Matthew Schrag
@schrag_matthew
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Neurologist focused on Alzheimer's disease, cerebral amyloid angiopathy and stroke. Principal investigator for SchragLab.
Joined August 2019
Does this look right to you?.Let me take you down a rabbit hole to illustrate how a network of interlacing problems in Alzheimer’s disease research ethics impacts our progress on this disease.
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Yikes.
Super mean of me to screenshot the author's talk (that he gave in China), and show image duplications in the slide that he used. I flagged this book chapter a long time ago and it was "removed" by Elsevier already. But I am working on a talk to a Chinese audience and wants to
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RT @MicrobiomDigest: Expression of Concern by @NatureMedicine for an Alzheimer's disease paper with so many problems that one needs to ask:….
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RT @cpiller: Misconduct investigation at U.S. military university uncovers image duplication - original findings by @Thatsregrettab1 origin….
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Authors affiliated with a federal health sciences university have lost three papers this year for image duplication following an investigation by the institution. And another journal has confirmed …
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RT @LocasaleLab: Academia runs on grant writing, not science. And the longer you stay, the more you forget there’s a difference.
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RT @slavov_n: This rate of validation suggests that affinity reagents such as antibodies should be considered non-specific until proven oth….
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RT @MicrobiomDigest: @weldeiry @RetractionWatch I do not give a fork about your grades, IQ, titles, or citations. Your papers just have a l….
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RT @AJamesMcCarthy: Top: Mercury in front of the sun, captured in 2019 by me. Bottom: The ISS in front of the sun, captured on Sunday by me….
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This paper has been flagged needing correction since 2019-ish?
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RT @cpiller: More than two dozen papers by neural tube researcher come under scrutiny - findings by @MicrobiomDigest via @claulopezneuro h….
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One of the studies received an editorial expression of concern in May, after the journal learned of an institutional review of the alleged problems.
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This doesn’t seem like the right person to lead the NCI.
Apparent NCI director candidate wants ‘open, respectful’ post-publication peer review while promoting anonymous site that calls sleuths a ‘mob’
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RT @cpiller: Apparent NCI director candidate wants ‘open, respectful’ post-publication peer review while promoting anonymous site that call….
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Wafik S. El-Deiry Brown University physician-scientist Wafik El-Deiry has been a longtime critic of the post-publication forum PubPeer, where 75 of his papers have been flagged. For example, in an …
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Congratulations, @cpiller. “Doctored” named one of top 40 books of the year.
Honored that my book "Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's" has been named one of 2025's 40 best so far by The Economist
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RT @cpiller: Honored that my book "Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's" has been named one of 2025's 4….
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RT @DrNancyOlivieri: "You only have a voice if you espouse the popular [scientific] opinion?" .@schrag_matthew nails is: "You get the disti….
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Amyloid-beta plaques (brown) and tau protein tangles (blue). Credit: National Institute on Aging/NIH Investigative journalist Charles Piller’s latest book, Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy i…
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RT @Adrian_H: it's a disgrace that journalists would take this guy at face value and not look into his pubpeer background @erinlschumaker @….
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Oh boy.
An assistant editor at Scientific Reports reaches out to me for further explanation. Are they living under a rock?
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