Sholto David
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Mycosphaerella arachidis on PubPeer https://t.co/PWsArKDywd Email: [email protected]
Joined January 2019
RT @isnit0: I feel hopeless and frustrated in many ways at the moment, but getting on the Bakerloo line since we forced TfL to act brings m….
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RT @NC_Renic: Academics will be like, “I can’t believe they pay me to read and write” and then not read and write.
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RT @Kasparov63: Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.
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RT @MicrobiomDigest: COPE integrity officer loses 22-year-old paper for image concerns. According to the retraction notice, Puebla agreed….
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Prolific publication of entirely false data should be a publishing industry scandal, but it is so routine I have the impression that people are simply bored by it. Anyway, if you have some time to read the blog post, I think it will be informative.
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Some of these papers are cited in authoritative safety reviews. For example, a European Food Safety Authority scientific opinion on Titanium Dioxide credibly cites three of these papers with fabricated images.
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Springer Nature and others have published dozens of papers by Saudi and Egyptian researchers with entirely fabricated comet assay images. I think the blog should be informative and I will put a link in the first comment:
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I think I could probably stomach the correction if it at least fixed all the apparent errors 😂 See still overlapping image in "corrected" Figure 6:
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I should say that the PubPeer link explains the problem: "Unexpected overlapping areas between images that should show different experimental conditions. I've added the coloured rectangles to show where I mean."
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An assistant editor at Scientific Reports reaches out to me for further explanation. Are they living under a rock?
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Scientific Reports with another mind-expanding figure in 2025. Perhaps these are intentionally blank, and the reader can add their own names? 10.1038/s41598-025-88819-2
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⚡️🚨📷 BREAKING: "45%" of the all-time threads on @SciGuardians website throughout its history till May 18th, 2025, have been started by ONLY 13 accounts! They have been using @SciGuardians, a bogus platform, with absolutely zero accountability! ⚠⚠ 🤡🤡🚨.
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RT @timfarron: For the mover of a bill to present such a huge number of amendments to their *own* bill suggests a serious lack of confidenc….
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RT @LoisMcLatch: Hi @LNER - why is my train sporting the flag of a deeply controversial ideology which supports maiming kids and invading w….
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Another case of Photoshop in cancer research. The manipulations here are quite extensive, so it's clear whoever did it knew they were making stuff up. Authors are senior German researchers.
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The papers are old, raw data unavailable, one can see small differences, some students probably did it, and anyway, conclusions are unaffected.
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