{
  "id": 2686372,
  "title": "Weekend reads: Senators ask FDA for more oversight following deaths in China clinical trials; image duplication in Alzheimer’s papers; ‘AI Is Ruining Scholarship’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/22/weekend-reads-senators-ask-fda-for-more-oversight-following-deaths-in",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-22T10:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Retraction Watch",
    "slug": "retraction-watch",
    "url": "https://retractionwatch.com/2026/08/22/weekend-reads-senators-call-on-fda-following-deaths-in-china-clinical-trials-image-duplication-in-alzheimers-papers-ai-is-ruining-scholarship/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A third death has been revealed in China's clinical trials with the popular but opaque CAR-T trials. Two Republican lawmakers have called on the FDA to increase scrutiny of Chinese trial data following these deaths. Forensic image analysts are finding apparent duplications or anomalies in Alzheimer's disease papers. AI is being criticized for ruining scholarship as outsourcing literature review to algorithms results in the loss of entire sectors of knowledge.",
  "summary": "If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 66,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions … Continue reading Weekend reads: Senators ask FDA for more oversight following deaths in…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}