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r/science • u/SteRoPo • Oct 24 '22

RETRACTED - Health A study of nearly 2,000 children found that those who reported playing video games for three hours per day or more performed better on cognitive skills tests involving impulse control and working memory compared to children who had never played video games.

60.7k Upvotes

r/science • u/Wagamaga • Jan 05 '24

RETRACTED - Health Nearly 17,000 people may have died after taking hydroxycholoroquine during the first wave of COVID. The anti-malaria drug was prescribed to some patients hospitalized with COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic, "despite the absence of evidence documenting its clinical benefits,"

sciencedirect.com

6.2k Upvotes

r/science • u/Wagamaga • Dec 06 '21

RETRACTED AND REPLACED - Health More than half of young American adults ages 18-25 are either overweight or obese. The number of overweight young adults has increased from roughly 18% in the late 1970’s to almost 24% in 2018

washingtonpost.com

25.2k Upvotes

r/science • u/smurfyjenkins • Aug 31 '22

RETRACTED - Economics In 2013, France massively increased dividend tax rates. This led firms to reduce dividends (payments to shareholders) and invest profits back into the firm. Contrary to some claims, dividend taxes do not lead to a misallocation of capital, but may instead reduce capital misallocation.

24.0k Upvotes

r/science • u/Wagamaga • Apr 14 '23

RETRACTED - Health Wearing hearing aids could help cut the risk of dementia, according to a large decade-long study. The research accounted for other factors, including loneliness, social isolation and depression, but found that untreated hearing loss still had a strong association with dementia

14.7k Upvotes

r/science • u/mvea • Mar 15 '21

RETRACTED - Neuroscience Psychedelics temporarily disrupt the functional organization of the brain, resulting in increased “perceptual bandwidth,” finds a new study of the neurobiological mechanisms underlying psychedelic-induced entropy.

29.5k Upvotes

r/science • u/shiruken • Mar 24 '18

RETRACTED - Health States that restricted gun ownership for domestic abusers saw a 9% reduction in intimate partner homicides. Extending this ban to include anyone convicted of a violent misdemeanor reduced it by 23%.

msutoday.msu.edu

62.9k Upvotes

r/science • u/PHealthy • May 22 '20

RETRACTED - Epidemiology Large multi-national analysis (n=96,032) finds decreased in-hospital survival rates and increased ventricular arrhythmias when using hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without macrolide treatment for COVID-19

22.2k Upvotes

r/science • u/mvea • Mar 31 '18

RETRACTED - Physics Microsoft and Niels Bohr Institute confident they found the key to creating a quantum computer. They published a paper in the journal Nature outlining the progress they had made in isolating the Majorana particle, which will lead to a much more stable qubit than the methods their rivals are using.

5.2k Upvotes

r/science • u/mcscreamy • Oct 30 '17

RETRACTED - Medicine MRI Predicts Suicidality with 91% Accuracy

4.5k Upvotes

r/science • u/livininalighthouse • Nov 07 '22

RETRACTED - Epidemiology US adult cigarette smoking prevalence is much lower than expected based on trends before the e-cigarette era, in ways correlated with e-cigarette use as millions of adults make the switch. Effect is not explained by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.

274 Upvotes

r/science • u/Science_News • Mar 08 '23

RETRACTED - Physics A controversial superconductor may be a game changer — if the claim is true. Researchers claim a supercondutor made of hydrogen, nitrogen and lutetium operates at room temperature and much lower pressure than past superconductors

sciencenews.org

391 Upvotes

r/science • u/FUZxxl • Oct 29 '22

RETRACTED - Materials Science New approach to ‘cosmic magnet’ manufacturing could reduce reliance on rare earths in low-carbon technologies

588 Upvotes

r/science • u/TylerFortier_Photo • Sep 08 '24

RETRACTED - Physics On the same origin of quantum physics and general relativity from Riemannian geometry and Planck scale formalism

sciencedirect.com

43 Upvotes

r/science • u/jimmycarr1 • Jun 10 '20

RETRACTED - Health MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy May Have Lasting Benefits for PTSD

589 Upvotes

r/science • u/Previous-Industry965 • Mar 15 '24

RETRACTED - Materials Science The three-dimensional porous mesh structure of Cu-based metal-organic-framework - aramid cellulose separator enhances the electrochemical performance of lithium metal anode batteries

sciencedirect.com

131 Upvotes

r/science • u/Additional-Two-7312 • Oct 09 '22

RETRACTED - Chemistry New process could enable more efficient plastics recycling, study shows. Cobalt-based catalysts could be used to turn mixed plastic waste into fuel, new plastics, and other products

345 Upvotes

r/science • u/burtzev • Jun 06 '23

RETRACTED - Medicine Exposure to pesticide components causes recurrent pregnancy loss by increasing placental oxidative stress and apoptosis: a case–control study

182 Upvotes

r/science • u/jmdugan • Apr 13 '20

RETRACTED - Biology SARS-CoV-2 infects T lymphocytes through its spike protein-mediated membrane fusion

145 Upvotes

r/science • u/marketrent • Nov 27 '22

RETRACTED - Biology The oldest known fossil of an army ant, preserved in Baltic amber about 35 million years ago, provides first evidence that now-extinct lineages swarmed Europe in the Eocene epoch

149 Upvotes

r/science • u/icookseagulls • Nov 04 '23

RETRACTED - Anthropology Geo‐archaeological prospecting of Gunung Padang buried prehistoric pyramid in West Java, Indonesia

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

28 Upvotes

r/science • u/reuterrat • Jun 30 '21

RETRACTED - Medicine Experimental Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Content in Inhaled Air With or Without Face Masks in Healthy Children

jamanetwork.com

16 Upvotes

r/science • u/Wagamaga • Oct 17 '22

RETRACTED AND REPLACED - Health Air pollution from factories and vehicles linked to worse outcomes for patients with lung disease. The team found that increasing levels of PM2.5 were linked to more severe disease at diagnosis, faster disease progression as measured by lung function decline and higher likelihood of dying sooner.

120 Upvotes

r/science • u/CPT_JUGGERNAUT • Jun 26 '21

RETRACTED - Health A risk benefit analysis of mRna vaccinations in the Israeli populous.

0 Upvotes

r/science • u/Additional-Two-7312 • Dec 10 '22

RETRACTED - Biology Century-old question on fluid in lungs answered: A new flow modeled in the body could aid in treatment of patients with lung infections and pulmonary edema

104 Upvotes