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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: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Monday May 01 2017, @02:27PM (1 child)

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Monday May 01 2017, @02:27PM (#502271) Homepage

    So what did the contentious paper say? That microplastic is, or isn't, harmful to fish?

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Monday May 01 2017, @02:43PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Monday May 01 2017, @02:43PM (#502279)

    IIRC, that it is harmful to fish. That was why it was controversial. Cleaning plastic out of the oceans to that level is likely cost-prohibitive.