Journal retracts, republishes paper on Long COVID treatment trial
Annals of Internal Medicine has retracted a paper on treatments for Long COVID because the authors did not report dosing information for metformin, one of the drugs tested in the study. The editor-in-chief of the journal called the exclusion “sloppy” and “inaccurate.” The same day the journal retracted the paper, it published a new version … Continue reading Journal retracts, republishes paper on…
A former Ph.D. student at the Francis Crick Institute has had a paper on COVID-19 vaccines retracted due to fabrication of data and falsification of images. The retraction, announced on October 14, marks the second time the individual, Kevin Ng, has faced such consequences this year. The original article, published in July 2022, investigated whether a vaccine targeting a specific SARS-CoV-2 virus component could protect against various COVID-19 variants in mice.
Ng's work has been cited 83 times in Clarivate’s Web of Science. During the editorial investigation, Ng admitted to the fabrication, which also raises doubts about other experiments in the paper due to the unavailability of primary data and samples. Ng's supervisor, George Kassiotis, and two other Crick researchers are coauthors on the retracted paper.
The Crick Institute's investigation into a related Nature paper found Ng to be solely responsible for the fabrication, leading to a broader review of his other works. The institute found no evidence of malpractice by other authors. Following the retraction, Ng shifted his focus from science to covering classical music.
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