Several media organizations were forced to make retractions Tuesday after falsely attributing a staggering Obama-era migrant child-detention statistic to President Trump. On Monday, Manfred Nowak, an ...

In a story on illegal child labor, no detail is more important than age. That’s an axiom that NBC News and Noticias Telemundo illuminated on Wednesday with a retraction of an April 12 report that was ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Retractions are a sign that science is working as it should. But ...

This month, both The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet retracted controversial studies testing COVID-19 treatments. Neither noted the part that public critique played. These are not the ...

When my colleague Adam Marcus, editorial director at Medscape, and I launched the blog Retraction Watch in 2010, we didn’t realize we were riding a wave. At the time, we thought journals were issuing ...