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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 13h

TIL that Robert Gayre, one of the founders of white supremacist journal Mankind Quarterly, claimed to be chief of the "Clan Gayre", a Scottish clan that he was later shown to have completely made up. He also claimed several dubious noble titles. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...

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Robert Gayre - Wikipedia

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Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 8h

The Nobel Prize Whiner went on stage to complain about @pubpeer.com, @retractionwatch.com, @forbetterscience.bsky.social, and @elisabethbik.bsky.social... all living rent free in his head. Is there something about winning a Nobel Prize that makes some laureates embrace increasingly kooky ideas?

visit https://youtu.be/TGhyqHC4DJI for the video

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Fabian Wittmers @academic-integrity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In an interesting turn of events, the publisher (Emerald Publishing) claims that they are responsible for the corner clone ("manipulated image") in the article below. pubpeer.com/publications... Curious why they would deem it necessary to manipulate images like that.

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PubPeer - Zein-oleic acid as a green, transparent and effective biofil...

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Zein-oleic acid as a green, transparent and effective biofilm for copper corrosion protection (2026)

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Fabian Wittmers @academic-integrity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Totally legit comet assay in Elsevier's Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology (DOI: 10.1016/j.etap.2018.01.007). Spotted this because of @sholtodavid.bsky.social's post on FBS detailing how widespread these fake assays are! pubpeer.com/publications...

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Leonid Schneider @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tsatsakis is literally the mafia, cocaine and all. And he runs all of the European toxicology.

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Dr David Robert Grimes @drg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's bizarre how we seem to be ok with charlatans exploiting vulnerable patients - thanks to @theguardian.com for covering our concerns.. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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‘Self-healing’ coach who was banned from working in Australia to speak in UK

Barbara O’Neill has previously claimed that cancer is a fungus that can be treated with bicarbonate soda

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Valentin Rodionov @arbitraryeffect.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just ran into some really funny-lookin' oxygens in peer-reviewed literature. Not even AI slop, just plain old incompetence. And yes, it graces someone's CV. #ChemSky #chemchat www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A very much incorrect scheme of the formation of ozone. Lewis structures "oxygen radicals" are depicted as species with 6 paired electrons; and the Lewis structures for ozone itself are funny-looking.

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skeptvet.bsky.social @skeptvet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Supplements to build muscle in dogs- Do they work? skeptvet.com/2026/08/supp...

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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

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Peer-Reviewed Slop @peer-reviewed-slop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Springer Nature uses a combination of screening tools, AI-enabled approaches and expert human oversight to identify and assess unethical or fraudulent content, according to director of research integrity Chris Graf. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... AND THEN WE PUBLISH ANYWAYS LOL XD

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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Supplements, home tests and wearables resemble medicine without sharing its evidential burden. They may offer no benefit, generate false alarms or produce contradictory advice. The wellness industry sells medical authority without accountability. archive.ph/4rXhQ www.newscientist.com/article/2586...

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Xand van Tulleken on the 3 wellness trends to be most wary of | New Scientist

The wellness boom has brought a wide array of consumer products that promise to boost your health and happiness. Xand van Tulleken has delved into it all and explains how to think about the evidence…

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Cell (the journal) desperately needs editors who understand clinical trials. JAMA, Lancet, BMJ, NEJM etc are far from perfect, but I think that most clinical trials reported in Cell would get laughed out of the room at these other journals who take trials seriously.

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

pretty spectacular list of issues in this paper in J Neurolinguistics pubpeer.com/publications... Esp embarrassing for @elsevierconnect.bsky.social , given this is the 2nd contribution this year from this author pubpeer.com/publications...

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PubPeer - Decoding cognitive diversity in reading: Uncovering latent b...

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Decoding cognitive diversity in reading: Uncovering latent brain connectivity subtypes using graph autoencoders on rs-fMRI data (2026)

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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Only 97 of a total of 790 reported cases of editors handling papers for their (frequent) co-authors were retracted so far by STOTEN! Will @elsevierconnect.bsky.social really clean up or just do the bare minimum? 👇And J. Rinklebe knew very well who edited his papers! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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STOTEN COIs

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Fabian Wittmers @academic-integrity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

(4/x) I want to mention RSC as well. Out of the 30 reports I filed with them, all but 1 have not been addressed. ACS does address a lot more articles than most publishers, but basically never retracts anything. They have accepted corrections so blatantly covering up fraud it's frankly embarrassing.

