@shino-n.bsky.social
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Interesting finding: A rather odd meta-analysis in which not a single study meets their inclusion criteria, and nearly 100% of the data presented is incorrect.
I have genuinely no idea how the heck you could end up with this (AI hallucinations? Something else?)
pubpeer.com/publications...
I have genuinely no idea how the heck you could end up with this (AI hallucinations? Something else?)
pubpeer.com/publications...
December 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Interesting finding: A rather odd meta-analysis in which not a single study meets their inclusion criteria, and nearly 100% of the data presented is incorrect.
I have genuinely no idea how the heck you could end up with this (AI hallucinations? Something else?)
pubpeer.com/publications...
I have genuinely no idea how the heck you could end up with this (AI hallucinations? Something else?)
pubpeer.com/publications...
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The Medical University of South Carolina Research Integrity Officer and Committee concluded that "human error in regards to organization and record keeping of original images was the cause for this mistake."
How the heck can this be caused by a mistake?
#ThisImageIsFine
#ImageForensics
How the heck can this be caused by a mistake?
#ThisImageIsFine
#ImageForensics
December 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The Medical University of South Carolina Research Integrity Officer and Committee concluded that "human error in regards to organization and record keeping of original images was the cause for this mistake."
How the heck can this be caused by a mistake?
#ThisImageIsFine
#ImageForensics
How the heck can this be caused by a mistake?
#ThisImageIsFine
#ImageForensics
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At the ___ Journal of ___, it's always too late to correct the scientific record.
December 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
At the ___ Journal of ___, it's always too late to correct the scientific record.
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Retraction @plosone.org:
miR-150-5p inhibits hepatoma cell migration and invasion by targeting MMP14
(title follows papermill-structure)
pubpeer.com/publications...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
miR-150-5p inhibits hepatoma cell migration and invasion by targeting MMP14
(title follows papermill-structure)
pubpeer.com/publications...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
December 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Retraction @plosone.org:
miR-150-5p inhibits hepatoma cell migration and invasion by targeting MMP14
(title follows papermill-structure)
pubpeer.com/publications...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
miR-150-5p inhibits hepatoma cell migration and invasion by targeting MMP14
(title follows papermill-structure)
pubpeer.com/publications...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Indeed...
See @lonnibesancon.bsky.social's comment
See @lonnibesancon.bsky.social's comment
PubPeer - Can earlier BCG-Japan and OPV vaccination reduce early infan...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Can earlier BCG-Japan and OPV vaccination reduce early infant mortality? A cluster-randomised trial in Guinea-Bissau (2024)
pubpeer.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Indeed...
See @lonnibesancon.bsky.social's comment
See @lonnibesancon.bsky.social's comment
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"[...] concerns raised were not substantiated and do not affect
the scientific conclusions of the paper. This investigation is now closed [...]"
MDPI does not see need to address data reuse from 5 years prior, representing a different component. Pathetic.
pubpeer.com/publications...
the scientific conclusions of the paper. This investigation is now closed [...]"
MDPI does not see need to address data reuse from 5 years prior, representing a different component. Pathetic.
pubpeer.com/publications...
December 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"[...] concerns raised were not substantiated and do not affect
the scientific conclusions of the paper. This investigation is now closed [...]"
MDPI does not see need to address data reuse from 5 years prior, representing a different component. Pathetic.
pubpeer.com/publications...
the scientific conclusions of the paper. This investigation is now closed [...]"
MDPI does not see need to address data reuse from 5 years prior, representing a different component. Pathetic.
pubpeer.com/publications...
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The U.S. Office of Research Integrity has been relatively quiet in 2025, releasing just two misconduct findings with only two weeks remaining in the year — the fewest the office has released since at least 2006. ORI typically releases an average of about 10 findings a year.
