#retraction — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #retraction, aggregated by home.social.
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A recent article exposed a widespread issue of Bangladeshi researchers having their papers retracted. However, the bigger issue may be accountability.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/08/12/bangladeshs-325-paper-retraction-crisis/
#ResearchIntegrity #AcademicIntegrity #Bangladesh #Retraction
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The senate has a standing rule never to discuss a matter on the same day when it was first introduced; all new business is deferred to the next meeting. They do this so that a man will not blurt out the first thought that occurs to him, and then devote all his energies to defending those foolish impulses, instead of considering impartially the public good. They know that some men would rather jeopardize the welfare of the state than admit to having been heedless and shortsighted — so perverse and preposterous is their sense of pride. They should have had enough foresight at the beginning to speak with prudence rather than haste.
[Quin id quoque moris habet senatus, ut nihil, quo die primum proponitur, eodem disputetur. sed in sequentem senatum differatur, ne quis ubi quod in buccam primum uenerit, temere effutierit, ea potius excogitet postea, quibus decreta tueatur sua, quam quae ex reipublicae usu sint. malitque salutis publicae, quam opinionis de se iacturam facere, peruerso quodam ac praepostero pudore, ne initio parum prospexisse uideatur. Cui prospiciendum initio fuit, ut consulto potius, quam cito loqueretur.]Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
Utopia, Book 2, ch. 3 “Of Their Magistrates” (1518 ed.) [tr. Adams (1992 ed.)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/85255/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #retraction #blurting #consideration #debate #deliberation #ego #error #firstimpression #hastiness #position #pride #prudence #reconsideration #congress #parliament
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Open Peer Review, Fewer Retractions: A Study That Proves Its Own Point
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A popular study that claimed students learn faster and better when they use AI in the classroom has been retracted. The reasons are painfully obvious.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/07/15/study-claiming-ai-helps-students-learn-retracted/
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Some might have seen mention of the retraction (by Springer) of two papers by Max Planck (you know, the Nobel prize winning physicist). There is an interesting summary of arguments and reasons provided by ‘Retraction Watch’ here.
Apparently Springer are ‘working hard’ to reverse them 🙄
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» Representatives from Springer Nature declined to comment, beyond saying that “detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors.” «
Good luck with reaching out to Planck…
Preprint:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17534#Science #Nature #Retraction #ScienceCommunication #Academia #OpenScience
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A prolific evolutionary biologist caught faking data decades ago notches a new retraction
#science 🧪
#retraction ❌
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Max Planck won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. He is considered the father of quantum mechanics. So why were two of his papers retracted?
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/06/29/the-mystery-of-the-max-planck-retractions/
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@IncHulk
Very well, Inc Hulk -- if that IS your real name -- a retraction you shall have, and I assure you that it IS both real and sincere:1) "You posted that Proton was pushing AI..."
Sir, if you are a man, madam, if you are not, a comment by @the_infamous higher in this thread is the only one I can find about Proton pushing Ai.
Since I didn't make that claim, I feel awkward retracting it, but you have politely asked for a retraction, and I freely give it.2) "Tuta foolishly picked it up and reposted as negative advertising..."
I am no more responsible for the actions of Tuta than I am for the posts of @the_infamous. But a retraction you have asked for, and a retraction you now have. (Full disclosure: I am not associated in any way with Tuta, other than having once signed up for a Tuta account in an attempt to migrate away from Gmail, and also I follow Tuta on the Fediverse.)3) "(to which I very object strongly, it is a trump-approach)."
I fully support your right to object however you want to anything done by Trump or any of its spellings or capitalizations. In fact, because I am myself a sufferer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, I reflexively object to anything he, they, his regime, his cabinet, his offspring, his wife, his agents or persons he has assigned have done, are now doing, or will do in the future.4) "As far as I can tell, you fabricated and unfairly blamed Jen."
Yes, I DID fabricate "Jan," NOT, "TheJen."
I don't recall blaming either Jen or TheJen for anything.
But if I did, I retract anything I might have said or written about Jen or TheJen, and wish to express contrition for having done so.
As to "Jan," though it pains me to do so, I retract any statements that I made as me pretending to be Jan, and I apologize to you and to the fictitious character Jan, that I made up.5) "Unless I have misunderstood, this is very unpleasant of you and needs to be reported, unless you post a retraction of course."
Since I am incapable of truly knowing what you understand or misunderstand, I will merely apologize for being unpleasant and strive to be less so in the future.
I hope you will find this retraction quenches your thirst to file a report, and that you will feel heard and in receipt of the respect that is your due.
May we now all, each in our own way, respect our purity of essence and conserve our precious bodily fluids.
Ramen.
Bong hits 4 Jesus.
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By acknowledging the #journalism is rotted from the core by paid corporate journalists #sanewashing If paid: there is possible conflict of interest In #science: it is mandatory to declare such interests in each paper - otherwise it is a reason for paper #retraction #withdrawal It's a deep issue
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A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-09-05), “Time for a Change –?” Colorado Volunteers for Stevenson Dinner, Denver, ColoradoMore about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #confession #eatingcrow #eatingmywords #error #provenwrong #retraction #verbosity #words
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Analysis of over 1,300 retracted medical studies using randomized controlled trials found that six people were responsible for 22% of retracted studies, and a further group of 18 were responsible for another 25% of retracted studies.
