retractions
Published correction notices
Retractions are formal withdrawals of statements, claims, or publications.
A newspaper prints a retraction when it publishes something false.
Scientists retract papers when findings prove unreliable or fraudulent.
The word also applies to physical drawing back: the retraction of landing gear, muscle retraction during surgery.
In both senses, something extended is pulled back in.
Act of taking away
- denialRefusal to accept reality
- recantationFormal withdrawal of statement
- disavowalRejection of connection
- reversalComplete change of direction
backpedaling · about-face · disclaimer · apology · admission · takebacks · walking back · unsaying
Fixing of mistakes
- apologyStatement acknowledging wrongdoing
- erratumDocumented publishing mistake
- editor's notePublication's explanatory addition
- newspaperPrinted periodical of current events
headline · misstatement · falsification · defamation · libel · clarification · admission · withdrawal
Pressed pulp for writing
- journalRecord of daily events
- plagiarismUnattributed use of others' work
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
- peer reviewExpert evaluation before publication
misconduct · authorship · citation · research · Lancet · Nature · scientific · ethics
Sworn written statement
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- sworn statementLegally binding written testimony
- witnessOne who attests
- depositionFormal testimony under oath
court · confession · recantation · perjury · coercion · false confession · evidence · trial
Contractile body tissue
- uterineOf the womb
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- childbirthInfant's emergence from womb
- foreskinPenile glans covering
gums · tissue · physiological · involuntary · pulling back · withdrawal · tongue · jaw
withdrawal
Act of taking away
- denialRefusal to accept reality
- recantationFormal withdrawal of statement
- disavowalRejection of connection
reversal · backpedaling · about-face · disclaimer · apology · admission · takebacks · walking back · unsaying · renunciation
correction
Fixing of mistakes
- apologyStatement acknowledging wrongdoing
- erratumDocumented publishing mistake
- editor's notePublication's explanatory addition
newspaper · headline · misstatement · falsification · defamation · libel · clarification · admission · withdrawal · press
paper
Pressed pulp for writing
- journalRecord of daily events
- plagiarismUnattributed use of others' work
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
peer review · misconduct · authorship · citation · research · Lancet · Nature · scientific · ethics · reproducibility
affidavit
Sworn written statement
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- sworn statementLegally binding written testimony
- witnessOne who attests
deposition · court · confession · recantation · perjury · coercion · false confession · evidence · trial · admission
muscle
Contractile body tissue
- uterineOf the womb
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- childbirthInfant's emergence from womb
foreskin · gums · tissue · physiological · involuntary · pulling back · withdrawal · tongue · jaw · surgical
- breathingbreathing, inhalation, breath, exhalation, breathe
- apology-relatedapology letters, mea culpa, confessions, remorse, contrition
- media ethicsjournalism ethics, media ethics, media bias, journalistic ethics, journalistic integrity
- scientific publishingjournal articles, research papers, submissions, abstracts, citations
- neonatal lungsrespiratory distress, surfactant, preterm birth, premature infant, preemies
- journalsjournals, journal, diary, diaries, personal diaries
retractionsconfirmations
Acts of proving true
affirmations · assertions · verifications · validations · declarations
retractionsextensions
Additions that lengthen
protrusions · expansions · projections · extrusions · elongations
retractionspublications
Works issued to readers
releases · issuances · printings · submissions · postings