A pivotal Lancet case report suggesting that codeine given to breastfeeding mothers could trigger opioid overdoses in babies is facing demands for investigation. The 2006 report came under scrutiny ...

Retractions correct the scientific record, but they have stigma attached to them. Some in the research community want that to change.

Retraction notices — the explanatory statements published alongside papers that have been withdrawn from the literature — have become more clearly worded and easier to access in some cases, according ...

University of Minnesota academics were forced to retract an article they wrote about "structural racism" at the institution because its claims were "inaccurate, misleading, or false," according to a ...

Last week, the coauthor of a widely publicized study from December showing that discussions with gay canvassers could sway voter opinions about gay marriage laws asked the journal that published it to ...

When a 2012 study came out suggesting that a certain type of genetically modified corn caused cancer in rats, many were skeptical. Since then, one scientific group after another has said that the ...

Nathan Georgette experienced the peaks and troughs of a life in science, all before he was old enough to buy a beer. And despite the typical stigma of retracting a scientific paper, Georgette, a ...

Most people would not have been interested in the sins of Ariel Fernández. In 2013 someone suggested that Mr. Fernández, an Argentine scientist, had contributed bad data to a genomics paper. Two of ...

Inspired by true events, RETRACTION follows journalist Wendy Cohen Denison as she publishes a bombshell exposé about a shocking crime at an esteemed university. Carolina Atlantic student Lacey’s ...