A discredited study that set off a flurry of interest in using an antimalarial drug to treat COVID-19 has now been formally withdrawn. A scientific journal on Tuesday retracted the March 2020 study ...

The number of retractions issued for research articles in 2023 has passed 10,000 — smashing annual records — as publishers struggle to clean up a slew of sham papers and peer-review fraud. Among large ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

In a recent research letter published in JAMA Network Open, a team of researchers compared the author characteristics and causes for manuscript retractions of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and ...

Retraction, a process in which a journal withdraws research after publication, is an essential tool for pruning flawed or fraudulent studies from the scientific literature. But a preprint posted to ...

In 1998, a now debunked study claimed that there was a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. The fiasco that surrounded this study eroded trust in science and was blamed for a drop in vaccination ...