Yesterday, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNASS) published a retraction notice, signed by all seven authors, for the 2010 study, which, like the Science paper, had come under fire from virologists.
Scientific misconduct, and not honest mistakes, account for more than two-thirds of retractions, a paper published today online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNASsuggestssuggests
An investigation of retractions from the biomedical scientific literature database PubMed published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA PNASS) found that a whopping 63.2% of health- and life-science related retractions were due to fraud, suspected fraud or plagiarism, with good old honest error retractions in the sound minority.
The prosecution's case was also severely undermined by the retraction of key testimonies from three lead witnesses, who admitted during proceedings they did not know whether the three journalists had undermined national security – contradicting written claims they made before the trial.
According to a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, two-thirds of all retractions follow from scientific misconduct: fraud, duplicate publication and plagiarism.
Jean Medina, a United spokeswoman, said the airline had asked the newspaper for a retraction, and that the company's lawyers would decide whether to start legal proceedings.
A spokeswoman for the cancer center said Dr. Zou told the editors of Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that he would not sign the latest retractions.
"We considered the initiation of legal proceedings very carefully before coming to this decision, and only decided to proceed once the ABC refused to issue a retraction or apology," Clubs NSW's chief executive, Anthony Ball, said.
@skysportsnews issuing a retraction now.
It asked for a retraction.
