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'MAHA' Study Under Scrutiny over Citations of Non-Existent Scientific Studies

39% Center coverage: 39 sources

The Trump administration’s recent report on children’s health issues cites a study linking screen time to sleep problems. It quotes research tying pharmaceutical advertising to increased ADHD prescriptions for children. It refers to a finding that the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to mental illness and substance abuse among children and adolescents. However, these studies — and others cited in the “Make America Healthy Again” report — don’t actu…See the Story

Cambridge, Massachusetts · Cambridge

Weekend reads: A university ‘integrity index’; surgeon falsely claims Harvard Ph.D.; more on ‘gold standard science’ executive order

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10 years after the downfall of a same-sex marriage canvassing study, tenure, some better practices — and an engagement

A study on how conversations can change minds grabbed headlines when it was published — and again five months later when retracted. “Gay Advocates Can Shift Same-Sex Marriage Views,” read the New York Times headline. “Doorstep visits change attitudes on gay marriage,” declared the Los Angeles Times. “Cure Homophobia With This One Weird Trick!” Slate…Read Article

Fourth retraction for Italian scientist comes 11 years after sleuths flagged paper

PLOS One has retracted a 2011 paper first flagged for image issues 11 years ago. The retraction marks the fourth for the paper’s lead author, Gabriella Marfè of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli,” in Caserta, Italy. “Involvement of FOXO Transcription Factors, TRAIL-FasL/Fas, and Sirtuin Proteins Family in Canine Coronavirus Type II-Induced Apoptosis,” has been cited 41 times, according to Clarivate’s Web of Science. Elisabeth Bik fl…Caserta · Caserta Read Article

$900,000 grant to Retraction Watch’s parent organization will fund forensic analysis of articles that affect human health

The Center for Scientific Integrity, the parent nonprofit of Retraction Watch, has launched a new initiative to investigate and rapidly disseminate problems in the medical literature that directly affect human health. Thanks to a $900,000 grant from Open Philanthropy, the Medical Evidence Project will leverage the tools of forensic metascience — using visual and computational methods to determine a paper’s trustworthiness — to rapidly identify p…United States · United States Read Article

Guest post: NIH-funded replication studies are not the answer to the reproducibility crisis in pre-clinical research

Barbara Smaller/The New Yorker Collection/The Cartoon Bank President Trump recently issued an executive order calling for improvement in the reproducibility of scientific research and asking federal agencies to propose how they will make that happen. I imagine that the National Institutes of Health’s response will include replication studies, in which NIH would fund attempts to repeat published experiments from the ground up, to see if they gene…United States · United States Read Article

Paper on “wokeness” and mental health retracted for political reasons, authors say

The authors of an article linking scores on a “wokeness” scale and mental health issues are blaming political bias for the retraction of their paper in March following post-publication peer review. The article, “Do Conservatives Really Have an Advantage in Mental Health? An Examination of Measurement Invariance,” appeared in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology last August. It has been cited twice, according to Clarivate’s Web of Science, on…Health · Denmark Read Article

IQ study retracted in fallout from decades-old misconduct report

The authors of a paper on how motivation influences intelligence test scores have retracted their paper following the retraction of a 50-year-old study included in their analysis. Part meta-analysis and part longitudinal study, “Role of test motivation in intelligence testing” appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011. The meta-analysis portion included a 1978 paper by Stephen Breuning, a child psychologist who was th…United States · United States Read Article

Meet the first two Retraction Watch Sleuths in Residence

We are thrilled to announce that David Robert Grimes and Mariana Ribeiro will join the Retraction Watch team as Sleuths in Residence starting June 1. Earlier this year we announced the Sleuth in Residence Program, an opportunity for active sleuths to have a secure and paid position while working closely with our research team on specific projects, and with our journalism team to publish their findings. Our goal is to build capacity in this space…Rio De Janeiro · Rio De Janeiro Read Article

‘More of the same’: Journals, trade website refuse to correct critiques of book on Alzheimer’s fraud

Amyloid-beta plaques (brown) and tau protein tangles (blue). Credit: National Institute on Aging/NIH Investigative journalist Charles Piller’s latest book, Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy i…Alzheimer's Disease Read Article

Weekend reads: French agency’s research director sanctioned; AI data woes at MIT; is disruptive science over?

Dear RW readers, can you spare $25? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Scopus indexed a journal with a fake editorial board and a sham archive. When we asked them about it, they removed it. Can a better ID system for authors, reviewers and editors reduce fraud? STM thinks so. Correction finally issued seven years after authors promise fix ‘as soon as possible.’ Researchers to pull duplicate submission after reviewer concerns and Retraction …Science · France Read Article

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'MAHA' Study Under Scrutiny over Citations of Non-Existent Scientific Studies

Weekend reads: A university ‘integrity index’; surgeon falsely claims Harvard Ph.D.; more on ‘gold standard science’ executive order

10 years after the downfall of a same-sex marriage canvassing study, tenure, some better practices — and an engagement

Fourth retraction for Italian scientist comes 11 years after sleuths flagged paper

$900,000 grant to Retraction Watch’s parent organization will fund forensic analysis of articles that affect human health

Guest post: NIH-funded replication studies are not the answer to the reproducibility crisis in pre-clinical research

Paper on “wokeness” and mental health retracted for political reasons, authors say

IQ study retracted in fallout from decades-old misconduct report

Meet the first two Retraction Watch Sleuths in Residence

‘More of the same’: Journals, trade website refuse to correct critiques of book on Alzheimer’s fraud

Weekend reads: French agency’s research director sanctioned; AI data woes at MIT; is disruptive science over?

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