RETRACTED FOR THE SECOND TIME: phony study on "biofield energy" treatment neurocritic.blogspot.com/2026/03/retr...
An update on the saga of a supernatural intervention published in peer-reviewed scientific journals cc: @retractionwatch.com
“The chronic ongoing problem, for nearly two decades, is that the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis proponents withhold the evidence they claim to have. When independent scientists ask to see it — in the form of materials, for example — we are attacked for ‘suggesting fraud.’”: @boslough.bsky.social
@springernature.com Nature Medicine, be on the lookout… your peer review system is broken.
“Pressure” was an autocomplete error, but perhaps funny.
“The situation remains fluid.”
🎤-drop
I do not think I have ever seen this in a property description before lmao
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
I continue slowly working through one volume of AJCR (w/an Associate Editor-in-Chief in Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD). So much crap.
This one paper was so bad that I gave up before finishing (I’m only flagging images identified by ImageTwin for reasons).
Originally flagged by @elisabethbik.bsky.social 6(!) years ago, additional issues and emails finally led to a retraction in Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids (Cell Pressure). pubpeer.com/publications...
Swedish fraudsters are funny.
I was delighted to learn that Elisabeth Bik (@elisabethbik.bsky.social) finds inspiration in my work. Thank you, Elisabeth, for the nomination. I truly appreciate your support!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
but are they talking?
Someone (more patient than me) should go look at the citations to see if this materially changes the results of the citing paper. In a perfect world, the journal would do it.
I looked at one and the authors clearly didn’t know the case study was fiction.
Here's a nice indictment of the modern publishing system and a solution.
But surely the next generation will not have to find such limiting workarounds?
Not quite 2 years for a Wiley journal, Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, to retract a couple of these papers.
pubpeer.com/publications...
Yeah yeah, it's Friday somewhere. 😺
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TFW the clarifying "how to get out of the building" sign is now and forever a curling meme.
In a move one research ethics expert called “odd,” a university asked one of its professors to attend a remedial integrity course — despite their “significant concerns” the training would have any impact following findings of misconduct.
That’s really the only way to get value out of your car insurance too.
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Remember Larry, the #scholastic #cat?
2 y ago, but still shows how easy it is to fake #papers & #citations.
What can we do?
Maybe simply value #quality over (easily measurable) #quantity when assessing #scientists. It's more work, but surely pays.
#PaperMill #AI #ResearchIntegrity #FakeScience
One can assume that the "originals" might actually confirm the original concerns. Nice detective work.
Remarkable. And then they didn’t respond to the journal request for raw data?
Three panels from a scientific paper, showing horizontal strips, each with a blue fluorescent, sausage-shaped core surrounded by green fluorescent clouds, and a black background. The labels suggest three different experiment, but I added orange boxes to show that the middle and bottom panel overlap with a mirroring.
A good retraction by @frontiersin.bsky.social of Neurotrope/Synaptogenix / Thomas Jefferson U paper.
The $SNPX president/CSO called me a "sir", claimed figures were just 'illustrative examples', the senior author then dropped 200 hard-to-open, un-annotated 'lsm' files - fun times.
#ImageForensics
Congratulations are in store for Dr. El-Deiry’s ascension to the sole Editors-(sic)-in-Chief at Oncotarget.
Andrei V. Gudkov of Roswell Park is no longer sharing in that honor.
Are #openaccess fees that some journals charge authors too high? The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the world’s largest research institution, reportedly thinks so and plans to stop funding some, a move that could shake up #scientificpublishing. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
New research integrity technical term coined by @elisabethbik.bsky.social: “Paper mill hairball.”, e.g., “Where every paper that overlaps with another paper will lead to more papers with overlaps.” pubpeer.com/publications... 😸
