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posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 01 2017, @04:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the oops dept.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/paper-about-how-microplastics-harm-fish-should-be-retracted-report-says

It took more then 10 months, but today the scientists who blew the whistle on a paper in Science about the dangers of microplastics for fish have been vindicated. An expert group at Sweden's Central Ethical Review Board (CEPN) has concluded that the paper's authors, Oona Lönnstedt and Peter Eklöv of Uppsala University (UU), committed "scientific dishonesty" and says that Science should retract the paper, which appeared in June 2016.

Science published an editorial expression of concern [DOI: 10.1126/science.aah6990] [DX]—which signals that a paper has come under suspicion—on 3 December 2016, and deputy editor Andrew Sugden says a retraction statement is now in preparation. (Science's news department, which works independently of the journal's editorial side, published a feature about the case in March.)

The report comes as a "huge relief," says UU's Josefin Sundin, one of seven researchers in five countries who claimed the paper contained fabricated data shortly after it came out.

Related: Study Demonstrates Harm to Fish Caused by Microplastics (oops)


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @07:24AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @07:24AM (#502167)

    Somehow, I get the idea that the fish ate the plastic, degraded it a bit more, then pushed it out the other end of the fish.

    If anything, accelerating decomposition of the plastic back to the elements it was made from.

    I already know I eat a heckuva lotta stuff I can't digest just to put spacers in the system. Stuff like psyllium husk, bran, and a variety of sawdust-type stuff. If I don't do this, I will make some stuff very difficult to pass.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @08:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @08:09AM (#502176)

    psyllium husk

    Psyllium husk can be dangerous stuff, it buggered my joints and put me in hospital, and I don't dare risk eating it ever again.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @12:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @12:34PM (#502238)

    "Fish" is a bit too far stretch here. Check the article... they are larvae. You can also see the Styrofoam in the animal... I doubt that it will degrade enough the exit the animal again.