Mistakes, fakes, and a giant rat penis: why are so many science papers being retracted? – podcast
by Presented by Ian Sample, produced by Madeleine Fin from Science | The Guardian on (#6JT3F)
A record 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023. To find out what's driving this trend, Ian Sample speaks to Ivan Oransky, whose organisation Retraction Watch has been monitoring the growing numbers of retractions for more than a decade, and hears from blogger Sholto David, who recently made headlines when he spotted mistakes in research from a leading US cancer institute.
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