Thanks for sharing it is interesting indeed.
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Thanks for sharing it is interesting indeed.
Cool, useful, project.
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Schneider Shorts 6.03.2026 – Not identical and also not adjusted by sequencing
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I used to write letters to the editor about meta-analysis papers but gave up out of pure frustration. The final straw was having my letter rejected after it was "peer reviewed" by the authors I was criticising. I decided to write on PubPeer instead, although there is still a lack of visibility.
Looks legit to me: doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Genus: Man or Female? Alzheimer's improved in just four weeks with plant extract 🙄
Maybe investigate how the paper got published.
This one might be better, also 2025, from Springer Nature: 10.1186/s11671-025-04192-z
Another wonderful diagram of a bacterial cell with mitochondria, this one in Frontiers in Microbology (10.3389/fmicb.2023.1194292). Reminder: Bacteria are prokaryotes, they do not have mitochondria...
@pmurray65.bsky.social @forbetterscience.bsky.social Amazing Videregen, having pissed away €6.8m for 3 trials that never opened, pivoted to new rubbish - a dead thymus gland for anti-aging. From the look of it, the company has been nuked from orbit: www.videregen.com
LMAO 🤡
Schneider Shorts 13.02.2026 – Prize for Academic Integrity (Europe category)
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I want to be author of a paper about cancer biomarkers.
You're in luck! We're running a 1/2-price special on processed-alloy papers!
What good is that! I'm an oncologist, not a metallurgist.
We'll tie a sign to it that says 'cancer'. Do you want the text or not?
OK then.
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Woohoo! #SuperBowl flyover over our city.
Please admire what 'Viola sheltonii' found in Discover Oncology, in "Engineering CAR T NK and NKT cell therapies to target cancer stem cells and overcome stem like resistance".
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Left: Original Figure 10, containing panels from 2 groups (A and B, in 2 columns) and 6 different organs (in 6 rows, heart, liver, spleen, stomach, lung, kidney). I have added colored boxes to highlight that several panels in the original appear to contain duplicated (photoshopped?) areas. Right: Figure in the same orientation as on the left, but all panels now look different. Still, two sets overlap
I know that @frontiersin.bsky.social are trying hard to be taken seriously.
But addressing the problems in the original figure (left) by a completely new set of panels (that also have problems; right) puts them straight back into predatory journal range.
#ImageForensics
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For once, I was writing on PubPeer about my own subject and still ignored 😉 The kit is the wrong choice for detecting autoantibodies. The data presented with that ELISA is meaningless. Tells you something about the competency of those involved.
Student journalists at Stanford the first to break a story that’s long overdue stanforddaily.com/2026/02/03/f...
Good article by Theresa DeFino capturing my thoughts on how failure to address research integrity failures today accumulates problems for tomorrow. Each scientist or administrator involved in such a mess has autonomy to facilitate or resist that.
Yes I've had several silly discussions along these lines including one letter that was sent for "peer review" by the author that I was criticising (my letter was rejected). I no longer consider these activities productive and write on PubPeer 🤷
Research!
Figure 5. Sudden quarrelling of spouse due to misuse of wireless sensor technology: doi.org/10.5539/jpl....
Following my blog about former Yale Researcher Wang Min, Nature Communications retracted a paper of his today: forbetterscience.com/2025/04/30/y...
Another retraction today for Sam S Yoon. Still currently Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology at Columbia, having lost many of the papers that came out of his lab to retractions for an epic fraud. Not clear what the consequences were apart from the retractions: forbetterscience.com/2023/11/01/m...
1. I now summarized problems of a paper on ketamine on PubPeer and also contacted the editor after contacting the author who didn't respond.
I also checked some other papers from authors and indeed found another suspicious one quickly. Thoughts? ->
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The publishers of Frontiers are very proud of their fraud-detection software and have appointed themselves as "Guardians of Research Integrity". Also, they publish stuff like this.
Prepare for the most groan-inducing CRO drug trial situation you’ve come across in a loooooong time:
2026 begins…with a resurrection of the myth that COVID vaccines cause “turbo cancers:” A review that tried hard to show the vaccines cause cancer found very little, and used handwaving to speculate. via @gorskon.bsky.social sciencebasedmedicine.org/and-so-2026-... via @sciencebasedmedicine.org
I have written a blog at ForBetterScience. Scientific Reports appears to be as bad as ever despite promises to change and an "excellent team" forbetterscience.com/2026/01/06/s...
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Merry $mas! pubpeer.com/publications...
Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025 – Merry Christmas!
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