#today I am in at uni, likely the last time this year, for #JournalClub this morning. We will be reviewing the Monsanto glyphosate safety paper #retraction: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230099913715

People have been citing this #glyphosate paper for 25 years! -- "The #retraction notice cited documents made public through litigation in the U.S. that suggest employees of Monsanto, which makes Roundup, may have helped write the article without proper acknowledgment — a practice known as #ghostwriting. The documents also suggest Monsanto may have paid the study's authors."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/glyphosate-retraction-9.7004363

🎉🔍 Look out, world! A #groundbreaking, "influential" #study on #glyphosate #safety has finally been retracted after only a quarter of a century. Because, you know, #science is all about being #timely and accurate... eventually. 🔬⏳
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2025/12/03/influential-study-on-glyphosate-safety-retracted-25-years-after-publication_6748114_114.html #retraction #news #accuracy #HackerNews #ngated

Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2025/12/03/influential-study-on-glyphosate-safety-retracted-25-years-after-publication_6748114_114.html

#HackerNews #glyphosate #retraction #study #safety #science #environment

You know all of those recent results showing glyphosate / RoundUp are dangerous?

And how some apologists retort "yeah well we have decades of data not showing harm"?

Turns out that old data that purportedly demonstrates safety was falsified!!!

https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/115644006415261401

#pesticides #glyphosate #retraction #retractionWatch #herbicide #gardening #Garden #toxicology

Retraction Watch: Meet the researcher aiming to halt use of ‘fundamentally flawed’ database linking IQ and nationality. “Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/29/retraction-watch-meet-the-researcher-aiming-to-halt-use-of-fundamentally-flawed-database-linking-iq-and-nationality/

Good point from Shigeki Matsubara: When a #retraction stems from the author's request, the retraction notice should say so.
https://www.jmaj.jp/detail.php?id=10.31662/jmaj.2025-0364

#ScholComm

Headline in #Retraction #Watch, the blog that monitors #science publishing: “Bug in #Springer #Nature #metadata may be causing ‘significant, systemic’ #citation #inflation.” https://retractionwatch.com/2025/11/11/bug-in-springer-nature-metadata-may-be-causing-significant-systemic-citation-inflation/

#SGU #TheSkepticsGuideToTheUniverse
The Skeptics Guide #1052 - Sep 6 2025

Quickie with Bob: Real #Interstellar #Technosignatures; News Items: Sexless #Seeds, Spouses Share Psychiatric #Disorders, #CRISPR Improvement, #Robotic Bee, Tin Man Syndrome #Retraction, Super #Wood; Who's That #Noisy; Taxing Deductions; #Science or Fiction

Webseite der Episode: https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu

Mediendatei: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/skepticsguide/skepticast2025-09-06.mp3

Retraction Watch: Fighting coordinated publication fraud is like ‘emptying an overflowing bathtub with a spoon,’ study coauthor says. “Systematic research fraud has outpaced corrective measures and will only keep accelerating, according to a study of problematic publishing practices and the networks that fuel them.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/10/retraction-watch-fighting-coordinated-publication-fraud-is-like-emptying-an-overflowing-bathtub-with-a-spoon-study-coauthor-says/

Huge collaboration of frauduent researchers discovered, leading to numerous retractions at Frontiers journals
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/07/29/frontiers-retract-122-articles-links-thousands-other-publishers-journals-to-unethical-network/
#Papermills #Frontiers #Retraction

Next #ReproducibiliTea in #Bielefeld on August 1st is a special edition on #Retraction: We read Protzko et al. (2024)(https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01749-9) and the corresponding Retraction Note (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01997-3) - Join us online/at V4-116. More info: https://burst.pages.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/burst/

"How the Growth of Chinese Research Is Bringing Western Publishing to Breaking Point"
by Christos Petrou

"By most accounts, the growth of Chinese research is a gift to the world. And to western publishers. ...

By other accounts, the growth of Chinese research has not been trouble-free. The retraction rate of China dwarfs the retraction rate of the OECD"

#scholarlykitchen #publishing #AcademicChatter #retraction #retractionWatch

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/08/guest-post-how-the-growth-of-chinese-research-is-bringing-western-publishing-to-breaking-point/

#ThirdIron has just announced a nice advancement in #retraction notification. Now, data about articles which cite one or more retracted articles have been added to #LibKey.

If a paper cites one or more #retractedarticles, LibKey will display an interstitial screen indicating which #citations have been retracted.

https://mailchi.mp/thirdiron/three-annoucements-june-8111474?e=8bc18694c1

#retractions #discovery #transparency #scholcomm #publications #retractedpublications #research #researchethics

Trop gros, trop cher, trop moche..., le système de publications scientifiques est à bout de souffle. Un article de "niche" pour passer un bon été :https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2025/07/07/le-monde-des-revues-scientifiques-au-bord-de-l-asphyxie_6619660_1650684.html
(allez au bout car il y a des messages d'espoirs...)

et en bonus, un "appui" sur l'usage de l'IA qui n'arrange rien,
https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2025/07/07/comment-l-ia-bouscule-les-publications-scientifiques_6619655_1650684.html

#science #preprint #recherche #pci #pubpeer #matilda #openaccess #retraction
@BorisBarbour @enroweb @ElisabethBik

Do men or women retract more often? A new study weighs in – @Retractionwatch.com
"more papers are authored by men (but) men retract disproportionally more papers than women"
#retraction #gender
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/07/01/men-women-retractions-gender-retraction-ratio/

Holy #conflict of #interest! From #Retraction Watch: #Wiley issued a mass correction at a #journal after finding nearly 100 papers with #undisclosed #COIs related to #submissions by #board #members & relationships between #authors & journal #editors. https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/17/geological-journal-wiley-correction-authors-fail-to-disclose-conflict-of-interest/

Eleven studies by Spanish scientist Rafael Luque are retracted due to fraudulent practices.

A new tool reveals the alleged cheating committed for years by the chemist, who was suspiciously prolific.

With his 11 studies eliminated by publishers, he is already “in the top 0.1% of the most retracted authors of all time”.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250610-eleven-studies-by-spanish-scientist-rafael-luque-are-retracted-due-to-fraudulent-practices?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Science #RafaelLuque #ScientificIntegrity #Argos #Research #DataManipulation #Retraction #Academia #Cheating #Chemistry #Wiley #Elsevier #Scitility

#alerta #correction #retraction

Apologies for the error, this is a liberal led protest of PursuitNW Church.

That being said my take remains the same, for the love of god don't go protest a church that the FBI is looking for an excuse to protect.

This is a potentially unwise protest that will lead to arrest and injury for little to no gain.

Its not likely to produce the optics the libs wish, the media will spin it as always.

#Seattle #FBI #PursuitNW #OnFireMinistries

Update. New study: "Male first authors have higher #retraction rates, particularly for scientific misconduct such as plagiarism, authorship disputes, ethical issues, duplication, and fabrication/falsification. No significant gender differences were found in retractions attributed to mistakes."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S175115772500046X