Retraction Watch

Posted by Celia Walter | 21 Jan, 2011

Retraction Watch
http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/
Even the most respectable scientific journal editors like to publish exciting research with entirely new ideas - which means that often, they have to retract articles after the fact (the most notable recent example is the Wakefield article linking autism to vaccinations, since revealed to be a fraud). That's why this blog which reports on retractions from scientific journals is so valuable. See also this article in Bad Science explaining the flaws in scientific publishing and in its acknowledgment of errors http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/15/bad-science-academic-journal-retraction

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