"AI threatens scientific research with fake papers" |The Saturday Paper | Ivan Oransky | Retraction Watch | buff.ly/4cqF4LI

Regenerative Medicine. It's an amazing pitch. Let's harness your bodies own cells - stem cells no less - to heal what ails you. Worldwide, harvesting cells from one part of your body and injecting them into another is a 35 BILLION dollar industry. But is it, you know, real? (🧵)

LOTS of Chagas disease in Metropolitan Washington DC area!! MedStar Health Inova Quinn Capers, IV @susanjosephmd Holy Cross Health Adventist HealthCare @suburbanhosp are you testing??

Happy 14th birthday, Retraction Watch – and what a year it was retractionwatch.com/2024/08/02/hap…

".Ivan Oransky emphasised that the problem was not just paper mills, but a broader academic culture which pushes researchers to 'publish or perish'." barrons.com/news/flood-of-…

A journal editor wondered if data were “too good to be true.” A BBC Radio segment featuring our Adam Marcus. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

"Why scientist rankings should be ignored." Our Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus in Thanh Nien News thanhnien.vn/vi-sao-khong-n…

Vaccine season is rapidly approaching, so I was intrigued by this article, in JAMA that examined the long-term outcomes of people who suffered post-vaccine vs. post-covid myocarditis. Brief 🧵

9/24 at 7:30 PM | Journalist Lynne Peeples explores how the emerging science of circadian rhythms could impact our sleep, health, and happiness. bit.ly/3T5WVA1

Exclusive: the papers that most heavily cite retracted studies nature.com/articles/d4158…

In July 2023, the European Medicines Agency announced an investigation into reports that GLP-1 receptor agonist weight loss drugs, like #ozempic, might increase the risk of suicide and self-harm. Is this link plausible? New data is just out. Brief 🧵...

Run Spot, run! They're going to eat you!

"Keep the tiger in the cage."

Hello Paris! Come by today if you're around.

My new investigation for @newsfromscience: Did a top NIH official manipulate Alzheimer's/Parkinson’s research for decades? Neuroscientist Eliezer Masliah found to engage in scientific misconduct; 132 of his papers fall under suspicion science.org/content/articl…

Tune into #TWICpodcast tomorrow. I will discuss and agree with this proposal to change an ossified paradigm. It could save a lot of heart muscle. (And we also learn about "incorporation bias")

Glad to see this effort continuing

A day after Retraction Watch contacted the firm for comment about the workplace conditions, MDPI adjusted its performance targets for employees.

Let there be dark: cnn.com/2024/10/25/med…

Biscuit 1, F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE 0 in this battle of man vs cat: medscape.com/viewarticle/be…