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Recent Examples of retraction
One leading member of the journal’s editorial board, a stubborn advocate for using hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin to treat COVID-19, has lost five papers to retraction.
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Adam Marcus, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2025
According to a Nature analysis, the retraction rate tripled from 2012 to 2022 to close to .02%, or around 1 in 5,000 papers.
—Guillaume Cabanac, The Conversation, 29 Jan. 2025
Translated, the budget pressures that Fitch expects to continue squeezing higher education are coming from rising costs and stagnant public support and not necessarily from market retraction.
—Derek Newton, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
But the instant retraction of much of the world’s food and health-care infrastructure will create damage that cannot be undone.
—Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2025
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Adam Marcus, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2025
According to a Nature analysis, the retraction rate tripled from 2012 to 2022 to close to .02%, or around 1 in 5,000 papers.
—Guillaume Cabanac, The Conversation, 29 Jan. 2025
Translated, the budget pressures that Fitch expects to continue squeezing higher education are coming from rising costs and stagnant public support and not necessarily from market retraction.
—Derek Newton, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
But the instant retraction of much of the world’s food and health-care infrastructure will create damage that cannot be undone.
—Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retraction
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Erdoğan may need Kurdish support to run again Some analysts have said public suggestions by Erdoğan's political allies that Ocalan, the 75-year-old PKK leader, could be released in return for a renunciation of violence, form part of an effort to woo Kurdish voters.—
Willem Marx,
NPR,
1 Mar. 2025
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Enacted after the Civil War as a renunciation of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which held that Black people are not citizens of the U.S., the birthright citizenship clause has been relatively uncontested since 1868.—
Henry Gass,
The Christian Science Monitor,
30 Jan. 2025
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In 1990, after decades of denial by the Soviet Union, President Mikhail Gorbachev finally acknowledged the truth of those findings.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2025
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What the Check Host screenshots, or indeed the Telegram postings, cannot do is prove that Dark Storm is actually behind the X denial of service attacks.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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The concern about the bank’s future is heightened as the second Trump administration doubles down on its repudiation of climate projects and promotes an accelerated expansion of U.S. oil and gas projects.—
Max Bearak,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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America’s repudiation of its traditional foreign policy is being driven by both Trump’s particular obsessions and wider geopolitical changes.—
Stephen Collinson,
CNN,
22 Feb. 2025
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“Retraction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retraction. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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