Researchers plan to retract landmark Alzheimer’s paper containing doctored images | Science | AAAS
Authors of a landmark Alzheimer’s disease research paper published in Nature in 2006 have agreed to retract the study in response to allegations of image manipulation. University of Minnesota (UMN) Twin Cities neuroscientist Karen Ashe, the paper’s senior author, acknowledged in a post on the journal discussion site PubPeer that the paper contains doctored images. The study has been cited nearly 2500 times, and would be the most cited paper ever to be retracted, according to Retraction Watch data.
I thought this was interesting in view of the recent Attia podcast on klotho, in which there was a lot of discussion of AD. On the one hand, I don’t really care why klotho works, if it works. But this may change their approach to understanding the mechanism of action.