How a lab came undone

Original source: When Truth Pays the Disinformation Tax from https://fo-sci.org/

The disinformation tax is the compounding cost of relying on findings that are false but not yet corrected, or corrected but not yet unlearned.

To understand this, we look at former Cornell researcher Brian Wansink, who published hundreds of studies on why we eat the way we do. But his research came under scrutiny, and the flags started — eventually touching 45 of his papers.

Here we track one piece of that tax: the citations his flagged papers kept collecting after a problem was already on the record.

Each vertical line is one of his flagged papers, in the order they were published. Grey and blue ticks are citations — blue when the citation comes from Wansink himself.

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total citations

the tax

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citations after a flag

from within

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self-citations after a flag

PubPeer

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Corrections

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Exp. concern

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Retractions

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Where it lands

The record kept spreading, even after the flags

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total citations to the 45 flagged papers

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of them made after the paper was flagged

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self-citations after the flag — the lab stopped citing itself

Lines are ordered by publication date; a line's colour changes to the flag it received — green PubPeer, orange correction, purple expression of concern, red retraction — and a $ marks papers linked to a funding grant. The vertical scale is stretched across 2012–2022, where most flags fall. Citation ticks and all counters are year-resolution. Sources: Dimensions.ai and the Retraction Watch database. This page reports the public record and alleges no wrongdoing beyond the recorded editorial actions.

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