Larval perch that has ingested microplastic particlesOONA LÖNNSTEDT
Update (December 21, 2017): Science today posted an addendum to its retraction of the paper by Oona Lönnstedt and Peter Eklöv following the completion of a University of Uppsala investigation. That addendum noted that the investigation found both researchers “violated the regulations on ethical approval for animal experimentation; and that Lönnstedt fabricated experimental results reported in the paper.”
“I take full responsibility for the [issues] with the ethical permit. We have looked at our routines now, and it should not happen again,” Eklöv told Science in an interview earlier this month, after the university investigation was released. “But most of all I'm very disappointed by my colleague—to find out that she actually did fabricate data, which is very serious. This is a person I very ...
