Michael Smith opined:

> Does this display a weakness of on-line journals?

I think not.  I believe that _Proteomics_, although certainly not one of 
the journals I'm most familiar with, is not online-only, but a mainstream 
(Wiley Interscience) print edition journal, which is also available on-
line. It just happens that they publish some of their work on-line in 
advance of the print edition, as a number of journals do. In this case, 
it allowed them to yank it with ease. 

And David Epstein went:

> I hereby offer a million zillion dollars to anyone who can find me a
> copy of the full text.  It's been yanked from the journal's website,
> and I don't see it archived anywhere on the Web.  And it seems like
> such a KEEPER!

Just my luck.  I could really use a million zillion dollars, and I could 
have had it. I came across this scandal before retraction but only 
decided to post about it after I came across the second example of less-
than-sterling reviewing. By then this one had been snatched back.  I had 
accessed the paper in full-text but decided it wasn't worth downloading. 
All I can say is that it was complicated, and not really very 
interesting. But note that it was retracted because of plagiarism and not 
because of God. 

David: Why not try writing to the authors? Their addresses are given on 
the retraction. 

Stephen
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