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Strange case of fabricated allegations of image manipulation in biomedical research. PubPeer has now removed them after Retraction Watch alerted them to my findings.
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Fabricated allegations of image manipulation baffle expert
The fabricated claim about image manipulation raises a question: Why bother? Mike Rossner had never seen anything like it. At first, the anonymous comment on PubPeer, which claimed a lane of a west…
retractionwatch.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:16 PM
mikerossner.bsky.social
Some thoughts from Dr. Casaba Szabo about my guest post on Retraction Watch regarding replication studies. My response is at the bottom. retractionwatch.com/2025/06/25/g...
Guest post: In defense of direct replication studies (if they even need defending)
Editor’s note: This guest post by Csaba Szabo is a response to a June 3 post by Mike Rossner on replication studies. We sent a draft to Rossner in advance; find his response below. Csaba Szabo The …
retractionwatch.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
A refreshingly fast and courteous response by authors after image problems were found in their @NatureCellBio paper. Thank you, Dr. Cleveland & Fachinetti, for quickly addressing the issues.
That is how it is done!
You can read the whole exchange here:
pubpeer.com/publications...
Screenshot from a reply on PubPeer. "Dear Dr. Bik, We thank you for this important notification about these possible duplication issues with two images in our manuscript. We retrieved the primary data, examined every panel in the initial and final assembled versions of every figure that was published in our manuscript, and have identified that there were indeed two figure construction errors, with incorrect images contained in the published Figure S2a and Figure 4b".
June 24, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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NIH-funded replication studies are not the answer to the reproducibility crisis in pre-clinical research, says Mike Rossner.
Guest post: NIH-funded replication studies are not the answer to the reproducibility crisis in pre-clinical research
President Trump recently issued an executive order calling for improvement in the reproducibility of scientific research and asking federal agencies to propose how they will make that happen. I imagin...
retractionwatch.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM