Comments on: Correction for MD Anderson’s Bharat Aggarwal arches eyebrows for the right reasons

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:27:00 +0000

This is worth mentioning

By: Ressci Integrity

Ressci Integrity — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:46:03 +0000

I found this information while searching something…

http://www.iitg.ac.in/biotech/Faculty%20Homepage/A.B.Kunnumakkara.htm

Any one recalls this name along with the some of BBA’s papers…..

By: John Mashey

John Mashey — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:58:01 +0000

Ahh, thanks.

By: ivanoransky

ivanoransky — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:55:45 +0000

Thanks John — actually “retrace” is intentional there. If you click on the “mega-corrections” link, it’s clear these mega-corrections allow authors to repeat all their flawed experiments — or at least experiments whose presentations are deeply flawed — instead of having to retract.

By: John Mashey

John Mashey — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:14:49 +0000

“allow scientists to retrace virtually all of their steps”
retract?
English would work better if 1-letter errors did not generate English words accepted by spell-checkers.

By: ivanoransky

ivanoransky — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:02:19 +0000

Fixed, thanks!

By: Julia Demasi

Julia Demasi — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:43:40 +0000

Ha, ha, how many people make (do?) typos in the word “typo”?

By: Julia Demasi

Julia Demasi — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:42:46 +0000

There’s a tiny type in this article, almost at the end. Where it says “But, he added, is he learns that Aggarwal has been found guilty of fraud:” I think it should say “if he learns”.

By: Ressci Integrity

Ressci Integrity — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:34:51 +0000

Does anyone recall what ARS editor Dr. Sen did few months ago? He relieved Dr. Dipak Das as Editor-in-Chief within a few hours when retraction watch blog on Dr. Das was published..the link is here.
http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/uconn-resveratrol-researcher-dipak-das-fingered-in-sweeping-misconduct-case/#comments
Have a look at the ARS Editorial Board member list…you will see – who’s who in redox signalling…some links to RW there.

By: amw

amw — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:49:57 +0000

Weird that an integrity officer is involved. As Science Fraud points out, the correction is fundamentally flawed and misses the key issue (duplication of controls across different conditions). Perhaps MDA have told him that if he ‘corrects’ all the papers they can find him ‘not guilty’. If that’s the case, it shouldn’t matter if the corrections are accurate – they just have to be made.

Maybe he’s heading for a world record in terms of ‘corrections’?