Retraction Watch
Coverage of Retraction Watch in the Nexus archive.
- Chinese scientist faces probe after girl, 6, dies ‘following experimental gene therapy’
A Chinese scientist is under investigation by his university after a six-year-old girl, Mei, died following experimental gene-editing therapy. The treatment, designed to correct a genetic mutation affecting her neurodevelopment, was administered in March last year, and her parents reported she had suffered adverse effects post-treatment.
- Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?
A scientific journal retracted two 1940s papers by Max Planck, a pioneer of quantum mechanics, citing 'article violation.' Historians Yves Gingras and Mahdi Khelfaoui investigated the retraction and shared their findings in a preprint posted to arXiv.
- 'Comically bad' datasets used to train clinical models for stroke and diabetes
Clinical models for stroke and diabetes were trained using 'comically bad' datasets from Kaggle. The datasets used to train these models have been called out for their poor quality. This issue raises concerns about the reliability of the models.