The latest prominent withdrawal of research results from scientific literature is the retraction by Science of a study of changing attitudes about gay marriage. And it is very likely it will not be the last. A study by Nature in 2011, found an increase of 10-fold in retraction notices during the preceding decade. Continue reading… “A growing list of retracted scientific studies”
Stories about a disgraced researcher get pulled by WordPress.
A crazy story came to light after a DMCA takedown notice last week. The story involves falsified medical research, plagiarism, and legal threats. The site, Retraction Watch has followed the implosion of a Duke cancer researcher’s career (among the many other issues they follow), found a lot of its articles on the topic pulled by WordPress, its host. Why did this happen? It turns out that a small site in India copied all of the posts and claimed them as their own. They then filed a DMCA takedown notice to get the original posts pulled from their source. The original posts are still missing as their actual owners seek to have them restored.
Continue reading… “Site files DMCA takedown notice on blog it plagiarized”
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