Sholto David
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@pmurray65.bsky.social @forbetterscience.bsky.social Amazing Videregen, having pissed away €6.8m for 3 trials that never opened, pivoted to new rubbish - a dead thymus gland for anti-aging. From the look of it, the company has been nuked from orbit: www.videregen.com
LMAO 🤡
LMAO 🤡
Could regenerating the thymus boost human longevity?
Videregen gears up for clinical trials of regenerated organs and tissues as company targets longevity and immune-related disease.
longevity.technology
February 16, 2026 at 1:44 PM
@pmurray65.bsky.social @forbetterscience.bsky.social Amazing Videregen, having pissed away €6.8m for 3 trials that never opened, pivoted to new rubbish - a dead thymus gland for anti-aging. From the look of it, the company has been nuked from orbit: www.videregen.com
LMAO 🤡
LMAO 🤡
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Schneider Shorts 13.02.2026 – Prize for Academic Integrity (Europe category)
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Schneider Shorts 13.02.2026 – Prize for Academic Integrity (Europe category)
Schneider Shorts 13.02.2026 – a Finnish nightmare for a Spanish scholar, a Portuguese Vice-Rector in trouble, a cure for cancer from US government, with a role model for women in German medic…
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February 13, 2026 at 6:11 AM
Schneider Shorts 13.02.2026 – Prize for Academic Integrity (Europe category)
forbetterscience.com/2026/02/13/s...
forbetterscience.com/2026/02/13/s...
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I want to be author of a paper about cancer biomarkers.
You're in luck! We're running a 1/2-price special on processed-alloy papers!
What good is that! I'm an oncologist, not a metallurgist.
We'll tie a sign to it that says 'cancer'. Do you want the text or not?
OK then.
pubpeer.com/publications...
You're in luck! We're running a 1/2-price special on processed-alloy papers!
What good is that! I'm an oncologist, not a metallurgist.
We'll tie a sign to it that says 'cancer'. Do you want the text or not?
OK then.
pubpeer.com/publications...
February 9, 2026 at 5:27 AM
I want to be author of a paper about cancer biomarkers.
You're in luck! We're running a 1/2-price special on processed-alloy papers!
What good is that! I'm an oncologist, not a metallurgist.
We'll tie a sign to it that says 'cancer'. Do you want the text or not?
OK then.
pubpeer.com/publications...
You're in luck! We're running a 1/2-price special on processed-alloy papers!
What good is that! I'm an oncologist, not a metallurgist.
We'll tie a sign to it that says 'cancer'. Do you want the text or not?
OK then.
pubpeer.com/publications...
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Woohoo! #SuperBowl flyover over our city.
February 8, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Woohoo! #SuperBowl flyover over our city.
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Please admire what 'Viola sheltonii' found in Discover Oncology, in "Engineering CAR T NK and NKT cell therapies to target cancer stem cells and overcome stem like resistance".
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February 1, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Please admire what 'Viola sheltonii' found in Discover Oncology, in "Engineering CAR T NK and NKT cell therapies to target cancer stem cells and overcome stem like resistance".
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
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I know that @frontiersin.bsky.social are trying hard to be taken seriously.
But addressing the problems in the original figure (left) by a completely new set of panels (that also have problems; right) puts them straight back into predatory journal range.
#ImageForensics
#ScientificPublishing
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But addressing the problems in the original figure (left) by a completely new set of panels (that also have problems; right) puts them straight back into predatory journal range.
#ImageForensics
#ScientificPublishing
/
January 30, 2026 at 10:27 PM
I know that @frontiersin.bsky.social are trying hard to be taken seriously.
But addressing the problems in the original figure (left) by a completely new set of panels (that also have problems; right) puts them straight back into predatory journal range.
#ImageForensics
#ScientificPublishing
/
But addressing the problems in the original figure (left) by a completely new set of panels (that also have problems; right) puts them straight back into predatory journal range.
#ImageForensics
#ScientificPublishing
/
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Student journalists at Stanford the first to break a story that’s long overdue stanforddaily.com/2026/02/03/f...
Former Stanford professor Nathan Wolfe ’92 planned sexual behavior research, described interns with Epstein
The Daily investigated correspondence between virologist Nathan Wolfe ’92 and Epstein in which the two men discussed interns’ attractiveness, “female viagra” and sexual research projects.
stanforddaily.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Student journalists at Stanford the first to break a story that’s long overdue stanforddaily.com/2026/02/03/f...
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Good article by Theresa DeFino capturing my thoughts on how failure to address research integrity failures today accumulates problems for tomorrow. Each scientist or administrator involved in such a mess has autonomy to facilitate or resist that.
Attorney: Dana-Farber’s $15M Settlement Shows Failure of Integrity Oversight, More Suits Coming | JD Supra
Two years after an online sleuth put together a damning collection of papers by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers containing what he suspected...
www.jdsupra.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Good article by Theresa DeFino capturing my thoughts on how failure to address research integrity failures today accumulates problems for tomorrow. Each scientist or administrator involved in such a mess has autonomy to facilitate or resist that.
Figure 5. Sudden quarrelling of spouse due to misuse of wireless sensor technology: doi.org/10.5539/jpl....
January 23, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Figure 5. Sudden quarrelling of spouse due to misuse of wireless sensor technology: doi.org/10.5539/jpl....
Following my blog about former Yale Researcher Wang Min, Nature Communications retracted a paper of his today: forbetterscience.com/2025/04/30/y...
January 21, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Following my blog about former Yale Researcher Wang Min, Nature Communications retracted a paper of his today: forbetterscience.com/2025/04/30/y...
Another retraction today for Sam S Yoon. Still currently Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology at Columbia, having lost many of the papers that came out of his lab to retractions for an epic fraud. Not clear what the consequences were apart from the retractions: forbetterscience.com/2023/11/01/m...
