Barrett Rollins

A prestigious cancer institute corrects dozens of articles and retracts others after a blogger made a mistake

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The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has requested the retraction of six studies and corrections to another 31 articles after a scathing critique drew attention to alleged errors that one blogger and biologist said range from sloppiness to “really serious concerns.” The allegations – against top scientists at the prestigious Boston institute, which is a teaching affiliate … Read more

Six studies to be retracted by Harvard-affiliated hospital scientists

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Scientists at a Harvard-affiliated cancer hospital plan to retract six studies and correct another 31 as part of an ongoing investigation into image duplications and discrepancies in dozens of papers by some of the leading researchers. A post on For Better Science, a blog focused on scientific integrity, flagged potential problems in articles co-authored by … Read more