MacDonald: What Happens When They Retract 'The Science'?

It's been a minute since I milked a Jeff Childers post (Moooo!), but this was too good to pass up.

Retraction of the Research Article "SARS-CoV-2 S2–targeted vaccination elicits broadly neutralizing antibodies."

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This was not a minor study. Cited as authoritative in eighty-three other studies, it had twenty-one authors including PhD student Kevin W. Ng, his supervising professor, and over a dozen more from the prestigious Francis Crick Institute in London.

This makes the second paper to be retracted this year with Kevin's name attached; now a third is under review (published in Nature). Only Kevin went under the bus; and having gone down there, he is accumulating scandals faster than a teenager finding something to do on chore night.

Can you see why it caught my eye? It was cited in 83 studies, and then it was retracted; thus, my headline, and you all know this isn't the first bit of bad news for the Jabasaurus, passport-panicked progressive privacy pirates.

Why the retraction? Among other things, fabricated data and falsified images. And people wonder why we don't trust "the science."

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