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53ème rétractation pour l'IHU La 44ème pour Didier Raoult Absence d'autorisation éthique appropriée et autorisation rétrospective. 09-022 utilisée dans 257 articles. AMU a tenté d'empêcher cette rétractation de toute sa mauvaise foi. En vain. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Anyone can help safeguard science🔎💡 That's the spirit behind COSIG, a brilliant, community-led #OpenScource project that empowers anyone to take part in post-publication peer review, or #Sleuthing Huge congrats to the team behind it🎉 We'll be recommending it widely! #ResearchIntegrity

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Dishonest people everywhere you look. (unlocked article) www.wsj.com/world/europe...

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Good to see this swift RETRACTION: pubpeer.com/publications.... Basically every figure in Zhou et al. 2022 (DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2022.119558) had issues. Glad that Carbohydrate Polymers' EiC made the right call here! Reported to the journal only 6 weeks ago.

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Dr. who? is back in the news and not in a good way. As an actor he might subscribe to the notion the there’s no such thing as bad publicity… but there is. retractionwatch.com/2025/06/24/s...

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Thanks to Liz Tucker for a great conversation on her podcast "What Your GP Doesn't Tell You" about my book "Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's" open.spotify.com/episode/13q1...

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Took Sage Journals only 10 months to retract this paper with apparent reuse of images across papers. 👏 "The authors did not provide an explanation, or provide the raw, unedited images underlying the experiments reported." pubpeer.com/publications... h/t anon Hoya.

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Two websites, one journal. The Journal of Informetrics has been hijacked. This is not just any journal, it's a well-known title published by Elsevier. More journals from reputable publishers are being hijacked since recently. Guess which screenshot belongs to the original journal? HT: Paul Donner

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Nutters.

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NIH-funded research in an MDPI journal... what could go wrong? After 3 years and a lack of raw data for a 2020 paper, apparently everything. Retracted. pubpeer.com/publications...

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Journal @MolTherapy took their time on this, but after 4 years made the right decision to retract. Probably a paper mill product. Once again, despite the 🚨WARNINGS🚨 of SciGuardians and @weldeiry.bsky.social, the Editor in Chief credited the PubPeer post. pubpeer.com/publications...

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Darn it, SciGuardians and @weldeiry.bsky.social, Wiley didn't get your message. Maybe you need more emojis?

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I'm not qualified to rebut the journal's decision to publish a correction here, but it seems like they were compliant rather than rigorous. Dream on: pubpeer.com/publications...

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Another retraction today. Spandidos (publisher) has a history of publishing paper mill kinds of things, but I give them credit for being responsive to clean up issues after they are notified. October 2024, my email, "this is crap." June 2025, their notice, "we agree." ✅

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Thanks to Alexander Heffner for a great discussion on his PBS program, The Open Mind, about my book “Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s” – also available via podcast and to air soon on PBS stations www.pbs.org/video/cures-...

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(1/x) I have been focusing on image integrity for most of last year, but manipulated images are not the only aspect by which "scientists" cheat the system. I have been looking more into citation fraud recently so I thought I would present a case-study to showcase some of the common patterns:

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A recent article on memory-related gene expression has been repeatedly critiqued for a lack of multiple hypothesis correction, which increases the likelihood of false positives. See COSIG's entry on multiple hypothesis correction here: osf.io/csxd5

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Citation issues cost these 20 journals their impact factors this year

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Reported to PLoS ONE on Feb 7, retraction published today. Fast and thorough investigation. 👏 NCI funded research out of Uni of Florida. pubpeer.com/publications...

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“This impatience with ambiguity can be criticized in the phrase: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” ~Carl Sagan

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Took Cell Death & Disease journal about 19 months to retract this. Not the speediest, but not the slowest either. The authors attempted to correct the figures, but apparently the new images had problems too. 😵‍💫 pubpeer.com/publications... h/t Hoya

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Uncovering misconduct among the Alzheimer’s ‘amyloid mafia’ @emilybazar.bsky.social reports about @charlespiller.bsky.social book “Doctored”. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/06...

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Today is Daddy Day's Daddies' Day.

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Officially hooded! Shoutout to Luís Amaral, my PhD advisor and an unrelenting advocate for his students, for a more just world and for a better scientific enterprise.

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Great work by the research integrity folks despite constant derision by people like @weldeiry.bsky.social "The evidence for widespread irreproducibility in biological sciences is weak, promoted by pharma, and entities such as PubPeer...." www.linkedin.com/posts/wafike...

