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
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | 11.57 | 94% | 16% | 6% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dartmouth A | Brown | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Dartmouth B | Bowdoin B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| MIT | Harvard B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Southern Connecticut State | Bowdoin A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Yale | Brandeis B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 7 | 12.86 | 100% | 29% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 9 | 10.00 | 89% | 11% | 0% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 17% | 17% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 12 | 10.00 | 92% | 8% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 13.33 | 83% | 17% | 33% |