Science Retractions: Top 5 Withdrawn Studies Of 2012 - 0 views
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Hyung-In Moon is a genius, says Hyung-In Moon
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Korean scientist Hyung-In Moon took the concept of scientific peer review to a whole new level by reviewing his own papers under various fake names
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Moon's research — which included a study on alcoholic liver disease and another on an anticancer plant substance — can't be trusted
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Peer review is a process in which scientific peers in the same field judge the merit of a submitted journal paper
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editors at the Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry grew suspicious when four of his glowing reviews came back within 24 hours. Anyone who has ever submitted a paper for peer review knows that reviewers take weeks or months to reply
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published in January 2010 but not retracted until April 2012, despite silly sentences such as "Computer magnification is a Universal computer phenomenon" and "This is a problematic problem."
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retracted the paper because it "contains no scientific content." The editors chalked it up to "an administrative error
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meat eaters are absolved: One of Stapel's studies, now suspected to be fabricated, found that meat eaters are more selfish and less social than vegetarians
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Studies proposing a link between cellphone use and cancer often rely on weak statistics. This one just used fudged data
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stating that cellphones in standby mode lowered the sperm count and caused other adverse changes in the testicles of rabbits
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the lead author didn't get permission from his two co-authors and, according to the retraction notice, there was a "lack of evidence to justify the accuracy of the data presented in the article."
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biologist Shinya Yamanaka had just won the 2012 Nobel Prize for his discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), which are adult cells that can be reprogrammed to their "embryonic" stage
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claimed at a New York Stem Cell Foundation meeting in early October to have advanced this technology to cure a person with terminal heart failure
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He is sticking to his story, however, that one patient was cured … at a Boston hospital not yet named