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Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: PNAS wouldn’t let authors cite unpublished manuscript. Now, it admits it was wrong.
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. Question: Do you value Retraction Watch? If so, would you consider a tax-deductible donation…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Paper used to support WHO guidelines on preventing infections “has no scientific validity”
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. A surgery journal retracted a 2014 paper last month after discovering that the study…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Authors claim clinical trial data came from one center. It came from three.
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. A BMJ journal has retracted a 2017 paper that made a false claim about…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Author: “The retractions were about bureaucracy, not science”
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. A researcher has retracted two 2014 papers, after discovering they had not gone through…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Marketing researcher admits to falsification, resigns
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. A business journal has retracted two papers after the corresponding author admitted he falsified…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: UCSF-VA investigation finds misconduct in highly cited PNAS paper
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. PNAS has corrected a highly cited paper after an investigation found evidence of misconduct….
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: “Clear signs of manipulation” in paper co-authored by prominent geneticist
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. A third paper co-authored by researchers based at a prominent lab whose work has…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Stem cell researchers investigated for misconduct recommended for roles at Italy’s NIH
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. Two stem cell scientists who left Harvard University in the aftermath of a messy…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Journals retract 30 papers by engineer in South Korea
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. An engineer in South Korea has lost 30 papers, at least seven of which…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Oops: Elsevier journal retracts the wrong paper
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. When Saidur Rahman learned last month that his 2010 review paper about nanoparticles in…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: A “GROSS CASE OF PLAGIARISM:” How did one Elsevier journal plagiarize another?
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. When Nicholas Peppas, chair of engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, discovered…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Journal investigating earlier work by author of discredited fish-microplastics paper
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. A biology journal is investigating concerns about a 2014 paper by a marine biologist…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Cancer researcher under cloud of suspicion wins $300,000 science prize
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. Carlo Croce, who has had numerous papers retracted and corrected for issues including image…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Unusual: Author uses a reference list to accuse a paper of plagiarism
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. Here’s an unusual way to allege plagiarism: Do it in the reference list. That’s what…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Three papers retracted… for being cited too frequently
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. An engineering journal has retracted three 2016 papers. The reason: They had been cited…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: University defends researcher accused of plagiarizing former Pope
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. A university in Switzerland has come to the defense of a communications researcher found…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: “The most terrible experience of my life:” Authorship dispute leads to lawsuit
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. A journal has retracted a 2014 paper because of an authorship dispute that became…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: Author retracts 2009 chemistry paper with “heavily doctored” images
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. A researcher has retracted a 2009 chemistry paper after discovering that a figure had…
Database Proof Substratum: Substratum of Proof LGBTQs Are Mentally Ill: “A painful lesson:” Authors retract paper after discovering mislabeled mouse lines
Gendrome Editors’ Note: The article below provides the raw material for a proof and is not the proof itself. In addition, the raw material may contain one or more false statements and/or some offensive, outside content. Neuroscientists have retracted a 2016 paper examining the genetic underpinnings of a degenerative motor…
