PRESCRIPTION FOR CONTROVERSY: Firms offering a fast track to publication target foreign applicants to U.S. medical residency programs
“It’s the same as paper mills that sell authorship.”
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🧬😵‍💫 ‘deoxyribonucleic corrosive (DNA)’ • ‘DNA fix’ • ‘X-beam diffraction’ • ‘watery arrangement’ ... I reported this Springer Nature article with 2 years ago. No action. Still online and sold 39,95 €... I'm speechless 😞 This is outrageous! 🤬 pubpeer.com/publications/E…

Mircea Ivan This is pretty damning… and 10 years later, there’s been no change.

It’s outrageous that people who have a long history of fraudulent papers have not suffered ANY real consequences. Worse, they keep having open doors to publish in “big”journals, receive enormous salaries invited to give keynote talks, can still get public funding. THIS MUST STOP!

First look, 'meh another boring dup'; Second look 'Hang on, this will entertain us for a bit'. This is a 'you got the idea marking', not an exhaustive one. pubmed 28497360

This is strange. The WCRI, the Workers Compensation Research Institute, has blocked me.
Perhaps because there is also the World Conference on Research Integrity Foundation? WCRIFoundation
But I have never tweeted to them (other than a reply to someone who had tagged them).

Let's make it in Elisabeth Bik style. This paper already corrected for fake images also has issues with XRD. Anyone who find problems, welcome to post to pubpeer (not going to do it myself). Level- super easy. pubpeer.com/publications/4…

Thank you, Rubens do Monte, for inviting me to give a webinar for the Instituto René Rachou / Fiocruz Minas earlier today.
We had a wonderful discussion with lots of questions from the graduate students!

The John Maddox Prize is now open for nominations. As a former (successful) nominator (of Elisabeth Bik), please reach out if you know researchers who deserve recognition for their efforts in supporting scientific evidence in the public sphere. nature.com/immersive/madd…

'Whaaaa.... You blocked me?'

I've decided to start blocking people. Which, believe it or not, is kinda new for me.

It is hilarious how upset they get. (I hear this from other accts which I then also block.)

They lie about me. Question my integrity. Threaten, harass, and…

I was included on the #TIME100HEALTH list of 100 individuals who most influenced global health this year. time.com/6968406/sholto…

Elisabeth Bik, expert in scientific integrity: ‘We need to slow down scientific publishing’ english.elpais.com/science-tech/2… by Beatriz Olaizola via El País English Edition

Elisabeth Bik: 'There are smart fraudsters who will be very thankful for AI that can help them generate even more fake…

#Plagiarism ? Science community: My chapter in the first edition of an edited book (2017) was copied verbatim (minus 2 new sentences) in the second edition (2023) without my knowledge, but now with a new author attributed to it. Thoughts?

#ImageForensics - can you find at least three sets of repeating areas in this image of a PVC surface?

'The Authors were not able to provide documentation confirming that the patients who provided the samples used in this study gave consent for these samples to be used for research purposes'

Retraction number 14 for IHU Méditerranée Infection

“Green Biomaterials, the only journal where 100% of papers are on @[email protected]”

Behind a paywall for me, but looks of interest, if you have access.
Academic Fraud Is a Waste of Taxpayer Dollars
More transparency is needed to hold researchers to account.

The academic sleuth facing death threats and ingratitude: Lonni Besançon 🇫🇷 🇸🇪
'By examining scientific articles after they are published and exposing shortcomings, he has made himself an enemy of both researchers and publishers.'
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