ORI has released just two misconduct findings this year
The U.S. Office of Research Integrity has been relatively quiet in 2025, releasing just two misconduct findings with only two weeks remaining in the year — the fewest the office has released since …
retractionwatch.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The U.S. Office of Research Integrity has been relatively quiet in 2025, releasing just two misconduct findings with only two weeks remaining in the year — the fewest the office has released since at least 2006. ORI typically releases an average of about 10 findings a year.
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New editorial with John Carlisle:
Detecting inconsistencies and fraud in research data: Time for authors to share the data underlying their summary statistics as a matter of course
tl;dr Let's stop doing party tricks
journals.lww.com/anesthesia-a...
Final draft: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Detecting inconsistencies and fraud in research data: Time for authors to share the data underlying their summary statistics as a matter of course
tl;dr Let's stop doing party tricks
journals.lww.com/anesthesia-a...
Final draft: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
December 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
New editorial with John Carlisle:
Detecting inconsistencies and fraud in research data: Time for authors to share the data underlying their summary statistics as a matter of course
tl;dr Let's stop doing party tricks
journals.lww.com/anesthesia-a...
Final draft: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Detecting inconsistencies and fraud in research data: Time for authors to share the data underlying their summary statistics as a matter of course
tl;dr Let's stop doing party tricks
journals.lww.com/anesthesia-a...
Final draft: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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“NIH is in crisis, grants are being terminated, labs are closing….but they found $1.6 million for an unsolicited proposal to study whether we should delay a vaccine we’ve been safely giving for 40 years, in a country where infants are at high risk of infection”
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study, likely to controversial Danish researchers
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“NIH is in crisis, grants are being terminated, labs are closing….but they found $1.6 million for an unsolicited proposal to study whether we should delay a vaccine we’ve been safely giving for 40 years, in a country where infants are at high risk of infection”
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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Dane McCamey, Pro-VC Research UNSW says NO. Well, f*** you and your fraudsters, Dane.
forbetterscience.com/2019/12/02/t...
forbetterscience.com/2019/12/02/t...
December 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Dane McCamey, Pro-VC Research UNSW says NO. Well, f*** you and your fraudsters, Dane.
forbetterscience.com/2019/12/02/t...
forbetterscience.com/2019/12/02/t...
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Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025 – Merry Christmas!
forbetterscience.com/2025/12/19/s...
forbetterscience.com/2025/12/19/s...
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…
forbetterscience.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025 – Merry Christmas!
forbetterscience.com/2025/12/19/s...
forbetterscience.com/2025/12/19/s...
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An interesting PubPeer discussion.
Senior author and Professor at @uqam.ca claims these bands and cells are not similar at all!
#ThisImageIsFine
#ImageForensics
Thanks @kaveh1000.bsky.social for providing the animations.
pubpeer.com/publications...
Senior author and Professor at @uqam.ca claims these bands and cells are not similar at all!
#ThisImageIsFine
#ImageForensics
Thanks @kaveh1000.bsky.social for providing the animations.
pubpeer.com/publications...
December 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
An interesting PubPeer discussion.
Senior author and Professor at @uqam.ca claims these bands and cells are not similar at all!
#ThisImageIsFine
#ImageForensics
Thanks @kaveh1000.bsky.social for providing the animations.
pubpeer.com/publications...
Senior author and Professor at @uqam.ca claims these bands and cells are not similar at all!
#ThisImageIsFine
#ImageForensics
Thanks @kaveh1000.bsky.social for providing the animations.
pubpeer.com/publications...
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Retraction @plosone.org 👏 of a paper by researchers from the School of Dentistry at UCLA.
Senior researcher gave a long explanation @pubpeer.com that did not seem to make much sense.
Journal did not buy it, thankfully.
pubpeer.com/publications...
#ImageForensics #ThisImageIsFine
Senior researcher gave a long explanation @pubpeer.com that did not seem to make much sense.
Journal did not buy it, thankfully.
pubpeer.com/publications...
