{"id":20507,"date":"2022-09-02T13:27:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T11:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=20507"},"modified":"2022-09-26T18:10:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T16:10:26","slug":"papers-that-should-have-been-retracted-not-corrected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/09\/papers-that-should-have-been-retracted-not-corrected\/","title":{"rendered":"Papers that should have been retracted, not corrected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FredrikJutfelt\/status\/1498972933569630213\">mentioned many times before\u00a0<\/a> and has been even officially published by <a href=\"https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/retraction-guidelines\">COPE<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Science is either replicable or not. If not, it should be corrected. If faulty or fabricated, it should be retracted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"474\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow. During all of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID__19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID__19<\/a> there have been 3 journal articles that presented data outside of my covid worldview. This JAMA article was the scariest, but has now been \u201ccorrected.\u201d Not scary anymore. The other 2 articles were fully retracted. Hard not to be cynical. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UpQtnIEPzS\">pic.twitter.com\/UpQtnIEPzS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Robert Smith, MD, MSc, FACC, FSCAI (@RFscai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RFscai\/status\/1298675027777331200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"474\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you agree with me that we as scientists should not agree with such corrections-of-manipulated-data, please help me by writing to the Editor in Chief of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JNeurophysiol?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JNeurophysiol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4nyJIroK8F\">https:\/\/t.co\/4nyJIroK8F<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GRx1BabRX9\">pic.twitter.com\/GRx1BabRX9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elisabeth Bik (@MicrobiomDigest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MicrobiomDigest\/status\/1539734386819473408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"474\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is wrong. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrontPlantSci?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FrontPlantSci<\/a> decided to correct &#8211; not retract &#8211; a paper with &quot;inappropriate manipulation&quot; in twelve (12) photos. <br \/>And also, let&#39;s replace seven (7) more photos &quot;to avoid any additional questions or concerns&quot;.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E4zdH3tIN1\">https:\/\/t.co\/E4zdH3tIN1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3KKtKbNElg\">pic.twitter.com\/3KKtKbNElg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elisabeth Bik (@MicrobiomDigest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MicrobiomDigest\/status\/1216890618871308288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/mortenoxe\/status\/1566781004345495554<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/mortenoxe\/status\/1574344639997411329<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 26.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been mentioned many times before\u00a0 and has been even officially published by COPE Science is either replicable or not. If not, it should be corrected. If faulty or fabricated, it should be retracted. &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 26.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[3523,96,218],"class_list":["post-20507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-image","tag-misconduct","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20507"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20719,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20507\/revisions\/20719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}