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@NDevito1
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@normmacdonald
You think *that's* bad, I'm an imaginary cat, and even I can get a blue check mark 😸
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Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza starts to address the many many issues in his papers via
@PNASNews
Even after duplication, splicing, obscuring data: "We believe that the overall conclusions of the paper remain valid."
Science is a bloody cult.
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Created by
@bing
. Not trained on any data; just used their website with a vague prompt. Even if journals request original data, I think AI tools will soon make it very hard to detect completely fabricated blots. Journals: be forewarned.
NB: I know you don't really care.
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"Should I delete?"
Saying the quiet part out loud, an assistant
@GenesDev
journal reacts to an anonymous report of concerns in a research paper (accidentally replied to sender).
No wonder
@MicrobiomDigest
gets frustrated at the way journals treat research integrity concerns.
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@BorisBarbour
@schrag_matthew
If only there was a forum where concerns about research papers could be.... oh, look!
The first
@PubPeer
comment on a Lesné paper was July 2013. I noted that in 2019, and Dr. Bik chimed in.
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Me: This looks fake!
Author: No it's real.
Others: It is muy muy fake!
Authors: It is "IMPOSSIBLE to paint, draw etc on these images"
Me: I can do it - see?
Author,
@sciencedirect
and "experts": It was caused by a problem with the camera.
😹😼😿🙀
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An ongoing group project.
The author: "This photo was NOT touched in any way."
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FEB '23 Author: "Moreover other accusations by Bik and her team are so ridiculous they don’t even merit a response."
FEB '24 Journal: "Retracted. Authors have decided that the article should not remain published in its current form."
cc:
@MicrobiomDigest
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Nobel Prize whiner gets a lesson on how to politely reply on PubPeer by one of his coauthors. 👏
cc:
@MicrobiomDigest
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@FrontiersIn
finally retracted
@SabinehazanMD
's fatally flawed IVM study. First brought to my attention by Dr. who? (
@Doctor_I_am_The
), I read her citations, and they didn't support her claims.
@MicrobiomDigest
@SmutClyde
also chimed in. Thanks!
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After seeing *dozens* of these responses
@PubPeer
to the tremendous effort of
@MicrobiomDigest
, the most charitable conclusion is that these groups of Chinese authors are great at science and really really REALLY (really) terrible at uploading images to journals. 🤔
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@DMSabatini
The anon posters
@PubPeer
voluntarily correct mistakes polluting the scientific literature. If the authors and editors did a better job, it wouldn’t be necessary. When you’ve got more than a dozen corrections in process, perhaps a little self reflection is warranted.
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Remember that crazy behavior from Dr. Hazan yesterday? Apparently, she is just getting started. Now she's claiming
@MicrobiomDigest
is in a conspiracy that includes Theranos, FTX, Elsevier and PubPeer?
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Me: Looks fake.
Author: It is quite anticipated that there will be repetitive features... In fact, the image analysis software used for checking manipulation must be trained well to differentiate between manipulation and sample homogeneity.
Me: I used my 👀.
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Oh, look. A sketchy author has discovered
@pubpeer
... and alerted the FBI!? She seems unaware of post publication peer review, or corrections, or retractions. Is Musk really going to be her savior?
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Email from a journal’s managing editor:
“Thank you for flagging this one, we are now signed up to the PubPeer dashboard so we are receiving alerts for these papers now.”
This journal is taking
@PubPeer
reports seriously. 👏
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the corresponding author stated “…we mistakenly used the copy-and-paste tool instead of a color adjustment tool” during image post-processing. 🤔
Posted by
@MicrobiomDigest
, and now retracted.
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Nobel Prize whiner continues to berate research sleuths who have the audacity to find repeated errors in his papers.
#doyouknowwhoiam
?
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@bandidiot4u
@ID10TErrors
@ringo_ring
@athenogenes
FOIA to FBI will not give a response about an active investigation.
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@boehninglab
"The authors apologize for sending in the wrong paper for peer review and present here the paper that we had intended to publish."
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Retraction for papermill paper
@PubPeer
:
Congratulations to
@MicrobiomDigest
@SmutClyde
@mortenoxe
and
@TigerBB8
👏
Covered by
@MicrobiomDigest
And on
@schneiderleonid
’s blog
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Dr. Bik (
@MicrobiomDigest
) sends polite cease and desist request and he ramps up his unprofessional and knowingly inaccurate attacks. He’s not very intelligent.
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Notification from
@PLOSONE
(👍👍) re: paper
@MicrobiomDigest
and I flagged 5 mos ago was retracted and EoC slapped on another , I’ve now flagged 10+ more: same last author, all with similar “errors.”
cc:
@PubPeer
@RetractionWatch
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Eric Chabriere, et al continue to flail around on PubPeer, apparently unable to understand the moderation rules… hey, I sympathize, it took me a long time too. 😺 But his posts are straight out accusations against
@MicrobiomDigest
.
