I saw some posts about a paper that claimed to have found the presence of viral or vaccine spike protein in the blood of patients with long COVID. I just wrote a critical review of this paper @PubPeer, but here is a thread as well.
/pubpeer.com/publications/4…1. The paper was published in European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences - which published hundreds of paper mill articles, including 110 articles of the Stock Photo Paper Mill and 200 in the "Comb/Lego" Paper Mill:
Oh for fox' sake, @SciReports, this is embarrassing.
For nearly 10 years, I have been reporting image duplications. This should never have passed through your quality control.
You have a quality control, do you?
Same paper, another Figure.
@ImageTwinAI found some issues here.
Nov 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@MattNachtrab Hey Matt, your tweet about "some of the truth" contains some false statements.
First, you say I am an "a known short seller" which is incorrect. I have told you many times that I do not hold any position in $SAVA. Thus, you are deliberately spreading false information.
@MattNachtrab Second, a leader of an #ImageForensics investigation (e.g. Dr. Shafer) SHOULD talk to ImageForensics experts, especially if they are the whistleblower (e.g. me).
What is inappropriate about that?
Jun 1, 2023 • 14 tweets • 8 min read
Next up #SSP2023
Research Integrity: Stories of learning from overcoming mass retractions, systematic manipulation and research misconduct.
Hannah Smith @WileyGlobal
Yael Fitzpatrick @GazelleInDminor@PNASNews
Luigi Longobardi @LuigiLon@IEEEorg
Mike Streeter @WileyGlobal
The panelists all introduce themselves - they now work in research integrity at a publisher, but started in very different careers. It is a relatively new type of career, and often started with a volunteer role in ethics. #SSP2023
After the coffee, I will attend one of the parallel sessions: Charleston Trendspotting: Forecasting the Future of Trust and Transparency.
With Leah Hinds @chsconf and @lisalibrarian and a "Future's Wheel" #SSP2023
(I am a bit nervous about what a Futures Wheel is and the pieces of paper and markers on some of the tables - if this is too interactive or too buzzwordy, I might run to the nearest #introvert corner). #SSP2023
French medical bodies on Sunday called on authorities to punish researcher Didier Raoult for "the largest 'unauthorised' clinical trial ever seen" into the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 france24.com/en/europe/2023…
You can find the preprint here: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
I started a @PubPeer comment thread here: pubpeer.com/publications/4…
and I invite everyone to join the discussion there.
Apr 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
One of these papers is from the Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine and @UnivOfKansas.
Together with earlier retractions from this group of authors, it raises severe concerns about this @NIEHS and Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province-sponsored research.
As pointed out by @bsPyt7dmnBKaebN, this 2020 paper shares several figures with a 2014 and a 2020 paper from two different group of researchers.
Here are Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 from the three papers compared. Blots and plots look identical. pubpeer.com/publications/D…
Apr 25, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Stanford president dodges research misconduct questions
Amid Tessier-Lavigne’s defense, unanswered questions and contradictory statements @tab_delete writes @StanfordDaily
'He has canceled public appearances, demanded retraction of The Daily’s reporting through his lawyers, deactivated the website for his public office hours and declined to respond to dozens of inquiries.'