Research ethics: Coercive citations in academic publishing

Eighth retraction marks slide of lung cancer work (+breast cancer) | Reuters

"...."To a certain extent, what I'm worried about is that this may show aspects of how it is becoming increasingly difficult to check the scientific literature and how that difficulty stems at least in part from lack of immediate access to data but also lack of code and documentation," Baggerly told Reuters Health.
Given the highly technical nature of the work, it's not surprising that the flaws in the papers weren't caught before they were published, according to Baggerly.
"That's actually OK," he said. "It's not OK that it took so long for the challenges to be accepted once the research was questioned."
"The other thing that is not OK is the fact that it made it into guiding clinical trials," Baggerly added.
Brawley said the story "is a tragedy in a number of different ways.".....