The earliest suspected paper mill article retracted was published in 2004, according to the Retraction Watch database, which details retractions and is operated by The Center for Scientific ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has asked its staff to withdraw any scientific papers currently under consideration for internal or external publication so that certain words ...

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It also involved, by some of us, screening scientific articles looking for signs of fakery. Problematic Paper Screener: Trawling for fraud in the scientific literature What emerged is a deep ...

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CDC orders pull back to comply with Trump executive orders Agency directive to divisions comes after initial guidance to review communications Editors of scientific journals question the legality ...

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A Nature analysis of retractions hotspots around the world suggests institutions should pay close attention to retractions data. Cancer vaccines must induce immune cells, called CD8+ T cells, that ...

However, a 2020 internal NOAA report determined Jacobs and then-NOAA communications director Julie Kay Roberts compromised the agency’s scientific integrity policy with the statement.