The Retraction Watch blog reports that Harvard researchers have retracted two papers, Last week’s paper was pulled from Blood for “multiple instances of duplicate (redundant) publication of data, text, and images that are nonessential to the paper.”
The retraction notice referred to a paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC):
Today, we learned that the JBC paper has also been retracted. The notice, as we’ve come to expect from the JBC, is unhelpful:
This article has been withdrawn by the authors.
Last week, Harvard told RW it had “initiated a review process in accordance with both our institutional policy and federal regulations.”
The post notes that one of the authors is New Yorker writer Jerome Groopman, adding that Groopman “is neither senior nor lead author.”