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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “List of pseudoscience topics”
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The source
Therapeutic touch for healing acute wounds (Pub 3)
Donal P O'Mathuna
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · published July 2014 · cited 2 times by other papers
Retracted Sep 1, 2016
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Where Wikipedia cites it
- List of pseudoscience topics8,565 views a month · open since Nov 5 · editors toldZombie
Case log
- FoundFound on List of pseudoscience topics: the citation is live and nothing near it mentions the retraction.
- ReviewedRead by hand (List of pseudoscience topics). The sentence quotes the review's conclusion directly, and the review was withdrawn by Cochrane over concerns about the data it relied on, so the quote no longer has a valid source.
- Note postedNote posted on the talk page of List of pseudoscience topics. See the note.
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