British science journal Nature said Thursday it had failed to learn from a past instance of research misconduct, a day after it retracted two stem cell papers that were widely condemned as substandard.
It said it accepted the papers on “stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency,” or STAP for short, on the reputation of their Japanese authors.
“For scientists worldwide it has triggered painful memories of a decade-old scandal,” the journal said.
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