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. 💰💰💰💰
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(CC BY 2.0) A review article concluding the weed killer Roundup “does not pose a health risk to humans” has been retracted eight years after documents released in a court…
📰 | #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.
#Science #authors and #editors, you need to know about this #problem with #ChatGPT: If authors use ChatGPT & end up #citing #retracted #research #papers, that reduces their own papers' believability & usefulness. https://cen.acs.org/policy/publishing/ChatGPT-tends-ignore-retractions-scientific/103/web/2025/08
H/T to @grammargirl's AI Sidequest, issue 78.
🚫☄️ #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:
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.
🧵 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
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