The anesthesiologist Joachim Boldt holds the record for the most number of these events, at 222. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these events, which are tracked by a database and blog run by Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky dedicated to “watching” them.
ANSWER: retractions [accept answers containing word forms of retraction like “getting a paper retracted”; accept RetractionWatch; prompt on scientific fraud or misconduct or answers referring to falsifying or faking data by asking “which prompted what sort of event?”]
[10m] A 2010 paper that found that the bacteria GFAJ-1 (“G-F-A-J-one”) could incorporate this element was controversially retracted in 2025. The tetroxide of this element is a phosphate analogue that inhibits ATP production in glycolysis.
ANSWER: arsenic [or As; accept arsenate]
[10e] Much of the initial response to the GFAJ-1 paper occurred not in journals, but on this social media website under the hashtag “arseniclife.”
ANSWER: Twitter [accept X]
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