Questions remain over prosecutors' plans for Madoff's wife, Ruth, who, according to court papers, withdrew $15.5m from an account linked to her husband's investment empire in the weeks running up to his arrest.
On 25 December, the journal declared the paper withdrawn.
Ward informed the Pictorial that Keeler's story was largely false, and that he and others would sue if it was printed, whereupon the paper withdrew its offer, although Keeler kept the £200.
Einstein, for example, bristled at criticism of his papers, withdrawing one submitted to The Physical Review after an anonymous peer reviewer pointed out an error.
Seventeen research papers were withdrawn because their authors could not be there to present them.
Unfortunately, one of these 49 accepted papers was withdrawn by the authors during the production phase.
PW: So basically you were showing us that we had another way we could publish this work without incurring further delays, and it gave us the strength to then send an e-mail to the journal just saying we would like to hear a decision on this paper in the next 24 hours, otherwise please consider the paper formally withdrawn.
After the paper's publication, prominent HIV scientists John Moore of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and Nobelist Françoise Barré-Sinoussi of the Pasteur Institute in Paris wrote Elsevier to ask that the paper be withdrawn.
The paper was withdrawn yesterday after its first two authors, ornithologists Richard Prum of Yale University and Mark Robbins of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, listened to recordings of the woodpeckers' calls.
Within a few hours of being made public, the paper was withdrawn and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) distanced itself from the document, suggesting that there had been an "unfortunate misunderstanding".
