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In the News
There is an increasing number of stories about research integrity; there's even a blog that follows retracted research.
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2021 - Drug researchers retract two papers, one because “human stem cells were actually mouse stem cells”A group of drug researchers has lost a pair of 2020 papers for a lack of reproducibility and other problems, including the unfortunate mislabeling of murine stem cells as having come from humans.
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2017 - Three figures in blood pressure paper were manipulated, says journalA pharmacology journal has retracted a 2011 paper after concluding images in three figures had been manipulated. From Retraction Watch.
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2016 - U. of Colorado Rescinds Pharmaceutical Researcher’s Ph.D. Over Falsified DataFrom the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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2015 - Former Iowa State U. Scientist Will Plead Guilty in Research-Fraud CaseFrom the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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PubPeer - The Online Journal ClubA website that provides anonymous comments on published research.
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Retraction WatchNote these posts: "Geothermal paper undermined by borrowing data without citing" & "U Colorado “golden boy” grad student faked data in drug lab, says investigation."
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Last Updated: Oct 8, 2025 4:03 PM
Subjects: Health Sciences