A 2002 PNAS paper has been retracted by its authors, including senior author Pascal Goldschmidt, a prominent cardiologist and Dean of the University of Miami School of Medicine. News of the retraction was reported by Retraction Watch on Tuesday. The paper, “Deficient Smad7 expression: A putative molecular defect in scleroderma,”has been cited 198 times, Retraction Watch reported. Here is…
Circulation Retracts Paper By Stem Cell Pioneer And Its Own Editor
April 8, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Following an investigation by Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital a 2012 paper published in Circulation has been retracted. The “institutional review… determined that the data are sufficiently compromised that a retraction is warranted.” The two senior authors of the paper are Piero Anversa, a pioneering researcher in cardiac stem cells, and Joseph Loscalzo, the editor-in-chief of Circulation and the…
3 More Retractions For Emory Cardiology Group
December 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Three more articles from R. Wayne Alexander’s research group at Emory have been retracted in the last two months. Three papers were retracted in 2011, bringing the group’s current total to 6. (News about the recent retractions was first reported on Retraction Watch.) … Click here to read the full post on Forbes. R Wayne Alexander …
Scrutiny Of Sodium Meta-Analysis In Heart Uncovers Duplicated And Missing Data
May 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A meta-analysis published in the journal Heart has been retracted. As Adam Marcus writes in Retraction Watch, the retraction occurred when the journal editors learned “that two of the six studies included in the review contained duplicated data. Those studies, it so happens, were conducted by one of the co-authors [of the meta-analysis].” The article,…
Embers Of Poldermans Case Still Smoldering
March 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A prominent US cardiologist has rebuked Don Poldermans, the cardiovascular researcher at the center of a research scandal in the Netherlands. As reported here previously, Poldermans was fired for scientific misconduct by the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, where he had been a professor of medicine and the head of perioperative cardiac care. He was widely published and…
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