Retraction notices — the explanatory statements published alongside papers that have been withdrawn from the literature — have become more clearly worded and easier to access in some cases, according ...

Retractions in rheumatology clinical trial literature have increased “substantially” over the past 35 years, largely due to misconduct, according to findings published in Arthritis Care & ...

When a 2012 study came out suggesting that a certain type of genetically modified corn caused cancer in rats, many were skeptical. Since then, one scientific group after another has said that the ...

University of Minnesota academics were forced to retract an article they wrote about “structural racism” at the institution because its claims were “inaccurate, misleading, or false,” according to a ...

When my colleague Adam Marcus, editorial director at Medscape, and I launched the blog Retraction Watch in 2010, we didn’t realize we were riding a wave. At the time, we thought journals were issuing ...

Tiger sharks, named for their dark vertical stripes resembling a tiger's pattern, are known as "garbage cans of the sea" due to their indiscriminate feeding habits, consuming a wide variety of prey ...

Most people would not have been interested in the sins of Ariel Fernández. In 2013 someone suggested that Mr. Fernández, an Argentine scientist, had contributed bad data to a genomics paper. Two of ...