Reposted by CheshireFabian Wittmers @academic-integrity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Totally 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... 071
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Veteran researchers discussing the state of research integrity at the WIN Consortium. 130
Reposted by CheshireFabrice FRANK @fabricefrank.eurosky.social · 29/09/202675 and 76th retractions for the IHU of Marseille. The 63rd and 64th for Didier Raoult. 43610
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Some health leaders in the U.S. seem singularly ill-informed. 011
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 28/09/20265 years later, the journal resolves this with an expression of concern. 😕 Wiley’s Journal of Neuroscience Research. pubpeer.com/publications... 040
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Baffling judgment. Sharing an extraordinary cancer-treatment claim from an apparent Joe Tippens IVM-touting impersonator, then noting the PET images looked doctored (only after @DrArturoAI flagged that). “Keep an open mind” shouldn’t mean skipping basic source verification. 051
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Crazy story. reason.com/volokh/2026/...reason.comBrothzilla, or "It's a Cruel Thing to Disrupt Your Estranged Sister's Expensive Destination Wedding"And there's a defamation case stemming from all that. 000
Reposted by CheshireSholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I'm posting a new video about a team of ophthalmology researchers in Germany who scribbled on their figures! t.co/X2U6zCw9pn 1259
Reposted by CheshireMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham. I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.comnature.comExclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchersA Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices. 10309186
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“It’s the first time that I can recall that the general public knows so much” about a drug. The birth control pill would like a word. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/w... @nytimes.comnytimes.comMany Americans Use GLP-1 Drugs Without a Medical Reason, Study ShowsA new study identified more than 1 million people taking weight-loss drugs without any apparent medical reason to do so. 031
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Because, Charlotte, your co-author, just posted 16 replies on your *COVID vaccines cause cancer signals* thread on PubPeer. Don’t you remember the “smoking gun” paper? 😸 161
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Interesting incentives and legal issues. youtu.be/M8HxQkk0PSY?...youtu.beI Finally Defeated Every Copyright Claim on My Channel (ft. LegalEagle)YouTube video by Rick Beato 011
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In what appears to be the last author’s 4th retraction, MDPI journal Molecules acts swiftly (10 mos). 👏 pubpeer.com/publications... 031
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I don’t have anything to add to the discussion, but Noonan’s point about language makes sense (unlocked article) www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...wsj.comOpinion | The Sandbox at the End of the WorldAI’s creators go from speaking in euphemism to telling us how terrified they are. We should listen. 021
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Retraction. It took more than 4 years from when I emailed the journal (@journals.sagepub.com) about these serious concerns. Frankly, that's totally ridiculous. h/t anon Hoya and thanks to @elisabethbik.bsky.social for exposing additional problems,🍺♥️, respectively. pubpeer.com/publications... 093
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026www.wsj.com/tech/ai/jaco... (Unlocked article)wsj.comThe Anonymous Math Geek Who Quit Anthropic—and Became the Face of AI SafetyLong-simmering worries about the technology’s potential dangers have exploded into the global consciousness since Jacob Coxon’s dire warning. 021
Reposted by CheshirePatrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 16/09/2026Some of you have never had to scrape a soul off the ceiling because you didn’t rope it down first and it shows 136031
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I don’t often compliment Oncotarget, but credit where it’s due: the journal has been remarkably busy cleaning up the scientific record in 2026. Retractions, corrections, and editorial notes make up almost two-thirds of its output so far. 😸 270
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Doing what they do best (corrected). pubpeer.com/publications... (I swapped 2 photos). 112
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Dr. who? loses another paper. pubpeer.com/publications... 274
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Tell me you don’t understand negative controls without telling me you don’t understand negative controls. 143
Reposted by CheshireLonni Besançon @lonnibesancon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Weather report: Edinburgh 🏴 151
Reposted by CheshireWU Guangheng @5gh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Multiple companies in Nanchang are suspected of selling academic papers, details: www.5gh.org.cn/Report/2026/... 032
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It took JCMM (Wiley) only 6 months to retract this (likely paper mill) paper. 👏 h/t Anon Hoya. pubpeer.com/publications... 053
