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Comment author: [deleted] 03 October 2012 07:51:54PM 1 point [-]

How am I supposed to know where the graphs come from? The paper is conveniently behind a paywall. The abstract does say something about

2,047 biomedical and life-science research articles indexed by PubMed as retracted on May 3, 2012

but this isn't the whole story, since the data on the graph goes back to 1975.