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The week at Retraction Watch featured:

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to 33.

Here’s what was happening elsewhere:

Weekend reads: Retracting racist and sexist work; The Lancet learns from a retraction; Trump administration interferes with publications