Aside from the academic integrity issues, I'll also point out that this study was conducted with rats as participants. A few years ago, there was a Twitter account devoted to reposting out of context science news headlines with the suffix "in mice." The point was a lot of science news reporting buries the lede that the research they are reporting on was conducted in mice, and often, these results do not translate to humans.
All that to say, even if this article was not retracted, the included sample is important context for the results.
Our colleague, Bill Therrien, and I spent half of a lunch one day thinking about reviewing literature that used infra-human organisms in studies of disabilities and tracking how many of the findings made their way into applications with humans. It sounded like fun at the time, but too much work for probably too little gain. Sigh.
And those poor pregnant rats getting a human-sized dose of the vaccine? Yikes!
But, another thing: I remember that Sam Kirk conducted at least on study on (something like) "left-handed dyslexic rats." I think one can find Kirk's story about this in Jim Kauffman's and Dan Hallahan's edited book about "Personal Perspectives" of famous figures in LD.
Aside from the academic integrity issues, I'll also point out that this study was conducted with rats as participants. A few years ago, there was a Twitter account devoted to reposting out of context science news headlines with the suffix "in mice." The point was a lot of science news reporting buries the lede that the research they are reporting on was conducted in mice, and often, these results do not translate to humans.
All that to say, even if this article was not retracted, the included sample is important context for the results.
For more on the "in mice" Twitter account: https://jamesheathers.medium.com/in-mice-explained-77b61b598218
Great note, John! Thanks!
Our colleague, Bill Therrien, and I spent half of a lunch one day thinking about reviewing literature that used infra-human organisms in studies of disabilities and tracking how many of the findings made their way into applications with humans. It sounded like fun at the time, but too much work for probably too little gain. Sigh.
And those poor pregnant rats getting a human-sized dose of the vaccine? Yikes!
But, another thing: I remember that Sam Kirk conducted at least on study on (something like) "left-handed dyslexic rats." I think one can find Kirk's story about this in Jim Kauffman's and Dan Hallahan's edited book about "Personal Perspectives" of famous figures in LD.