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Ellie Kincaid

Editor
Retraction Watch

Ellie Kincaid is an editor at Retraction Watch. Her work has appeared in STATThe Wall Street JournalForbesWebMD and Medscape. She has a B.A. in English from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.A. in journalism from New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program.

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