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Packet L: Bonus 8

The anesthesiologist Joachim Boldt holds the record for the most number of these events, at 222. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these events, which are tracked by a database and blog run by Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky dedicated to “watching” them.
ANSWER: retractions [accept answers containing word forms of retraction like “getting a paper retracted”; accept RetractionWatch; prompt on scientific fraud or misconduct or answers referring to falsifying or faking data by asking “which prompted what sort of event?”]
[10m] A 2010 paper that found that the bacteria GFAJ-1 (“G-F-A-J-one”) could incorporate this element was controversially retracted in 2025. The tetroxide of this element is a phosphate analogue that inhibits ATP production in glycolysis.
ANSWER: arsenic [or As; accept arsenate]
[10e] Much of the initial response to the GFAJ-1 paper occurred not in journals, but on this social media website under the hashtag “arseniclife.”
ANSWER: Twitter [accept X]
<Georgia Tech B, Other Science> | Packet L - Harvard A, McGill A, Arizona State A, Georgia Tech B, Toronto D, Georgia Tech D

HeardPPBE %M %H %
5111.5794%16%6%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Chicago AIllinois A001010E
Chicago DNorthwestern B001010E
Indiana AIllinois B0101020ME
Indiana CChicago E0000
Northwestern CNorthwestern D001010E
Notre Dame AIllinois C001010E
Notre Dame BIndiana B001010E
Purdue AChicago C001010E
Purdue BChicago B001010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Great LakesMain Site✓512.00100%20%0%
Lower Mid-AtlanticMain Site✓712.86100%29%0%
Lower Mid-AtlanticMain Site✓110.00100%0%0%
MidwestMain Site✓910.0089%11%0%
NortheastMain Site✓512.00100%20%0%
SoutheastMain Site✓613.33100%17%17%
UKMain Site✓1210.0092%8%0%
Upper Mid-AtlanticMain Site✓613.3383%17%33%