ONLY *8 years after* a court case revealed that #Monsanto employees ghostwrote a research article on weed killer Roundup's "safety" for humans was the article #retracted! Damn! The US exists solely for #corporations and #wealthy people to make boatloads of money at the expense of everyone else's #health. 💰💰💰💰
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/glyphosate-safety-article-retracted-elsevier-monsanto-ghostwriting/
Glyphosate safety article retracted eight years after Monsanto ghostwriting revealed in court
Credit: Mike Mozart/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) A review article concluding the weed killer Roundup “does not pose a health risk to humans” has been retracted eight years after documents released in a court…
Question for
#repository managers, what do you do if you detect that one of your articles has been
#retracted for the journal?
#openaccessRETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans
"…in the context of misrepresentation of the contributions by the authors & the study sponsor & potential conflicts of interest of the authors."
#Glyphosate study
#retractedRETRACTED: Safety Evaluation a...📰 | #Retracted: Die Frass-Studie „#Homöopathie bei #Lungenkrebs“ ist zurückgezogen worden
Vor zwei Wochen haben wir schon darauf hingewiesen – jetzt ist es soweit:
Das renommierte Fachjournal The Oncologist hat die Skandal-Studie zum „Überleben von Lungenkrebspatienten mit homöopathischer Komplementärbehandlung“ (#Frass et al. 2020) zurückgezogen.
Bernd Harder stellt im #SkeptixBlog innerlich den Gin kalt. Kalt genug ist es ja.
https://skeptix.org/2025/11/25/retracted-die-frass-studie-homoeopathie-bei-lungenkrebs-ist-zurueckgezogen-worden/
#TheOncologist
Retracted: Die Frass-Studie "Homöopathie bei Lungenkrebs" ist zurückgezogen worden - Skeptix
Fünf Jahre hat's gedauert. Aber Beharrlichkeit und Integritätsarbeit haben jetzt zum Retract einer skandalösen Homöopathie-Studie geführt.
ChatGPT tends to ignore retractions on scientific papers
Study finds the chatbot doesn’t acknowledge concerns with problematic studies
🚫☄️ #Retracted: The controversial (if not to say: obscure) paper on a "Tunguska sized airburst [that allegedly] destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle #BronzeAge city in the Jordan Valley" has been finally retracted by @nature Sci Rep after several corrections & strong criticism:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea - Scientific Reports
We present evidence that in ~ 1650 BCE (~ 3600 years ago), a cosmic airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, a Middle-Bronze-Age city in the southern Jordan Valley northeast of the Dead Sea. The proposed airburst was larger than the 1908 explosion over Tunguska, Russia, where a ~ 50-m-wide bolide detonated with ~ 1000× more energy than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. A city-wide ~ 1.5-m-thick carbon-and-ash-rich destruction layer contains peak concentrations of shocked quartz (~ 5–10 GPa); melted pottery and mudbricks; diamond-like carbon; soot; Fe- and Si-rich spherules; CaCO3 spherules from melted plaster; and melted platinum, iridium, nickel, gold, silver, zircon, chromite, and quartz. Heating experiments indicate temperatures exceeded 2000 °C. Amid city-side devastation, the airburst demolished 12+ m of the 4-to-5-story palace complex and the massive 4-m-thick mudbrick rampart, while causing extreme disarticulation and skeletal fragmentation in nearby humans. An airburst-related influx of salt (~ 4 wt.%) produced hypersalinity, inhibited agriculture, and caused a ~ 300–600-year-long abandonment of ~ 120 regional settlements within a > 25-km radius. Tall el-Hammam may be the second oldest city/town destroyed by a cosmic airburst/impact, after Abu Hureyra, Syria, and possibly the earliest site with an oral tradition that was written down (Genesis). Tunguska-scale airbursts can devastate entire cities/regions and thus, pose a severe modern-day hazard.
From the Retraction Watch blog: “The International Wound
#Journal has
#retracted 242 papers so far this year as part of an ongoing investigation into manipulated
#peer #review.”
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/03/31/wiley-international-wound-journal-retracts-over-200-more-papers/
Wiley journal retracts over 200 more papers
The International Wound Journal has retracted 242 papers so far this year as part of an ongoing investigation into manipulated peer review. We reported in December the journal, a Wiley title, had r…
🧵 1/3: Hydroxychloroquine as a Covid-19 treatment is now dead and buried:
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A study that stoked enthusiasm for the now-disproven idea that a cheap malaria drug can treat COVID-19 has been retracted — more than four-and-a-half years after it was published.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04014-9
#COVID19 #science #hydroxycholoroquine #DidierRaoult #retracted
Controversial COVID study that promoted unproven treatment retracted after four-year saga
Paper on hydroxychloroquine led by French researcher Didier Raoult is second-most-cited study ever to be withdrawn.
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