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Morty
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Grumpy scientist
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Today I'm posting a new video! This case report includes AI generated images. Despite being apparently fabricated with OpenAI tools this paper is already suggested by ChatGPT as evidence to be considered for off label treatment of an autoimmune disease. youtu.be/G9KHwXNIJyk
October 4, 2026 at 11:10 AM
One day, groundbreaking results; the next, a retraction for misconduct. Reality check. They forgot to mention the fakery: pubpeer.com/publications... @pnas.org @cniostopcancer.bsky.social
October 3, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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I said this years ago. It's been obvious. It remains obvious. It's a tragedy for our country.
September 14, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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A new video on my YouTube Channel - This one is about a 2013 Nature Neuroscience paper with extensive image manipulation.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R6V...
Image Fraud in Nature Neuroscience
YouTube video by Sholto David
www.youtube.com
September 13, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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Another retraction because the highly corrupt former EIC of the @elsevierconnect.bsky.social journal Science of the Total Environment edited papers for his friends! 👇
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
September 5, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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The first retraction for the #papermill #fraud Yakov Kuzyakov from @uni-goettingen.de who also edits his own papers (not yet retracted, different journal).Will @uni-goettingen.definally kick him out? Oh yeah, he was also found guilty for sexual harassment! Not yet fired
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
August 26, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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Silly correction at Cell Death & Disease. Authors elected to correct just one of these images after accepting that there was an overlapping area, but disputed the other obviously cloned parts. Who accepted the correction at Springer Nature? Sometimes it feels like there are no adults in the loop.
August 21, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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So far the German #fraud Jörg Rinklebe, accomplice of C. Sonne, from @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social has not yet deleted his google scholar profile to hide his fraud. But his profile is looking good! Nice output in 2026! These idiots still believe they are legit scientists.
August 24, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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A sexual harasser, a pervert, and a rascist. Yakov Kuzyakov is welcome as Senior editor @wiley.com
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
August 18, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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Aside from being a future @nobelprize.org winner, Yong Sik Ok from Korea university is also a magician! He turns radish seeds into lettuce plants! (and then back to radish).👇The world's Leading Environmental Scientist, uh, I meant fraud, in action!
doi.org/10.1016/j.po...
August 17, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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Still waiting for them to retract about 200 more articles with sketchy data I reported to them. Gotta start somewhere when you publish 10k+ papers a year and don't even read or review half of them I guess. retractionwatch.com/2026/08/12/b...
Biology journal pulls 100+ articles and counting from special issues for peer review manipulation
Elsevier’s International Journal of Biological Macromolecules has issued more than 100 retractions and counting for manipulated peer review in guest-edited special issues. The publisher has said on…
retractionwatch.com
August 14, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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Five new retractions for Jörg Rinklebe, whom @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social found innocent.
August 14, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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Their assets are frozen, construction is suspended, and their deal is under investigation for fraud. SMITE!
Bless The Albanians Who Stopped Jared And Ivanka
Dear Humans,
www.thegodshow.com
August 14, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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"once in the hands of Axovant, Glaxo’s failed clinical trials were reevaluated to make intepirdine appear full of promise as an Alzheimer’s treatment.
In 2015, Ramaswamy (...) hired his own mother, Geetha Ramaswamy, as Axovant’s vice president"
oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/how-vivek-...
August 14, 2026 at 5:21 AM
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A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications...
August 6, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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We published a new paper in the #CanadianJournalOfCardiology

doi.org/10.1016/j.cj...

We show that 57 of 201 included articles (28.4%) contain image-related or data-related issues. All these papers investigated microvascular injury after acute myocardial infarction in mouse, rat and pig models.
August 6, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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This is not how science works AT ALL.
July 23, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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Russia can’t stop Ukraine from blowing up their weapons & oil infrastructure. So they blow up Ukrainian homes, playgrounds, cafes, hospitals, schools, museums, churches...

Forget morals for a moment — do the math & tell me which side is winning.

Now morals back on: Fuck Russia.
July 2, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Today I'm posting a new blog about an astonishing scientific own goal. Hundreds of papers have reported using a totally wrong antibody to investigate the tumor suppressor p16. This mistake has happened because scientists have muddled the names of two proteins.

forbetterscience.com/2026/06/02/m...
June 2, 2026 at 7:06 AM
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Publication Ethics Hero Roland Seifert asks @springernature.com to investigate his own correction in his own journal, and find out which secret reference manager software he used.
pubpeer.com/publications...
May 16, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Dhayalan Velauthapillai has now 5 retracted articles and still part of the Portfolio Board for Enabling Technologies at the Research Council of Norway.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
pubpeer.com/publications...
@forskning.bsky.social @forbetterscience.bsky.social
May 10, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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Another retraction for professional #papermill #fraud Talha Bin Emran! Notice this time also Raffaele Capasso! This wannabe has put his name on many paper mill publications! But I doubt his university Unina Federico II will care! These frauds continue to publish junk!
April 13, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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Mohammad Taherzadeh is now acting as if he left Boras University because he wanted to, to fully focus on his company, Millow. However, he was 'forced' out the door because of his #fraud. He is a #papermill author and corrupt editor! He already has 8 retractions and many more to follow!
April 10, 2026 at 10:21 AM
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Lorenzo Cohen at MD Anderson presented "Biofield Therapy" results at AACR last week. "Biofield Therapy" sounds scientific but is just a fancy name for telekinesis - AKA staring at mice. Actual photo from his lab below, now deceased psychic staring at mice. Not clear who does the staring these days.
April 10, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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This young man is an "Amateur Sleuth", as the media says.
April 6, 2026 at 9:21 AM