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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “When Contact Changes Minds”
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The source
When Contact Changes Minds: An Experiment on Transmission of Support for Gay Equality
Michael J LaCour, Donald P Green
Science · published December 2014 · cited 66 times by other papers
Retracted Jun 5, 2015
Ethical Violations by AuthorFalsification/Fabrication of DataManipulation of Results
Where Wikipedia cites it
- When Contact Changes Minds397 views a month · open since Nov 5Zombie
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Case log
- FoundFound on When Contact Changes Minds: the citation is live and nothing near it mentions the retraction.
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