Court rejects attempt to prevent retraction of scientific paper
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029121
Nature : Five months ago a court ruled that a scientist could not prevent a journal from publishing statements that express concern about his papers. And now a court has rejected a lawsuit by a researcher who was attempting to prevent a journal from publishing a retraction of one of her papers. Guangwen Tang of Tufts University in Boston sued the publisher of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition because it sought to retract her 2012 paper about a study in which she fed children genetically modified rice but had not informed the participants’ parents about the genetic modification. Publishers say they have received threats of lawsuits over retractions in the past (and sometimes given in to them), but Tang’s case appears to have been the first to go to court.