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Nothing new, but a good synopsis which leaves open the question: why is he still employed? dukechronicle.com/article/duke...dukechronicle.comDuke professor Dan Ariely’s research article retracted after fraud allegationsAfter evidence of significant fraud in a 2002 research paper co-authored by Dan Ariely was publicized this week by blog Data Colada, scientific journal Psychological Science decided to retract the pap... 081
Reposted by CheshireFabian Wittmers @academic-integrity.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Wiley'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... 164
Reposted by CheshireFabian Wittmers @academic-integrity.bsky.social · 26/08/2026You know you messed up when even MDPI thinks your self-citations are bad enough to retract your paper: www.mdpi.com/2075-4418/16... 064
Reposted by CheshireMark Boslough @boslough.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This presentation about problems with the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis should be fun. First presentation of the first session on the first day of the American Geological Society meeting starting on 11 October in Denver. gsameetings.secure-platform.com/connects26/s...gsameetings.secure-platform.comGeological Society of America - Abstract 141
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026👀 @reeserichardson.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social arstechnica.com/science/2026...arstechnica.comLab supply companies have been selling antibodies using manipulated imagesImage changes that would get a paper retracted are widespread among suppliers. 0138
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026#YDIH RIP gsameetings.secure-platform.com/connects26/s... #factfreescience 100
Reposted by CheshireReese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵 18454329
Reposted by CheshireLeonid Schneider @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 25/08/2026@arbitraryeffect.bsky.social caused retraction of two more papers! 163
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Reported to @elsevierconnect.bsky.social JAN 2025. Retracted SEP 2026 because “Figure 2 Panel a, b, c, and d appear to depict the same source image, but are described as representing different experimental samples.” 😿🙃 pubpeer.com/publications... 041
Reposted by CheshireLeonid Schneider @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Schneider Shorts 21.08.2026 – Two names inside the same argument forbetterscience.com/2026/08/21/s...forbetterscience.comSchneider Shorts 21.08.2026 – Two names inside the same argumentSchneider Shorts 21.08.2026 – after the racists got their lynching, guess who joins the Jason Arday debate, one Spanish professor and one Canadian professor explain things, and two white men … 032
Reposted by CheshireCharles Piller @charlespiller.bsky.social · 18/08/2026More Alzheimer's Research Trouble | Science | AAAS More Alzheimer's Research Trouble | Science | AAAS - Derek Lowe's thoughtful take on my latest investigation (with my colleague @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social ) www.science.org/content/blog... www.science.org/content/blog...science.orgMore Alzheimer's Research Trouble 173
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026It took @springernature.com 3 years after @mumumouse2.bsky.social flagged this paper for them to retract it. "The authors were unable to provide a sufficient response to concerns." This is, frankly, ridiculous. Authors manipulated data = retraction. pubpeer.com/publications... 082
Reposted by CheshireDorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 16/08/2026New blogpost deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/08/acce... inspired by recent depressing experience as a peer reviewer. AI-generated #fraud is getting very hard to detect. #peerreviewdeevybee.blogspot.comAcceleration of the arms race between fraudsters and honest researchersI was recently asked to review a paper that piqued my curiosity. From the abstract it sounded as if it was a secondary analysis of a datas... 59552
Cheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! His chief weapon is surprise. Surprise and fear. Fear and surprise… and a nearly fanatical devotion to selfies. 141
Reposted by CheshireFabian Wittmers @academic-integrity.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Still 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...retractionwatch.comBiology journal pulls 100+ articles and counting from special issues for peer review manipulationElsevier’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… 0136
Reposted by CheshireBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Very very upset at the University of Cambridge higher ups. I don’t think their remaining in situ given this week - in court and with Arday - is remotely tenable. 1126443
Reposted by CheshireRetraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 14/08/2026Earlier this week, we reported on a Princeton student’s decision to retract her own paper from an engineering journal due to “significant methodological errors.” The student, Rishika Porandla, now tells us she never conducted the experiments described in the study.retractionwatch.comPrinceton student says she did not conduct the experiments described in her now-retracted paperA figure from the now-retracted paper in Macromolecular Materials and Engineering shows the “hypothesized effects” of the experiments described in the study. Earlier this week, Retracti… 1225