Today's retraction notes that an investigation by Tilburg University, for whom Stapel worked until recently, indicated the study's data were fabricated.
There was no significant difference in area of the three types of wounds at day 0 and day 1 and there was no substantial retraction noted during the first days following wounding.
Four months later, Diagnostic Pathology: Open Access, a BMC journal, took the unusual step of updating a retraction notice, noting that the authors' institute in Shanghai, China, had found that the researchers "intended to purchase language editing services for their manuscript only and did not participate in influencing the peer review process". .
In such cases, if some authors still disagree with the retraction, we note the dissenting authors in the retraction notice".
Limited limb movement and slight subcostal retraction were noted at 50 days of age.
Eyelid retraction was noted two years prior to presentation, but she reported no proptosis or other signs of TAO.
Distal cyanosis, nasal flaring, rhonchi without crackles, and supraclavicular and intercostal retractions were noted, but no jaundice, lymphadenopathy or conjunctival hemorrhage were observed.
But as of the time of this posting, there is no note of retraction attached to the paper's abstract on the journal's Web site.
The update, Runtime 1.5, doesn't include the feature retraction in the release notes.
"In cases where a coauthor disagrees on a retraction, the dissent is noted in the text of the published retraction".
