下面是昨天美国撤稿网站公布的一个案例。文章发表后，杂志联系作者所在单位，单位证实作者没有原始数据，从而通知杂志撤稿。

当然，我还知道一个例子。证据确凿，杂志撤稿，但作者继续被克林顿故乡的大学评为先进工作者。

所以，处理不端告诉你是作真研究，还是在起哄。

“The article must be retracted:” Journal pulls prostate cancer study

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A 2016 paper exploring the biology of prostate cancer has been retracted due to figure manipulation.

According to the retraction notice, a reader contacted the journal Clinical Cancer Research in late 2016 with concerns that similar bands appeared multiple times in two images. The editors asked the paper’s corresponding author, Shahriar Koochekpour, about the issue and requested the raw data for the figures. But Koochekpour, based in the Departments of Cancer Genetics and Urology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York, at the time of the study, could not locate the raw data.

Since the lab did not have raw data from such a relatively recent paper, the editors reached out to the research integrity officer at Roswell Park Cancer Institute to investigate. Indeed,  the research integrity officer contacted confirmed that two figures were problematic, and requested the paper be retracted.