Journal editors find excuses to avoid retraction

Dec. 10, 2012 I’ve been surprised – naively, I suppose – by the refusal of professional journals such as Nursing Research, Child Abuse & Neglect and Relational Child & Youth Care Practice to retract articles that supported the moral panic of ritual abuse in day cares. The editors’ common justification is that they published no “specific errors,” such as citing … Continue reading Journal editors find excuses to avoid retraction