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China's Ministry of Science and Technology issued a statement today on several cases of suspected science misconduct. In all cases, it was concluded that no fraud was committed.Yet, the images
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Several people asked me what the worst journals are to respond to image duplication or other concerns and/or to retract. Here are a couple from my list:(thread) Applied Microbiology and
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Whoa. Jaap van Dissel, Infectious Diseases director at the @rivm (Dutch NIH/CDC), stated yesterday that the high number of COVID-19 infections in nursing homes might have been caused by staff
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Here is what often happens after an institutional investigation where misconduct has been confirmed: Nothing. Current case:The senior author (only common name on 9 papers flagged on @PubPeer, 6 retractions
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Acta Scientific is a predatory publisher that produces a constant stream of crap presented as "scientific papers" after "peer review".Do not publish with them.Let's go over what a predatory publisher
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Five years ago I found three possibly Photoshopped images in a @ScienceMagazine paper by the lab of @RPlasterk Yesterday, the paper got retracted.Here is what happened, and what went wrong
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Science (the field, not the journal) needs to redefine its integrity and quality. Using a sports analogy, do we accept that doping (science misconduct) is fine, or do we take
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