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The week at Retraction Watch featured:
- A review claimed a researcher was an expert in sex robots. He’s not
- Iraqi dean earns another retraction for paper posted for sale on Facebook
- Sleuth loses paper for duplicate publication after flagging hundreds of untrustworthy articles
- Controversial Paxil “Study 329” earns expression of concern after critic sues publisher
- Exclusive: Iraqi university forcing students to cite its journals to graduate
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Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):
Continue reading Weekend reads: Spinal researcher gave patients ‘false hope’; HHS admits error in laying off top ethics official; Alzheimer’s fraud trial set to begin