Publication history of the Mawson study: a 2016 Frontiers in Public Health version was provisionally accepted, never formally published, and withdrawn within days after public outcry; the same study then appeared in J Transl Sci (2017) and was retracted there as well (May 2017).
The Mawson study's earlier Frontiers in Public Health version was 'provisionally accepted but not published' and withdrawn within a week amid outcry; it was then republished in the Journal of Translational Science and retracted again in May 2017.
Publication history of the Mawson study: a 2016 Frontiers in Public Health version was provisionally accepted, never formally published, and withdrawn within days after public outcry; the same study then appeared in J Transl Sci (2017) and was retracted there as well (May 2017). Hard Rule 6: the study the book cites was withdrawn before publication at Frontiers and retracted after publication at J Transl Sci.