Because many of the studies took years to be retracted, their impact extends to data summaries and other studies that have relied on their findings.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-tiny-circle-poisoned-100s-gold.html
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Initial questions about this #retraction risk calculator:
What about negative phrases in social media posts that are NOT actually about the linked article?
What about negative posts about a paper that don’t actually link to the paper? (Screenshots, “link in comment” posts, etc.)
#NLP #sentimentAnalysis #webScraping #bibliometrics #Altmetric #stats
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🤨 TIL I'm a leader in (wait for it) "negative posts" about research?
— including my posts about MY research?!
— in league with Rob Sica? ...and ED YONG?!!Fortunately this #Retraction Risk calculator considers more than just our (false negative?) posts!
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48th #Retraction for Didier Raoult - by @[email protected] - because the IRB approvals did not cover all regions and experiments. PubPeer concerns raised by me in March 2021: pubpeer.com/publications... journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:d5iszsq5wzdmn3p3ufhye3sy/post/3miu3gn6njc2c
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Half-century old shenanigans by Big Talc-Asbestos only now being retracted:
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/03/25/lancet-retraction-commentary-talc-powder-johnson-johnson-industry-consultant/
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Ein spannender Aspekt fürs wissenschaftliche Arbeiten sind ja zurückgezogene Artikel. Wer in einer ersten Recherche etwas Interessantes gefunden hat, das dann später zurückgezogen wurde, kann das schon mal übersehen. Das Problem wird hier behandelt - mit Tool-Tipps, um solche Fehler zu vermeiden:
https://www.tub.tuhh.de/blog/2026/02/23/retraction-watch-zurueckgezogene-artikel/#FediCampus, #WissenschaftlichesARbeiten #Literaturrecherche #Retraction
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Another #retraction for former National Institute on Aging division director Eliezer Masliah today. link.springer.com/article/10.1... pubpeer.com/publications... Combined work by @[email protected] , @[email protected], Matthew Schrag, @[email protected] and me.
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Ars Technica Publishes A Post With Quotes Fabricated By AI
Ars Technica recently published an article that had quotes that were fabricated by AI/LLMs. When called on it by the person who was “quoted” for the sheer fact that he was NEVER contacted for a quote, Ars did a retraction.
There’s much talk about the ethics here and some good commentary here.
On the latest episode of the TWiT podcast Intelligent Machines, Leo Laporte, Emily Forlini, and Jeff Jarvis talked about it more.
For context: Jeff is a journalism professor and author, Leo is a veteran radio guy, and Emily is a senior reporter at PCMag.
So these guys should have an opinion on this.
Jeff was even handed and explained it like you’d expect a professor to be. Emily was more where I’m at, this reporter needs to be fired. This gives journalism a bad name (one that the industry fights all the time to avoid).
I was a professional journalist for 6 years in the early 2000s, if someone made up quotes then they’d be axed without discussion.
Why not now?
There is no excuse! None!
This is as bad as Stephen Glass‘ fiasco at the New Republic and Jayson Blair at the NYTimes. This is just for the AI age.
What do you think? Am I too heated about this? I might be. But this really gets my blood boiling.😁😃🍻
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one thing I like about Wikidata's SPARQL endpoint(s), is how easy you can work out new ideas...
I still happy with this one: it shows the citations to a retracted article, *before* and *after* the retractions :) https://qlever.scholia.wiki/retraction/Q34377294#citations-per-year
More about retraction knowledge in @wikidata visualized with @wdscholia here: https://qlever.scholia.wiki/retraction/
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Now there are two areas where it seems that increased #retraction rates are likely not due to increased scrutiny of published articles, but, rather, due to lower quality publications. I would still not bet that these data will help sway any of the “increased scrutiny” proponents.
https://bjoern.brembs.net/2026/01/retraction-data-are-still-useless-almost/
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Update. A letter to the editor about a study I posted to this thread 11/23/25: "The suggestion that [the lower #retraction rate for women] is because male researchers undergo more scrutiny, propose bolder ideas and lead larger and more dynamic teams than do female researchers implies that male scientists are better at science. As female scientists, our lived experience points to alternative explanations: elevated rigour and scientific integrity by female scientists or more critical peer review of female-led manuscripts."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00120-y
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The folks at #Retraction #Watch are my #science #heroes, detecting #falsified scientific studies. Follow the link to read about all that they do: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/science-journals-retract-500-papers-a-month-this-is-why-it-matters-8ckm8lfw9
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The second #retraction for the group of Kalipada Pahan at @[email protected], with findings by @[email protected] and myself. 36 of his papers have made it to @[email protected]. Kudos to @[email protected]. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... pubpeer.com/publications... #ImageForensics #ThisImageIsFine