.

Publisher investigating peer reviewer for alleged bribery schemeDeagreez/iStock Earlier this year, Tushar Sen, an independent researcher based in New Delhi, submitted a manuscript to Security and Privacy about the modeling of polymorphic malware. On May 15, a p…retractionwatch.com

Weekend reads: Private info in ‘most’ arXiv preprints; why did George Church decline authorship; 28 misconduct cases in China

Weekend reads: Private info in ‘most’ arXiv preprints; why did George Church decline authorship; 28 misconduct cases in ChinaIf your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: ‘Disappointed’: Cochrane journal asked researchers to publish article…retractionwatch.com

A group of researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston have lost a paper for image duplication following an investigation by the two institutions.

Harvard cancer researchers earn retraction for image duplicationA group of researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston have lost a paper for image duplication following an investigation by the two institutions.  The pap…retractionwatch.com