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Patricia Murray

@pmurray65.bsky.social
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Stem cell biologist and ex-nurse. Interested in research integrity. Views my own.

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Leonid Schneider @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Who would've thought in 2015 this site would exist 10 years on. Worse, who would've thought For Better Science would have such an immense impact!
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Leonid Schneider @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
" supplies from a cord blood bank in Slovakia. "
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Just deposited preprint reporting results of Delphi survey on attitudes to sanctions for serious research misconduct zenodo.org/records/1577... #fraud #researchIntegrity
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FAIRS Delphi Survey: Attitudes to sanctions for serious research misconduct
Abstract Background: Research fraud is often seen as a rare event, but evidence from self-report surveys indicates that fabrication and falsification of data are common enough to be a problem. This st...
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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Springer Nature and others have published dozens of papers by Egyptian and Saudi researchers with totally fabricated comet assay images. I have written about these papers here, and provided some tips on how to identify these problematic images: forbetterscience.com/2025/06/24/c...
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🧵Brief explainer on this report, just up on Zenodo zenodo.org/records/1537... Because it's a sensitive topic, there isn't much good evidence about rates of research misconduct. Self-report surveys suggest higher rates than data from official allegations. 1/n
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A non-anonymised review of annual statements on research misconduct from UK institutions in 2023-4, with a focus on research fraud
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
re reporting research misconduct investigations, it's disappointing that the "full dataset" mentioned in this UKCORI report excludes both identities of institutions & all quantitative data. zenodo.org/records/8014... As Oransky/Marcus argue "who does confidentiality serve?" doi.org/10.1017/jme....
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Why Universities Should Make Misconduct Reports Public | Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics | Cambridge Core
Why Universities Should Make Misconduct Reports Public
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Fall-out from Macchiarini scandal seems never-ending. Blogpost by Peter Wilmshurst & Trish Murray. drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/u... Not a good look for UCL; quote: “Neither the UKRIO Code of Practice nor the ICMJE guidelines are UCL policy."
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Patricia Murray @pmurray65.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
UCL rebuffs another falsified paper by Prof Birchall drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/u...
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UCL rebuffs calls to retract another falsified paper by Prof Birchall
The evidence shows that Professor Martin Birchall has been a willing party in research misconduct and that the academic institution that employs him, University College London, finds his conduct ac…
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LizW @cave-malum.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
4 people charged; child was "treated" for ADHD and sleep apnea but wait, RFK Jr says FDA is suppressing benefits of "remedies such as vitamins, stem-cell treatments, hyperbaric oxygen therapy and compounds that aim to detoxify blood." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... @altfda.altgov.info
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Interested in how we can tackle the scourge of research fraud? And meeting people in the delightful city of Oxford? Join us at the FAIRS meeting in April - in-person and online options. More details and booking form: www.sjcfairsmeeting.com (turn off VPN if it doesn't load)
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
And you can now read a copy of the new report: 99-percent.org/wp-content/u...
A picture of doctors and nurses resting in a corridor
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
i look forward to reading this, but initial scan suggests it’s tinkering with a process that might benefit from more radical upheaval.
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Paul Knoepfler @stemcells.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Overview: Mesenchymal cells or MSCs: definition, clinical potential, challenges ipscell.com/2021/02/mese... #stemcells
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Mesenchymal cells or MSCs: definition, clinical potential, challenges - The Niche
MSC field has data that this simple acronym has a more complicated back story. Just call them mesenchymal cells rather than stem cells.
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Bazerman has an excellent book coming out in May where he describes the whole story of Gino and collaborators and reflects on what makes people commit fraud. No punches pulled
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
ALLEA (European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities) Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration in the United States allea.org/portfolio-it...
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ALLEA Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration in the United States
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
disturbing blogpost about unethical use of hyperbaric chambers - inadequate regulation by health authority drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/r...
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Recent death confirms regulators are failing to protect patients
By Professor Patricia Murray and Peter Wilmshurst In an earlier blog we expressed concern that ten doctors, including four professors, at the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trus…
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Patricia Murray @pmurray65.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Unproven HBO therapy poses serious risks: drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/r...
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Recent death confirms regulators are failing to protect patients
By Professor Patricia Murray and Peter Wilmshurst In an earlier blog we expressed concern that ten doctors, including four professors, at the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trus…
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
new paper by @deadneanderthals.bsky.social and colleagues documenting the disturbing phenonmenon of stealth corrections in the scientific literature onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The Existence of Stealth Corrections in Scientific Literature—A Threat to Scientific Integrity
Click on the article title to read more.
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Patricia Murray @pmurray65.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Review of Csaba Szabo's book "Unreliable": "Its central thesis — that the scientific enterprise has been undermined by hypercompetition, financial incentives, and a culture of publish-or-perish — resonates as both a warning and a call to action." forbetterscience.com/2025/02/03/u...
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“Unreliable” by Csaba Szabo – book review and excerpt
Csaba Szabo’s book “Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research” – review by Zoltan Ungvari and excerpt.
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Patricia Murray @pmurray65.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
The long Covid 'treatments' to avoid, including stem cells and hyperbaric oxygen therapy: inews.co.uk/news/health/...
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The long Covid ‘treatments’ to avoid
People with long Covid are resorting to a range of unproven remedies, from supplements to stem cells, but simple rehabilitation techniques are proving the best medicine
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Patricia Murray @pmurray65.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Great news: ipscell.com/2025/01/geor...
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Georgia AG wins $5.1M judgment against stem cell clinic firm Superior Healthcare - The Niche
Professor discusses how the Georgia AG won a huge settlement against Superior Healthcare, Steven Peyroux and Brent Detelich.
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