53ème rétractation pour l'IHU La 44ème pour Didier Raoult Absence d'autorisation éthique appropriée et autorisation rétrospective. 09-022 utilisée dans 257 articles. AMU a tenté d'empêcher cette rétractation de toute sa mauvaise foi. En vain. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Anyone can help safeguard science🔎💡 That's the spirit behind COSIG, a brilliant, community-led #OpenScource project that empowers anyone to take part in post-publication peer review, or #Sleuthing Huge congrats to the team behind it🎉 We'll be recommending it widely! #ResearchIntegrity

Dishonest people everywhere you look. (unlocked article) www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Good to see this swift RETRACTION: pubpeer.com/publications.... Basically every figure in Zhou et al. 2022 (DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2022.119558) had issues. Glad that Carbohydrate Polymers' EiC made the right call here! Reported to the journal only 6 weeks ago.

Dr. who? is back in the news and not in a good way. As an actor he might subscribe to the notion the there’s no such thing as bad publicity… but there is. retractionwatch.com/2025/06/24/s...

Thanks to Liz Tucker for a great conversation on her podcast "What Your GP Doesn't Tell You" about my book "Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's" open.spotify.com/episode/13q1...

Took Sage Journals only 10 months to retract this paper with apparent reuse of images across papers. 👏 "The authors did not provide an explanation, or provide the raw, unedited images underlying the experiments reported." pubpeer.com/publications... h/t anon Hoya.

Two websites, one journal. The Journal of Informetrics has been hijacked. This is not just any journal, it's a well-known title published by Elsevier. More journals from reputable publishers are being hijacked since recently. Guess which screenshot belongs to the original journal? HT: Paul Donner

Nutters.

NIH-funded research in an MDPI journal... what could go wrong? After 3 years and a lack of raw data for a 2020 paper, apparently everything. Retracted. pubpeer.com/publications...

Journal @MolTherapy took their time on this, but after 4 years made the right decision to retract. Probably a paper mill product. Once again, despite the 🚨WARNINGS🚨 of SciGuardians and @weldeiry.bsky.social, the Editor in Chief credited the PubPeer post. pubpeer.com/publications...

Darn it, SciGuardians and @weldeiry.bsky.social, Wiley didn't get your message. Maybe you need more emojis?

I'm not qualified to rebut the journal's decision to publish a correction here, but it seems like they were compliant rather than rigorous. Dream on: pubpeer.com/publications...

Another retraction today. Spandidos (publisher) has a history of publishing paper mill kinds of things, but I give them credit for being responsive to clean up issues after they are notified. October 2024, my email, "this is crap." June 2025, their notice, "we agree." ✅

Thanks to Alexander Heffner for a great discussion on his PBS program, The Open Mind, about my book “Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s” – also available via podcast and to air soon on PBS stations www.pbs.org/video/cures-...

(1/x) I have been focusing on image integrity for most of last year, but manipulated images are not the only aspect by which "scientists" cheat the system. I have been looking more into citation fraud recently so I thought I would present a case-study to showcase some of the common patterns:

A recent article on memory-related gene expression has been repeatedly critiqued for a lack of multiple hypothesis correction, which increases the likelihood of false positives. See COSIG's entry on multiple hypothesis correction here: osf.io/csxd5

Citation issues cost these 20 journals their impact factors this year

Reported to PLoS ONE on Feb 7, retraction published today. Fast and thorough investigation. 👏 NCI funded research out of Uni of Florida. pubpeer.com/publications...

“This impatience with ambiguity can be criticized in the phrase: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” ~Carl Sagan

Took Cell Death & Disease journal about 19 months to retract this. Not the speediest, but not the slowest either. The authors attempted to correct the figures, but apparently the new images had problems too. 😵‍💫 pubpeer.com/publications... h/t Hoya

Uncovering misconduct among the Alzheimer’s ‘amyloid mafia’ @emilybazar.bsky.social reports about @charlespiller.bsky.social book “Doctored”. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/06...

Today is Daddy Day's Daddies' Day.

Officially hooded! Shoutout to Luís Amaral, my PhD advisor and an unrelenting advocate for his students, for a more just world and for a better scientific enterprise.

Great work by the research integrity folks despite constant derision by people like @weldeiry.bsky.social "The evidence for widespread irreproducibility in biological sciences is weak, promoted by pharma, and entities such as PubPeer...." www.linkedin.com/posts/wafike...

Someone committed some sort of felony on this plot. pubpeer.com/publications...

Happy Friday, to those who celebrate! forbetterscience.com/2025/06/13/s...