#ImageForensics #ThisImageIsFine
December 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Retraction @plosone.org 👏 of a paper by researchers from the School of Dentistry at UCLA.
Senior researcher gave a long explanation @pubpeer.com that did not seem to make much sense.
Journal did not buy it, thankfully.
pubpeer.com/publications...
#ImageForensics #ThisImageIsFine
Senior researcher gave a long explanation @pubpeer.com that did not seem to make much sense.
Journal did not buy it, thankfully.
pubpeer.com/publications...
#ImageForensics #ThisImageIsFine
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These are all the 42 papers Google Scholar has found citing "our" paper that we never wrote - who knows how much actual human touch went into them? scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...
scholar.google.com.vn
December 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
These are all the 42 papers Google Scholar has found citing "our" paper that we never wrote - who knows how much actual human touch went into them? scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...
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· MedSky ·
Sen. Rand Paul has demanded Science release confidential information and external private communications about coronaviruses, citing allegations that dangerous research produced the COVID-19 virus.
Sen. Rand Paul has demanded Science release confidential information and external private communications about coronaviruses, citing allegations that dangerous research produced the COVID-19 virus.
U.S. senator asks Science to provide its coronavirus manuscripts, emails
Rand Paul has blasted government science officials and scientists over COVID-19’s origin
www.science.org
December 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
· MedSky ·
Sen. Rand Paul has demanded Science release confidential information and external private communications about coronaviruses, citing allegations that dangerous research produced the COVID-19 virus.
Sen. Rand Paul has demanded Science release confidential information and external private communications about coronaviruses, citing allegations that dangerous research produced the COVID-19 virus.
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14 references were grouped with a single statement, most (if not all) of them are irrelevant. However, there is not pattern from those references. I am wondering what is wrong over there? Any input about it?
December 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
14 references were grouped with a single statement, most (if not all) of them are irrelevant. However, there is not pattern from those references. I am wondering what is wrong over there? Any input about it?
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“Having him on the panel charged with monitoring efforts to improve cancer treatment is a disaster for cancer patients, as he will inject conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and false claims about cancer into the panel’s reports,” @gorskon.bsky.social told me
www.wired.com/story/risch-...
www.wired.com/story/risch-...
New Head of Trump's Cancer Panel Questioned Links Between Vaccines and Cancer
Yale epidemiologist Harvey Risch, who has speculated about a connection between Covid vaccines and “turbo cancer” and promoted ivermectin, says he'll chair the President's Cancer Panel.
www.wired.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“Having him on the panel charged with monitoring efforts to improve cancer treatment is a disaster for cancer patients, as he will inject conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and false claims about cancer into the panel’s reports,” @gorskon.bsky.social told me
www.wired.com/story/risch-...
www.wired.com/story/risch-...
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Photoshop SEM art disguised as science. co-author from Oxford University. Good to know that a lack of integrity can get me a group leader position at the UK's best University! @rdm.ox.ac.uk pubpeer.com/publications...
Arshad et al. 2023 (DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.124741) #ResearchIntegrity
Arshad et al. 2023 (DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.124741) #ResearchIntegrity
August 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Photoshop SEM art disguised as science. co-author from Oxford University. Good to know that a lack of integrity can get me a group leader position at the UK's best University! @rdm.ox.ac.uk pubpeer.com/publications...
Arshad et al. 2023 (DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.124741) #ResearchIntegrity
Arshad et al. 2023 (DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.124741) #ResearchIntegrity
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#ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics
Neurobiology of Aging issues a correction, completely ignoring the serious concerns in Figure 5.
@nba-eic.bsky.social, can you please take a better look at the issues pointed out in this PubPeer thread?
This should be a retraction.
pubpeer.com/publications...
Neurobiology of Aging issues a correction, completely ignoring the serious concerns in Figure 5.
@nba-eic.bsky.social, can you please take a better look at the issues pointed out in this PubPeer thread?
This should be a retraction.
pubpeer.com/publications...
