If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed.

The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Study by Duke’s Dan Ariely retracted after sleuths find signs of data tampering
• Journal retracts paper claiming network of corridors inside the Great Pyramid of Giza
• Oxford researchers retract Nature paper on ‘atmospheric thirst’ for calculation errors

In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 67,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions is approaching 700, and our mass resignations list has more than 50 entries. We keep tabs on all this and more. If you value this work, please consider showing your support with a tax-deductible donation. Every dollar counts.

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

• “The AI ‘Ghosts’ Contaminating Academic Publishing,” based on a preprint finding LLMs generate fictional names working in teams and documenting the effects in scholarly repositories.
• “Fraud Law Whistleblowers Are Constitutional, Appeals Court Rules.” Attorneys feared the challenge could chill reporting of research fraud.
• “China launches largest-ever academic misconduct crackdown,” calling out over 40 researchers in a report after “Student Geng” scrutiny.
• “Autism-Vaccine Researcher Says He Stole $1M in CDC Grant Funds.”
• “Intellectual squatting“: A statistician at...

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