13th retraction by Nobel Laureate
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Makes me want to re-read On Bullshit
A Nobel prize-winning genetics researcher has retracted two more papers, bringing his total to 13.
Gregg Semenza, a professor of genetic medicine and director of the vascular program at Johns Hopkins’ Institute for Cell Engineering in Baltimore, shared the 2019 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for “discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”
Since pseudonymous sleuth Claire Francis and others began using PubPeer to point out potential duplicated or manipulated images in Semenza’s work in 2019, the researcher has retracted 12 papers. A previous retraction from 2011 for a paper co-authored with Naoki Mori – who with 31 retractions sits at No. 25 on our leaderboard – brings the total to 13.
The authors requested the latest pair of retractions, published September 4 in Cancer Research, according to the notices, which also mention “an institutional review by Johns Hopkins University.”
One of the papers, “PHGDH Expression Is Required for Mitochondrial Redox Homeostasis, Breast Cancer Stem Cell Maintenance, and Lung Metastasis,” was originally published in 2016 and has been cited 190 times, according to Clarivate’s Web of Science.
In October 2020, a PubPeer user commented that images labeled as representing tissue from two different mice looked “much more similar than expected.” The authors corrected the figure in 2022.
The retraction notice stated Johns Hopkins’ review determined the two images “had contiguous features, suggesting the images may be from the same mouse,” and “certain raw data” labeled to be from two different mice might also be from the same mouse. “The authors do not have confidence in the integrity of the data,” according to the notice.
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Makes me want to re-read On Bullshit
A Nobel prize-winning genetics researcher has retracted two more papers, bringing his total to 13.
Gregg Semenza, a professor of genetic medicine and director of the vascular program at Johns Hopkins’ Institute for Cell Engineering in Baltimore, shared the 2019 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for “discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”
Since pseudonymous sleuth Claire Francis and others began using PubPeer to point out potential duplicated or manipulated images in Semenza’s work in 2019, the researcher has retracted 12 papers. A previous retraction from 2011 for a paper co-authored with Naoki Mori – who with 31 retractions sits at No. 25 on our leaderboard – brings the total to 13.
The authors requested the latest pair of retractions, published September 4 in Cancer Research, according to the notices, which also mention “an institutional review by Johns Hopkins University.”
One of the papers, “PHGDH Expression Is Required for Mitochondrial Redox Homeostasis, Breast Cancer Stem Cell Maintenance, and Lung Metastasis,” was originally published in 2016 and has been cited 190 times, according to Clarivate’s Web of Science.
In October 2020, a PubPeer user commented that images labeled as representing tissue from two different mice looked “much more similar than expected.” The authors corrected the figure in 2022.
The retraction notice stated Johns Hopkins’ review determined the two images “had contiguous features, suggesting the images may be from the same mouse,” and “certain raw data” labeled to be from two different mice might also be from the same mouse. “The authors do not have confidence in the integrity of the data,” according to the notice.
@George-K said in 13th retraction by Nobel Laureate:
“The authors do not have confidence in the integrity of the data,”
Hmmm, well, the obvious question is why they published it in the first place if that was their thought. LOL
