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IRB mishap costs MD Anderson team a paper on prostate cancer
A group of researchers from MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has lost a 2013 paper in BJU International for running afoul of their institution’s ethics review board, and of military reviewers, as...
View ArticleAnother withdrawal by MD Anderson’s Aggarwal, again for unclear reasons
Bharat B. Aggarwal, the MD Anderson researcher under investigation at his institution over concerns of image manipulation, has withdrawn a second paper, although you’d never know why from the...
View ArticleCorrection for MD Anderson’s Bharat Aggarwal arches eyebrows for the right...
We’ve written about mega-corrections that allow scientists to retrace virtually all of their steps yet preserve their publications as supposedly legitimate. And we’ve seen plenty of corrections that...
View ArticleScientist whose work is “not fully supported by the available laboratory...
Yesterday, we reported that Sunil Kumar Manna, the head of immunology at India’s Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, had retracted two papers for image problems. Turns out Manna will be...
View ArticleTwo Expressions of Concern in Blood for MD Anderson’s Aggarwal, who has...
Bharat Aggarwal, the MD Anderson researcher who has threatened to sue us while under investigation by his institution for alleged misconduct, now has two Expressions of Concern in addition to two...
View ArticleCancer researcher has correction upgraded to retraction
Rakesh Kumar, a researcher with six recent corrections and one retraction, has had one of those corrections upgraded to a retraction. Here’s the unhelpful notice, from Molecular Endocrinology: The...
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