Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologistA nice #ImageForensics for those who are still behind a screen. Can you spot a problem - or two - here?
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Retraction @plosone.org@bsky.brid.gy 👏 of a paper by researchers from the School of Dentistry at UCLA.
Senior researcher gave a long explanation @pubpeer.com@bsky.brid.gy that did not seem to make much sense.
Journal did not buy it, thankfully.
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An interesting PubPeer discussion.
Senior author and Professor at @uqam.ca@bsky.brid.gy claims these bands and cells are not similar at all!
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Thanks @kaveh1000.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy for providing the animations.
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Spot the overlapping panels!
Three time points, four treatments, but are all 12 panels from different animals?
You tell me!
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?
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An ugly "stealth correction" at @tandfresearch.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy's Hum Vaccin Immunother of a paper from authors at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda.
They just removed the overlapping image panels 😱
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Can you spot some unexpected duplications?
A through D are four differently treated rats.
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Can you spot something unexpected?
Hint: find the overlapping panels
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Neurobiology of Aging issues a correction, completely ignoring the serious concerns in Figure 5.
@nba-eic.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy, can you please take a better look at the issues pointed out in this PubPeer thread?
This should be a retraction.
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I often wonder how grown-up people, full professors even, can make such statements with such confidence, while the evidence appears to be staring them in the face.
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