The author reflects on the retracted article "VEGF-Targeted Therapy in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma" by Brian Rini in the March 2005 issue of "The Oncologist," due to plagiarism. He argues that the contents of the article was 75 percent similar to the paper in the February 2005 issue of "British Journal of Urology International (BJU)." He also suggests that the incident will be a reminder to respect authorship.