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Fabian Wittmers @academic-integrity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

(3/x) The picture changes quite a bit if we look at corrections, EoC's and retractions combined. T&F although remains very low. Basically: Almost nothing I reported in the last 2 years has been addressed by T&F at all.

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Fabian Wittmers @academic-integrity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

(1/x) I was intrigued by what Thomas observed when comparing retraction rate by publisher, so I looked at the 3300 reports I filed over the last 2 years. Here is what I found. More thoughts on this below. (caveat: uneven sample-size with many more report to Springer/Elsevier than other publishers)

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Leonid Schneider @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Look what Peter McCullough published! Covid vaccines cause heart cancer! Only ivermectin helps? Tell @weldeiry.bsky.social ! zenodo.org/records/2267...

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Nick Wise @nhwise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

He may have written 200 papers but they're not getting through peer review. This doesn't look like someone who's become more productive. app.dimensions.ai/discover/pub...

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New (sorry, rather long) blogpost on Reproducibility Packages, garden of forking paths, and importance of checking validity of datasets and analyses. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/09/trus... This expands on my PubPeer comments on Packalen & Bhattacharya (2020) article. pubpeer.com/publications...

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Trust in data: reproducibility packages do not guarantee validity

Last year the World Bank made news when it announced that all its outputs would include a reproducibility package, which contains all th...

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A correction to a 2026 Nature paper. This is PubPeer working quite well (in my view at least). I spotted the error and the authors corrected the paper and replied on PubPeer to update. If I had to complain I would rather the correction referenced the PubPeer comment. pubpeer.com/publications...

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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#papermill #fraud at its best! All (!!) the authors of this paper were added during the revision process, replacing the 6 original authors! Unbelievable. @elsevierconnect.bsky.social is rotten to the core! Thousands of such papers are being published.👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

But a recurring pattern is that @tandfresearch.bsky.social and @sagepub.com almost never retract. That feels kind of weird to have to group them with predatory publishers in that regard... Here's the proportion of retracted papers among the 600+ crap that I reported to EiC over the last years ⤵️

bar graph showing the N of publications reported by @tomk.eurosky.social to different publishers. Roughly a fourth (23%) have been retracted but almost none by Taylor & Francis, SAGE, and "others". ACS and Emerald have retracted >half of reported papers

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same as it ever was. Despite attempts by the press and some of my MAHA-sympathetic colleagues to sanewash him, RFK Jr. hasn’t changed. He’d seek the same antivax crank he’s always been at least since 2005.

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Peer-Reviewed Slop @peer-reviewed-slop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

...and then the canalog input connects to nothing... and SOCK... Ah, got it! 💡 Circuit runs on Vibes instead of Volts! Finally! A green flash and Bonkers-Slopp radiation is emitted! doi.org/10.1007/s429...

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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

First time speaking as CDC Director at a health conference and she doesn't address measles or vaccines; and won't answer a question on 4th PA measles related death- not sure this is the path to rebuilding trust... which she states is her priority www.ajc.com/news/2026/09... @altcdc.altgov.info

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In first public appearance, new CDC director vows to rebuild trust

Dr. Erica Schwartz avoided commenting on measles deaths in Pennsylvania.

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Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Dr. who? loses another paper. pubpeer.com/publications...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My quote of the day The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. Stephen Jay Gould

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Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm experimenting with a co-author basic network analysis to explore dubious quality publication. Last year we reported a (now retracted) review by Abdur Rauf, then we found faked systematic reviews by Talha Bin Emran. Now checking the other high degree authors in the network...

A co-authorship network of authors linked to low-quality & faked reviews. Author name is followed by the degree of the network node.

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Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm happy to say I have managed to report all 12 faked systematic reviews that we discovered on PubPeer. The corresponding URLs are in the ALT text. I'm awaiting responses from most of the publishers/authors -- other than one author admission:

1. https://pubpeer.com/publications/E858A6B3492DB679121B1358E1CDEA#null
2. https://pubpeer.com/publications/E223A9D5CF9F48D2BA6E31A5B7B163
3. https://pubpeer.com/publications/5EA00303B5EDCCDAF82304D93F0A1C
4. https://pubpeer.com/publications/339F22D24DEBFB96025FC31675A9F4
5. https://pubpeer.com/publications/650876481D7FC858E2F95148AB264C#null
6. https://pubpeer.com/publications/BE8365B6373075786A0DE05323125A#null
7. https://pubpeer.com/publications/ABE3AB3258181CD400EDFC900E3851
8. https://pubpeer.com/publications/A87CFEBAA1950F2D96195B8B8088B8
9. https://pubpeer.com/publications/233E9B0E67EAB1C92CD3904F5587C2#null
10. https://pubpeer.com/publications/365A43971AC6C7292696BA05F2300D
11. https://pubpeer.com/publications/A8F0DC88104363F2E9334CE67A03EA
12. https://pubpeer.com/publications/FFC531637B4932529E46082BC0004E

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Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Tell me you don’t understand negative controls without telling me you don’t understand negative controls.

