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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 04/08/2026

“When I looked carefully at the spreadsheet, I could see entire blocks of data that were repeated,” recalled John Loadsman, an anesthesiologist and scientific sleuth at the University of Sydney. “It was obvious that this was cooked.”

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High-profile anesthesiologists earning retractions for data, image problems

Credit: funkenzauber/Adobe Stock In July 2021, John Loadsman received a manuscript about a clinical trial that immediately roused his suspicion. Then the editor-in-chief of Anaesthesia and Intensiv…

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 24/06/2026

Clarivate’s influential Web of Science database of abstracts and citations has paused coverage of new content from a collection of surgery journals, including a top-ranked title in the field, following a Retraction Watch investigation from March.

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Major citation index put surgery journals on hold following Retraction Watch investigation

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 20/02/2026

A Retraction Watch story left one reader intrigued. “I’ve never seen anything like that before,” said John Loadsman of the University of Sydney, an anesthesiologist and journal editor. “I thought, I’ve got to have a look.”

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Publisher flags more than 120 papers three and a half years after learning of problems

What started as a small editorial conundrum several years ago has turned into an expression of concern for dozens of papers in a medical journal, thanks to the work of an Australian physician and s…

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Kaveh Bazargan @kaveh1000.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Depressing that a huge proportion of image misconduct is in Cancer research. Paper published 20 years back. Clear signs of Photoshop. First reports on PubPeer was 2024. @grumpygasbag.bsky.social pointed to more problems. I have just done another animation based on that. pubpeer.com/publications...

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer. Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to follow suit. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer

Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to follow suit.

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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Hey @tandfresearch.bsky.social, - you should not allow authors to address photoshopped tumors by just leaving out the photoshopped tumors. This paper was 1 year old at the time of correction. Where are the originals? Horrible editorial decision. #ImageForensics

Screenshot of the original published figure (left) and the corrected figure (right). In the left photo we see tumors in a grid of 5 columns and 6 rows. Two sets of tumors are marked by me with blue and green boxes respectively.
In the right photo the duplicated tumors are just left out.

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

We would like to thank the awardees, speakers, moderators, and guests for the wonderful evening at the 2024 #EinsteinFoundationAward ceremony! @kaiwegner.bsky.social @regberlin.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social @pubpeer.com @helenajambor.bsky.social @chrischmied.bsky.social

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John Loadsman @grumpygasbag.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

At least they didn't use a serif font for the error bars. https//e-century.u...

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aicjournal.bsky.social @aicjournal.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

A simulated ‘can’t intubate, can’t oxygenate’ manikin crossover study investigating a modified front-of-neck access airway device journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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John Loadsman @grumpygasbag.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

This is different. Eyeglasses and candles for mean markers. Perhaps the editor(s), reviewers and Wiley could have borrowed the candles and glasses to help them see the problems with the error bars pubpeer.com/publications...

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