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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “Dewan Singh Bhakuni”

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The source

Identification of Autoantibodies against Transthyretin for the Screening and Diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Saurabh Sharma, Sreejoyee Ghosh, Lalit Kumar Singh, Ashish Sarkar et al.
PLoS One · published April 2014 · cited 19 times by other papers

Retracted Oct 11, 2018

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Where Wikipedia cites it

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