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Dr. Richard Pan @drpanmd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#MAHA is about grift for its leaders, not better health. Glyphosate, mercury & formaldehyde were MAHA poisons at any dose until Trump decided to increase children’s exposure to all of them and RFK Jr. agreed. apnews.com/article/maha...

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RFK Jr. fought pesticides for years. Now he's backing their production

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doubling down on his support for an executive order that would aim to boost the production of a controversial weedkiller ingredient called glyphosate, even though it is wideni...

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Fabian Wittmers @academic-integrity.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Zhang et al. 2025 (DOI: 10.1016/j.fbio.2025.106189), published in 'Food Bioscience' Nice use of photoshop. More on PubPeer: pubpeer.com/publications... Yikes:

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And the evidence that NIH is deficient in "cutting edge" science is itself deficient. pubpeer.com/publications...

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PubPeer - NIH funding and the pursuit of edge science

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: NIH funding and the pursuit of edge science (2020)

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WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Recently, the 5GH Team noticed that some users on RedNote (also known as Xiaohongshu), a popular Chinese social media platform, were looking for authors who had submitted manuscripts to academic journals and asking them to cite their clients' articles. Details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/...

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

MAHA has been partisan since its inception, because the concept of MAHA as a general movement didn’t really exist until RFK Jr. co-opted the slogan, which happened *after* he’d bent the knee to Donald Trump. Before that, it was just groups of “health freedom” advocates, quacks, and antivaxxers.

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WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Multiple companies in Nanchang are suspected of selling academic papers, details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/...

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Fabian Wittmers @academic-integrity.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Marian and Fady loose their first paper. One year after reporting their questionable art to the journal. See more of their art here: forbetterscience.com/2025/09/29/f...

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Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It took JCMM (Wiley) only 6 months to retract this (likely paper mill) paper. 👏 h/t Anon Hoya. pubpeer.com/publications...

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Leonid Schneider @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Featuring two dead Italian scientists and their dead papers

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

for those of you interested in the debate over Packalen & Bhattacharya’s ‘edge science’ analysis, I’ve added further comment on PubPeer - the categorisation of ideas is quite questionable IMHO pubpeer.com/publications... #NIH

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PubPeer - NIH funding and the pursuit of edge science

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: NIH funding and the pursuit of edge science (2020)

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am incredibly exhausted. These constant air raids are becoming increasingly difficult to endure. Ballistic missile attacks instead of sleep, and jet-powered drones terrorizing us throughout the day. We aren't invincible. We are humans that are being tortured in broad daylight, live.

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 31/08/2026

Yeah, I've dealt with a publisher not wanting to issue a correction (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/12/10/i...). But in this case, I doubt the psych science editors are hesitant. Which is why I'm curious what the delay is.

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IEEE’s Refusal to Issue Corrections | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lies about measles in Samoa In 2019, RFK Jr. went to Samoa to promote antivax propaganda that fueled a measles outbreak. We now learn it was even worse than reported.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lies about measles in Samoa

In 2019, RFK Jr. went to Samoa to promote antivax propaganda that fueled a measles outbreak. We now learn it was even worse than reported.

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WU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A recent investigation reveals that three unrelative studies conducted by the team from Wuhan Children's Hospital, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, share the same ethical approval (grant number: 2024R151-E01). Details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 30/08/2026

I know that authors usually don’t pick headlines, but even then, this one is a bit bold for a piece that literally says “There are currently no scientifically valid biomarkers for any psychiatric condition, with the exception of certain proteins used to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease.”

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Fabian Wittmers @academic-integrity.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wiley's Research Integrity team tells me: "investigation has concluded that there are no serious concerns about the citation activity" Guo has been fired/left his University after I reported his citation extortion practices, so something isn't adding up here... pubpeer.com/publications...

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