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There is "Possible duplication of data between some of the figures". So some of the plots contain data from more that the column they're meant to be of. For e
by helsinkiandrew 4y ago
There is "Possible duplication of data between some of the figures". So some of the plots contain data from more that the column they're meant to be of.
For example:
Retraction: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2213288119 https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2213288119
Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1321510111 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1321510111
This could be a fundamental problem with the experiments that possibly could invalidate the conclusions or just a bug when creating figures for the paper. But if it was the latter surely a correction could be made fairly quickly - which suggests it's the former.
- sdenton4 4y agoThird possibility: they don't have the data on hand anymore to correct the figures with... It was a 2013 paper, after all. In their reaction statement they also provide a new citation which re-ran the experiments: "Confirmatory experimentation has now been performed and the results can be found in a preprint article posted on bioRxiv, ‘Homeostatic responses to hypoxia by the carotid body and adrenal medulla are based on mutual antagonism between HIF-1α and HIF-2α’"