youtube.com/shorts/YFuQMHW… Peter O’Toole, all time great in many respects.

The more interesting thing is the name of other places here in Indiana, including: Antiville, Massacre, Popcorn, Hangman Crossing, etc. Not mentioned, but even better known: French Lick and Santa Claus. wkdq.com/lakeside-india…

How do you spot the real gem (#discovery) in the shiny mountain of “high impact” papers covered by news? Hint: don’t look at headlines. Papers that make instant news do so based on the enormous influence of PR departments in powerful #universities. It has little to do with

Committee finds "gross negligence" in work by former German university president. spiegel.de/panorama/bildu…

Funny how an illustration of the abject failure of classic epidemiology to identify causality - shared all day by MDs 🤪🤪

The Romanian Yogi Berra

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The mere fact that this is possible is outrageous. An article every three days? Even if most are coauthorships, it’s still unacceptable. Unfortunately, the academic system encourages or implicitly abets such pseudoscience rather than root it out.

For anyone who has ever performed western blots, the patterns of p240/244 S6 total S6 bands are very hard to reconcile. While we can pinpoint duplications with good accuracy, there is much more dubious science that trained human eye can spot. But who has the time and the

This is the core of the problem in today’s academia: who has the time, not to mention the incentive, to pay attention to detail?

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12… Dr. Guillotin late in his life (early 1800’s) headed the (Jennerian) #smallpox vaccination committee in France.

pubpeer.org/publications/9… The authors should explain how this is “inadvertent”… The editors Cell Press should NOT simply accept such corrections. Cheshire Elisabeth Bik Spotting Prof Jennifer Byrne 🧬 Publishing with Integrity

Mircea Ivan Cell Press Cheshire Elisabeth Bik Prof Jennifer Byrne 🧬 Publishing with Integrity Something like this does not happen by accident...

pubpeer.org/publications/0… The fact that this mess ended up being “fixed” with a “correction” is beyond scandalous. I wonder if any paper E. Masliah was part of has anything to do with reality (talking about the guy who occupied one of the top NIH positions).

Important, if painful, lessons .

Holden Culotta Having spent nine years as a full-time deputy editor JAMA, I can attest to the fact that there is a great deal of group think in academic research and especially in journal publishing. Journals have to make money and they also have to attract authors so they may shy away from

And you can find that information here: godaddy.com/whois/results.… So, I believe that this ridiculous @sciguardians is not only a ruse, but is using scammy tools. I caution against registering with or visiting their site.

Sounds like a good question. However, unless you use cheap materials, financing and executing these type of buildings would be incompatible with our way of living. On many levels. Think a bit about the workers who made these possible, the materials used, the amount of time it

Reading “Doctored” Charles Piller , one cannot but ask the obvious question: why are academics like Berislav Zlokovic, Sylvain Lesne, Karen Ashe, Steven Arnold, Eliezer Masliah, etc, etc, nor held accountable by the entire community of #Alzheimer’s Disease patients? They used untold

"The world of scientific journals on the verge of suffocation." lemonde.fr/sciences/artic…