“Truly extraordinary,” “simply not credible,” “suspiciously sharp:” A STAP stem cell peer review report revealedRetraction Watch readers are of course familiar with the STAP stem cell saga, which was punctuated by tragedy last month when one of the authors of the two now-retracted papers in Nature committed suicide. In June, Science‘s news section reported: Sources in the scientific community confirm that early versions of the STAP work were rejected by Science, Cell, and Nature. Parts of those reviews revi