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After chatting with a colleague just now, I just wanted to thank the many scientists and people interested in research integrity that have supported me. Although I'm often cynical, there's a cohort of people that really do care about this stuff... and that's wonderful. 😻
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Author from
@cwru
chides me for asking to see original data, suggesting that I’m under the influence of hallucinations or psychosis. 😼
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Dr. Bik (
@MicrobiomDigest
) spots some anomalies in a HMQC spectrum within a 2006
@ACSPublications
journal, so I tracked down the original source.
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@MohanaBasu
@ThePrintIndia
As one of the persons who posted these concerns on PubPeer, I can assure Dr. Das that my concerns about apparent image manipulation in his published research have nothing to do with politics. As an American, I have no clue about Indian regional politics.
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@Kaju_Nut
@N_Tomassetti
An illustration of the "value" provided by Nature Communications: Duplicate images. Duplicate data.
Note: They will keep the open access fee when the paper is retracted.
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fakety fakety fake fake
Paper has a number of "before and after" images that seem to have been taken at the same time. Cosmetic products seem to be marketed by Mastelli S.r.l., who sponsored this study.
Retraction. Details:
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@FASEBorg
Journal publishes correction with all the wrong reasons (1st author said that there was no manipulation):
1. Everybody did it in the old days.
2. Does not affect conclusions.
3. Image is only representative.
4. Original data missing.
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Here, I try to be polite about fraud flagged by
@MicrobiomDigest
. It’s hard not to swear. Dude has 75(?) 💩 papers
@PubPeer
and tries the “it’s the post docs” excuse at the link below.
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I’m crying crocodile tears.
US universities protest against research fraud transparency rules
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1/4 There are a few things I'd like to say:
1. It's embarrassing that "science" needs media attention before "science" fixes errors or fraud. By definition, that isn't science.
Thankfully
@RetractionWatch
and sites like exist.
Hundreds of similar concerns have been raised by Leonid Schneider and guest writers at , or by other critics such as
@gorskon
,
@AbalkinaAnna
,
@DataColada
,
@deevybee
,
@sTeamTraen
,
@Thatsregrettab1
,
@SmutClyde
etc. Never have I seen such a quick response.
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Oopsies.
Paper contains clear concerns. How does
@NatureMedicine
address issues in old papers? Includes Frédéric Checler as a middle author.
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“Author meltdown on aisle five. Author meltdown on aisle five.”
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@Hindawi
With all due respect, an expression of concern should happen now. An investigation into what went wrong can precede the official retraction.
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Dr. Bik (
@MicrobiomDigest
), the anonymous
@TigerBB8
, and
@SmutClyde
should be acknowledged by name.
Dr. Fang is quoted, but the above people’s work product was directly linked without attribution.
Shame on
@SmritiMallapaty
@NatureNews
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Retraction in
@PLOSONE
.
Reported to journal >8 years ago by
@MicrobiomDigest
. I appreciate them working through the backlog, but 😬.
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1/n This is how our loose association of research integrity "sleuths" work together to find problems.
Today I started looking through Alzheimer's papers published in MDPI journals. Found some with image problems and published my concerns
@PubPeer
.
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Cheshire is in Prague, at an informal research integrity gathering. Fun with friends and colleagues.
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@minisciencegirl
@MicrobiomDigest
You can report the Tweet and YouTube video for targeted harassment. Here it is:
SCIENCE EDITOR FOR FRAUD, BIK THEN TURNED TO TRYING TO HELP DENY LIFE-SAVING TREATMENTS FOR MILLIONS
You will need a shower afterward.
3 pm EST stream, watch and subscribe:
$SAVA
$PFE
$JNJ
$MRNA
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@ZoeZiani
@jamesheathers
I don’t think it is an exaggeration to say that you have been heroic. Thank you for doing the right things and for sharing the story.
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@xufangbai
@MicrobiomDigest
@24_angier
@baltimoresun
For some entertaining original reporting from 3 years ago....
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Here's a more typical editorial decision about a TMC (Ginkgo biloba) paper.
"The Editors have carefully assessed the images in question and do not see any need for concern or correction. The patterns within the tissue were similar, which is not necessarily due to manipulation."
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After (exceedingly polite) onslaught from
@MicrobiomDigest
, author begs for mercy:
“Dr Bik I respect and welcome your comments and dont get angry with me. Regards and thanks.”
