Retracted Article On Dopaminergic Neurotoxicity Of MDMA
"Severe dopaminergic neurotoxicity in primates after a common recreational dose regimen of MDMA ("ecstasy")'", was a paper by Dr. George Ricaurte which was published in the leading journal Science, and later retracted.
The retraction of the paper led to questions over its publication. It has also been asserted that this questions the peer review process. Many have also argued that the failings in the paper (use of materials other than those specified) could not have been caught by peer review; and that the scientific process did work successfully in the end, in that the article was ultimately retracted.
The paper was published in the 27 September 2002 issue of Science (volume 297, pages 2260-3). The article had been submitted to Science on 29 May 2002 and was accepted for publication on 14 August 2002. Neither the time required for peer review nor the time between acceptance for publication and actual date of publication were unusual.
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