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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

• Paper by gene therapy Zolgensma developer retracted because of discrepancies in mouse survival rates
• Med school vice dean says he’s correcting paper amid negative misconduct inquiry
• A grad student finds a ‘typo’ in a psychedelic study’s script that leads to a retraction
• When failure to correct a flawed paper could put patients’ lives at risk
• Frankincense extract paper is 30th retracted by former MD Anderson researcher who once threatened to sue Retraction Watch

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 265. There are more than 36,000 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):

• “ExxonMobil ordered to reinstate fired whistleblowers who alleged fraud.”
• “Characteristics of Retracted Research Articles About COVID-19 vs Other Topics.”
• “This video got me thinking about a different metaphor: journals as the sewage works standing between pipes full of untreated research and the pristine beaches of public discourse.”
• “Our model estimated that submissions between midday and 1 PM had the lowest odds of...

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