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7 stories tagged "research-integrity"
The Zombie Papers: Retracted Stem-Cell Studies Still Feeding the Unproven-Cure Marketplace
A stem-cell paper retracted in November 2021 kept collecting citations for years, 72 by mid-2026, 27 of them after the notice went up, 15 since 2023 that never mention it. Two researchers counted, and named who is supposed to be cleaning up.
InvestigationsA Journal Built to Critique Capitalism Sold for €360,000. Its Fifteen Editors Read the New Fees and Quit.
A €360,000 sale, a €1,350 charge to publish, and a 25 percent fee to withdraw your own paper: the board of a journal built to critique capitalism read the new terms and resigned en masse.
Investigations'No Falsification': JAMA Keeps a Purdue-Funded Opioid Paper Its Own Retraction Rule Says to Pull
Court records from a 2007 federal case show Purdue had flagged 8 possible-withdrawal cases a year before its 2000 study called withdrawal rare. The journal says that isn't falsification, so the paper stays in print.
InvestigationsA Gene-Editing Trial Killed a Six-Year-Old. The Only Official Penalty Was a $3,500 Fine.
Xinhua Hospital paid about 24,000 yuan in September 2025. The death it was fined over stayed out of the medical literature for another ten months, and out of the Nature paper entirely.
InvestigationsA Gene-Editing Trial Killed a 6-Year-Old. Nature Published the Science and Left Her Out of the Record.
Her parents paid $860,000 to base-edit their daughter's brain. She died of an immune reaction within a week, the trial's fatal outcome was never disclosed, and the Nature paper built on the same work never names her.
Brain & AgingThe Brain Was Starving Before the Plaques Showed Up: Alzheimer's Metabolic Reframe Has a Case, Not a Trial
A rising camp says failing mitochondria, not amyloid plaques, may drive Alzheimer's first. The biology is compelling and the amyloid monoculture earned its reckoning, but the metabolic side has its own retractions and not one human trial showing it works.
InvestigationsVietnam's New Integrity Rule Arrives 251 Retractions Late
Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology issued a research-integrity framework with permanent bans on May 25, 2026. The Retraction Watch database already lists 251 retractions carrying Vietnamese affiliations.