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One retraction was evidently not fraudulent.
The journal action described in the underlying reporting was a mass *correction* notice (a “Society Note” stating it is a correction), not a retraction.
Full reasoning
The post appears to be referencing reporting about Paediatrics & Child Health adding a disclaimer across a large batch of case-report-style articles.
However, the public record for this event describes the journal issuing corrections (not retractions):
- Retraction Watch reports the journal “issued corrections on 138 case reports” and that the editor-in-chief said they “made the decision to add a correction notice to all 138 publications.” This contradicts describing the journal action as a “retraction.”
- Oxford Academic (the journal’s publisher platform) hosts the relevant notices as “Society Note” items that explicitly say “This is a correction to:” and include the disclaimer text about the vignettes being fictional. These are correction notices, not retraction notices.
Because the post specifically characterizes the action as a “retraction,” it’s factually inaccurate in this context: the evidence shows the journal issued correction notices (Society Notes that are corrections), not retractions.
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- A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction – Retraction Watch
Retraction Watch reports the journal “issued corrections on 138 case reports” and quotes the editor-in-chief: “we made the decision to add a correction notice to all 138 publications…”
- Society Note on 15 papers to add disclaimer | Paediatrics & Child Health | Oxford Academic
The notice states “This is a correction to:” and includes: “Every clinical vignette presented within the journal's Surveillance Highlights section describes a fictional case…” (i.e., it is presented as a correction, not a retraction).
- Society Note on 123 papers to add disclaimer | Paediatrics & Child Health | Oxford Academic
The notice includes: “Every clinical vignette… describes a fictional case…” and is structured as a correction notice (not a retraction).