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
#ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics
Neurobiology of Aging issues a correction, completely ignoring the serious concerns in Figure 5.
@nba-eic.bsky.social, can you please take a better look at the issues pointed out in this PubPeer thread?
This should be a retraction.
pubpeer.com/publications...
Neurobiology of Aging issues a correction, completely ignoring the serious concerns in Figure 5.
@nba-eic.bsky.social, can you please take a better look at the issues pointed out in this PubPeer thread?
This should be a retraction.
pubpeer.com/publications...
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One of the authors reviewed his/her own paper👇But why does
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social not mention the name of the #fraud??? Now all authors are suspicious!
t.co/EhPRQ6feR8
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social not mention the name of the #fraud??? Now all authors are suspicious!
t.co/EhPRQ6feR8
December 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
One of the authors reviewed his/her own paper👇But why does
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social not mention the name of the #fraud??? Now all authors are suspicious!
t.co/EhPRQ6feR8
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social not mention the name of the #fraud??? Now all authors are suspicious!
t.co/EhPRQ6feR8
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COPE’s involvement leads to retraction of paper on homeopathy for lung cancer
COPE’s involvement leads to retraction of paper on homeopathy for lung cancer
A journal that last year corrected a paper claiming to show a homeopathic intervention improved quality of life and survival for people with advanced lung cancer has now retracted the article after…
retractionwatch.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
COPE’s involvement leads to retraction of paper on homeopathy for lung cancer
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10.5% of all articles I have notified journals about have been addressed to date. Most articles remain untouched, even after waiting for more than a year.
I have send concerns on 2500+ articles in total.
I have send concerns on 2500+ articles in total.
December 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
10.5% of all articles I have notified journals about have been addressed to date. Most articles remain untouched, even after waiting for more than a year.
I have send concerns on 2500+ articles in total.
I have send concerns on 2500+ articles in total.
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Publishers always tell us that they have recognized the systematic issues w/ problematic papers and now have systems in place to catch them. Yet, in recent years the problem has only become worse. How can you smh publish more bad papers?? (this is data from only my own sleuthing, not representative)
December 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Publishers always tell us that they have recognized the systematic issues w/ problematic papers and now have systems in place to catch them. Yet, in recent years the problem has only become worse. How can you smh publish more bad papers?? (this is data from only my own sleuthing, not representative)
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Corrupt editor & #papermill #fraud Guilherme L Dotto, Federal University of Santa Maria, lost a paper because he edited his own paper! @ElsevierConnect took more than 1 year to retract this BS! Published in the paper mill infected Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
December 12, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Corrupt editor & #papermill #fraud Guilherme L Dotto, Federal University of Santa Maria, lost a paper because he edited his own paper! @ElsevierConnect took more than 1 year to retract this BS! Published in the paper mill infected Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
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FBS wrote about a case with 10+ papers published w/ scientist(s) from Exeter University, UK. The main character is now group leader at Oxford. Flagged by me & others.
2 retractions so far, a few more likely. Some pretty bad papermill-collaborations included:
forbetterscience.com/2025/12/05/s...
2 retractions so far, a few more likely. Some pretty bad papermill-collaborations included:
forbetterscience.com/2025/12/05/s...
Schneider Shorts 5.12.2025 – I write poetry and fiction
Schneider Shorts 5.12.2025 – a young genius in Oxford, a Greek tobacco shill, a Spanish papermiller, retractions for important men and women, including a retracted retraction, glyphosate pape…
forbetterscience.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
FBS wrote about a case with 10+ papers published w/ scientist(s) from Exeter University, UK. The main character is now group leader at Oxford. Flagged by me & others.
2 retractions so far, a few more likely. Some pretty bad papermill-collaborations included:
forbetterscience.com/2025/12/05/s...
2 retractions so far, a few more likely. Some pretty bad papermill-collaborations included:
forbetterscience.com/2025/12/05/s...