Dissemination of Erroneous Research Findings and Subsequent Retraction in High-Circulation Newspapers A Case Study of Alleged MDMA-Induced Dopaminergic Neurotoxicity in Primates.
Ensuring the public is informed of retractions has proven difficult for the scientific community. While it is possible that newspapers focus differential attention on publication of scientific articles and their subsequent retractions, this topic has received minimal attention from researchers. To learn more, we analyzed newspaper coverage of the high-profile 2002 article