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Jan 05, 2007

The hits just keep on coming for the Taiwan research team charged with manipulating images in a paper they published in the October edition of Cell. The scientists, who contend that no such image-doctoring took place, have formally retracted the article. A news article about it can be found here.

And speaking of retractions, one of the ScienceBlogs writers weighs in on the slew of papers that have been yanked on the finding that an algorithm used by a team that originally published it in Science yields flawed data. Blogger Sandra Porter writes, "I'm stunned that 364 publications cited his 2001 paper and no one tested the software with data sets from positive controls!"

 

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