January 20, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Another retraction today for Sam S Yoon. Still currently Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology at Columbia, having lost many of the papers that came out of his lab to retractions for an epic fraud. Not clear what the consequences were apart from the retractions: forbetterscience.com/2023/11/01/m...
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1. I now summarized problems of a paper on ketamine on PubPeer and also contacted the editor after contacting the author who didn't respond.
I also checked some other papers from authors and indeed found another suspicious one quickly. Thoughts? ->
pubpeer.com/publications...
I also checked some other papers from authors and indeed found another suspicious one quickly. Thoughts? ->
pubpeer.com/publications...
February 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
1. I now summarized problems of a paper on ketamine on PubPeer and also contacted the editor after contacting the author who didn't respond.
I also checked some other papers from authors and indeed found another suspicious one quickly. Thoughts? ->
pubpeer.com/publications...
I also checked some other papers from authors and indeed found another suspicious one quickly. Thoughts? ->
pubpeer.com/publications...
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The publishers of Frontiers are very proud of their fraud-detection software and have appointed themselves as "Guardians of Research Integrity". Also, they publish stuff like this.
January 16, 2026 at 8:24 PM
The publishers of Frontiers are very proud of their fraud-detection software and have appointed themselves as "Guardians of Research Integrity". Also, they publish stuff like this.
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Prepare for the most groan-inducing CRO drug trial situation you’ve come across in a loooooong time:
A Clinical Trial Nightmare
www.science.org
January 12, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Prepare for the most groan-inducing CRO drug trial situation you’ve come across in a loooooong time:
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2026 begins…with a resurrection of the myth that COVID vaccines cause “turbo cancers:” A review that tried hard to show the vaccines cause cancer found very little, and used handwaving to speculate. via @gorskon.bsky.social sciencebasedmedicine.org/and-so-2026-... via @sciencebasedmedicine.org
And so 2026 begins…with a resurrection of the myth that COVID vaccines cause “turbo cancers”
I had hoped to let this cup pass, but, after a week and a half, I found that I couldn't. Eminent oncologist and cancer researcher Dr. Wafik El-Deiry is back and doubling down on the unproven claim tha
sciencebasedmedicine.org
January 12, 2026 at 3:15 PM
2026 begins…with a resurrection of the myth that COVID vaccines cause “turbo cancers:” A review that tried hard to show the vaccines cause cancer found very little, and used handwaving to speculate. via @gorskon.bsky.social sciencebasedmedicine.org/and-so-2026-... via @sciencebasedmedicine.org
I have written a blog at ForBetterScience. Scientific Reports appears to be as bad as ever despite promises to change and an "excellent team" forbetterscience.com/2026/01/06/s...
January 6, 2026 at 9:23 AM
I have written a blog at ForBetterScience. Scientific Reports appears to be as bad as ever despite promises to change and an "excellent team" forbetterscience.com/2026/01/06/s...
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December 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025 – Merry Christmas!
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Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025 – Merry Christmas!
Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025- sleuth wins reward in a lawsuit, an Italian cheater can’t stop lying, with retractions for failed and failing science elites, a Nature expert investigation, and U…
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December 19, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025 – Merry Christmas!
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forbetterscience.com/2025/12/19/s...
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The U.S. Department of Justice has reached a $15 million NIH grant fraud settlement with Dana-Farber Cancer Center. This resolves a False Claims Act qui tam complaint that I filed on behalf of @sholtodavid.bsky.social in April 2024, with Gregg Shapiro as my co-counsel.
News & Publications
Eugenie Reich & Gregg Shapiro Announce $15 Million NIH Grant Fraud Settlement (December 2025) Complaint Settlement Agreement Scientific Fraud in the 21st Century (Video Lecture) Sandia Nationa…
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December 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The U.S. Department of Justice has reached a $15 million NIH grant fraud settlement with Dana-Farber Cancer Center. This resolves a False Claims Act qui tam complaint that I filed on behalf of @sholtodavid.bsky.social in April 2024, with Gregg Shapiro as my co-counsel.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Agrees to Pay $15 Million to Settle Fraud Allegations Related to Scientific Research Grants. The relator [Sholto David] will receive $2,625,000 under today’s settlement.
www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/d...
www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/d...
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Agrees to Pay $15 Million to Settle Fraud Allegations Related to Scientific Research Grants
BOSTON – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Dana-Farber) has agreed to pay $15 million to resolve allegations that, between 2014 and 2024, it made materially false statements and certifications relat...
www.justice.gov
December 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Agrees to Pay $15 Million to Settle Fraud Allegations Related to Scientific Research Grants. The relator [Sholto David] will receive $2,625,000 under today’s settlement.
www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/d...
www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/d...
Can't question the figure if it is illegible. Scientific Reports in September 2025. There are ancient clay tablets with more legible text. pubpeer.com/publications...
December 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Can't question the figure if it is illegible. Scientific Reports in September 2025. There are ancient clay tablets with more legible text. pubpeer.com/publications...
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Niche product idea: a "matching pairs" memory game where the tiles are real duplicated images from scientific papers (like this one found by @sholtodavid.bsky.social)
December 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Niche product idea: a "matching pairs" memory game where the tiles are real duplicated images from scientific papers (like this one found by @sholtodavid.bsky.social)
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November 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Even a simple picture of rocks cannot be published in an authentic form in Scientific Reports. Hope the authors are satisfied that the rocks have been made beautiful for the reader 🤷♀️ [Oct 2025]
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November 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Even a simple picture of rocks cannot be published in an authentic form in Scientific Reports. Hope the authors are satisfied that the rocks have been made beautiful for the reader 🤷♀️ [Oct 2025]
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...