Tuesday, May 21, 2002

Science reporting can suffer from a problem I hadn't even considered: that of citing retracted studies. A study of 235 retracted scientific journal articles showed that these articles were cited 2034 times after being retracted (in addition to being cited before being retracted). Let's hope that study hasn't been retracted.

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