Microbiology

One thumbnail resembling a Magic-Eye 3D photo led to finding a set of 12 @MDAndersonNews #Pathology papers with #ImageForensics concerns.
My new blogpost at ScienceIntegrityDigest.https://t.co/d9WkgfLITf pic.twitter.com/s0pDzyPriq

— Elisabeth Bik (@MicrobiomDigest) June 28, 2023

USG at last is putting serious resources into new Covid vaccine research. But there's a lot of confusion and uncertainty as it gets underway. Ben Mueller, Noah Weiland, and I report here: https://t.co/i0MsSnD5NV

— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer) June 26, 2023

Harvard Scholar Who Studies Honesty Is Accused of Fabricating Findings
Questions about a widely cited paper are the latest to be raised about methods used in behavioral research.#MyGiftArticlehttps://t.co/pGTTckdpEW

— Elisabeth Bik (@MicrobiomDigest) June 26, 2023

"This post describes a set of over 20 papers with mostly image problems from the Department of Pharmacology at the School of Medicine of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China" by @MicrobiomDigest https://t.co/ou0aMrygXz

— Publishing with Integrity (@fake_journals) June 25, 2023

At @MDAndersonNews it is totally fine to publish case reports without patient consent, to photoshop patient's tissues - and to have your papers peer-reviewed by your collaborators, who might be willing to look the other way.
This is a very, very fishy study at @FrontiersIn. https://t.co/hr26Y1SR8f

— Elisabeth Bik (@MicrobiomDigest) June 25, 2023