April 30, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

April 30, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

Astrobiology

AstrobiologyResearch ethicsResearch IntegrityRetractions

At long last, Science retracts controversial, hyped up paper on ‘arsenic life’

Science did not retract the paper in 2012 because there was no deliberate fraud or misconduct on the part of the authors. But Science’s standards for retracting papers have since expanded. If a paper’s reported experiments do not support its key conclusions, even if no fraud or manipulation occurred, a retraction is considered appropriate

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AstrobiologyResearchResearch Integrity

Open science — a transparent and novel way to do research

At a time when many papers published in reputed journals are being retracted on the grounds of unethical practices like

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