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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• “Unapproved euthanasia” of rats in neuroscience study leads to retraction
• High-profile paper that used AI to identify suicide risk from brain scans retracted for flawed methods
• Wiley and Hindawi to retract 1,200 more papers for compromised peer review
• Five years after saying it won’t retract Macchiarini paper, journal does so
• A high-quality cloned journal has duped hundreds of scholars, and has no reason to stop
• ‘Sad but necessary’: Ant researchers pull fossil paper over errant claim

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are more than 39,000 retractions in our database — which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers?

Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):

• A drug company that unsuccessfully sued a journal for libel has lost an appeal. Court decision here, background here.
• “Canada is essentially a wasteland for whistleblower protection.”
• Four years after a lower court ruled that the University of Texas at Austin could not revoke a PhD, the Texas Supreme Court has overturned the decision.
• “Genentech review of Tessier-Lavigne paper finds no evidence of fraud — but hints...

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