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This should be very alarming for
@OlympusLifeSci
! If their equipment can cause photoshop cloning in images,
@MicrobiomDigest
and crew may be finding problem papers that are just manufacturing errors!
[note to Olympus - no one except the journal believes the author]
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Hey
@Hindawi
, is there another email address we should be using for concerns with research papers? Or did you just decide to kill off the ethics thing?
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Reported to journal 2 days ago. Today they informed me that “an Editorial decision has been made to retract the paper.”
Wow, that’s fast.
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Dear French people, one of your inmates has escaped.
Le futur scandale des antibiotiques décrypté!
Nous ne sommes pas en panne d'antibiotiques mais les antibiotiques les plus anciens qui ne coûtent rien (amoxicilline) sont impossibles à trouver car non rentables. L'OMS invente des crises fantasques (une de ses priorités est la…
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First Shaker Mousa retraction... hopefully more to come. Thank you
@DovePress
journal International Journal of Nanomedicine for the quick action. 👏
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.
@MDPIOpenAccess
@Sus_MDPI
helpfully "illustrates" why no author should publish in or review for their journals.
In a paper promoting tourism in Iran, authors from Iran, Hungary, China provide a photo of "Mars astronauts."
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With 22 authors and a supposed peer review, is this an error?
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It took a
@WileyGlobal
journal only 10 months to retract this work of art.
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” ~
@Hindawi
😸
h/t
@SmutClyde
@ImageTwinAI
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Any of my followers know how to take this in a direction where it might be useful for images in research papers?
AI tool can detect Photoshop alterations and produce a heat map of the areas on the subject's face that have been edited.
Paper:
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@Osinttechnical
Repeat
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And I am most serious: Leonid is (in his niche) like
@JulianAssange_
or
@Snowden
. You may not like their tactics, ethics, or views; but you cannot deny that they have had a positive impact on the world by doing what they do. For that, I appreciate him.
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The list of
@DRDO_India
related papers I've posted has grown to 52. Finding some different authors, but lots of repeats. Below I've marked a set of images that seem to appear across 3 papers representing different treatments.
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At least $SAVA supporters are consistent:
When asked for evidence supporting their beliefs, they scream and shout, accuse questioners of misdeeds, and ulterior motives, but what they don’t do is provide evidence supporting their beliefs.
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Is is inappropriate to point a finger also at the reviewers?
Someone used DALL-E to create gobbledygook scientific figures and submitted them to Frontiers Journal. And guess what? The editor published it. LOL
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@MicrobiomDigest
@SciReports
Hello, this is the
@SciReports
CFO 🤑
We have not yet figured out how quality control measure will help maximize our profits. Can you please explain why we would do such a thing?
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A flat broke fraud with a fake PhD tweeting out insults at
@MicrobiomDigest
from behind a block: it’s just sour 🍇🍇
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Journal issued a correction for this mess.
Authors: “We therefore use the data from an independent experiment to replace the published experiment.” (Translation: we are replacing these fakes with better fakes).
But there’s more!
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“Because the manuscript contains non-credible results this journal is retracting the above publication.“ If only journals responded this way more often.
h/t
@MicrobiomDigest
and anon Hoya.
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Apparently
@Jikkyleaks
and
@SabinehazanMD
have pieced together a conspiracy where
@MicrobiomDigest
,
@PubPeer
, me, and the Data Colada guys ganged up with
#bigpharma
to go after Francesca Gino. 😵💫🤪
We are so busted! /s
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Dr. Bik (
@MicrobiomDigest
) spots some anomalies in a HMQC spectrum within a 2006
@ACSPublications
journal, so I tracked down the original source.
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@MicrobiomDigest
@ASMicrobiology
Translation: "We deferred to the institution's desire to make this go away because there's no incentive for us to do anything else."
Oh, I'm sorry - wasn't I supposed to say this out loud? /s
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Another Nobel Prize whiner’s paper has an error, graciously acknowledged (at least by the first author, if not the last).
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“In reply, the authors would like to apologize to Dr. Bik
@MicrobiomDigest
; We forgot which paper we were faking.” /s
Free Dox? Free Tam? 🤷♂️
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Problematic policy change
@jclinicalinvest
. Whistleblowers will be required to disclose conflicts of interest. How can ppl remain anonymous?
Frankly, it shouldn't matter who the reporting person is, or what their motives, just whether they are right.
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Wow.
Reported to the journal May 13.
Journal announced plan to retract May 15.
"We agree that this manuscript and the Figure images have been produced by a paper mill and are grateful to you for highlighting the duplications in the figure images."
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Ugh. Just posted a concern
@PubPeer
of images that seem to run across *4 papers* from multiple journals; not common authorship on all.
I'm thinking a papermill is involved. How 'bout you?
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