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A paper about a man with a heart in his abdomen was plagiarized from an April Fool’s joke. Now, it and five other papers by the same authors have been retracted.

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Neurologist Paul McCrory Resigns Amid Plagiarism Allegations

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Journals’ Plagiarism Detectors May Flag Papers in Error

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