If you're wondering why @bmj.com haven't already retracted this debacle: since 1989 Retraction Watch shows they have retracted a grand total of 7 research articles, so maybe they don't know how to.

After seeing this eye-catching headline, I took a look at the paper and I think it is possible that one of the claims in the paper may be wrong due to an arithmetic error.

Unbelievable! How can this crap still be published?

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Happy Friday for those who celebrate and are in the totally wrong Time Zone. forbetterscience.com/2025/11/07/s...

I reported this to @pnas.org in 2021 and 2022. So far I don't see that anything has happened. Non-profit publishers sometimes seem just as disinterested in cleaning up past problems as for-profit publishers. YMMV. pubpeer.com/publications...

Oopsies. NIH-funded research courtesy of International Journal of Biological Sciences and researchers from @Tulane and @Penn + others. Odd place to publish NIH-funded research. 🧐 pubpeer.com/publications...

A judge has dismissed a final claim by prominent biologist David Sabatini against his former employer and curtailed Sabatini’s lawsuit directed at the woman who accused him of sexual harassment. https://scim.ag/3JBnQCc

A study I wrote to the journal about in May this year was just retracted: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... The review paper claimed that the majority of benefits in clinical trials could be explained by placebo effects.

Big story on Iranian research by Leonid. forbetterscience.com/2025/11/05/b...

Unhinged comes to mind.

Oopsies. Courtesy of @elsevierconnect.bsky.social's Molecular Therapy - Nucleic Acids and researchers from institutions in China, including the "Criminal Investigation Police University of China." pubpeer.com/publications...

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

Oopsies. Courtesy of @elsevierconnect.bsky.social's Molecular Therapy - Nucleic Acids and researchers from institutions in China, including the "Criminal Investigation Police University of China." pubpeer.com/publications...

Hey @dereklowe.bsky.social, welcome to the club. x.com/SciGuardians...

Happy Friday to those who celebrate. Happy Halloween too! 👻 forbetterscience.com/2025/10/31/s...

Hundreds of animal studies about early brain injury after subarachnoid hemorrhage show signs of image manipulation or duplication, which may have stalled research into treatments. By @lauren-schneider.com #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/i...

Great balls of (Halloween) fire 🎃☄️. New paper by @boslough.bsky.social. news.unm.edu/news/unm-res...

Ethically questionable behavior from @SabinehazanMD. You can buy her research papers for $15.00 on her website, even though most/all are in Open Access journals which offer *free* access. Example from @MDPIOpenAccess below. microbiomeresearchfoundation.org/product-cate...

Paper mills are far more adaptable than the institutions fighting them. Case in point: after journals started using "anti-plagiarism" software, paper mills started selling access to the same software. See our new letter in PNAS, replying to a letter by Philipp Singer: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Dr. who? channels his inner Monty Python in his newest attempts to peddle his unproven FMTVDM imaging technique. "This is not just imaging. This is Camelot reborn." 🤡 www.fmtvdm.com/about-5

Paper by former top NIH official and neuropathologist Eliezer Masliah received an Expression of Concern last week by Neuron. While it benefits other scientists that the paper is now flagged, two things could have been done much better. / www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

COSIG has a new landing page! Check it out at cosig.net. (Files for COSIG are still hosted on OSF!)

Shocking and puzzling development. www.science.org/content/arti...

Six years after researchers called for the retraction of more than 400 papers about organ transplantation amid suspicion the organs used in the studies came from executed Chinese prisoners, journals are still working to clear the record.

Happy Friday to those who celebrate! forbetterscience.com/2025/10/24/s...

The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com

Stop it Scientific Reports, you are drunk (again). Basically the transients in this study are mostly plate flaws so who knows what they are correlating with nuclear tests. Could they just correlating good weather at Palomar and Nevada? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reported to BMC Cancer 3 years ago. Retracted today. @springernature.com should do better. pubpeer.com/publications...

Good news: ACM retracted some problematic papers. Bad news: Only some, without apparent logic, as you can tell by following the links of my old blog post. Doesn't look like they understand the concept of trust in an organizing/reviewing committee. solalpirelli.github.io/2023/01/25/t...

@miryamnaddaf.bsky.social reports at length for @nature.com about identity verification in scientific publishing and why it is no trivial task (featuring some lovely illustrations): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Don't worry mom, I'll get you out!"

Thank you to @journals.sagepub.com for retracting a probable paper mill paper about 1 year after being notified, and for acknowledging the role of @pubpeer.com. pubpeer.com/publications...

Solar Energy and Power Electronic Co., Ltd., a suspected fake company, has published 44 articles with fishy authorship on Elsevier and Springer Nature journals. Details: www.5gh.org.cn/WuGH/2025/00... We are asking the publishers to step in for further investigations.

retractionwatch.com/2025/10/20/e... 😺

Does he actually think Grok (or any LLM) will be swayed by his argument? That's not how any of this works 🤦‍♂️

The kind of hard-hitting science you can find in @acm.org's International Conference Proceedings Series, a.k.a. the stuff that no established group is sponsoring. doi.org/10.1145/3456...

Larry! reason.com/2025/10/17/l...

Controversial Paxil “Study 329” earns expression of concern after critic sues publisher

As his fraud trial looms, Alzheimer’s scientist exonerated by his university—sort of - CUNY's puzzling analysis of a collaborator of Cassava Sciences www.science.org/content/arti...

Making sense of the nonsense. "The more outlandish or easily disproved something is, the more powerful one might seem when standing by it." arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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“It’s the Websters. They say there’s some pitiful thing dying of thirst out their way, and would we like to come over?”

I’m deeply honored to have been named as the recipient of the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting from the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. It recognizes my work on scientific integrity for Science Magazine over the last five years. 1/7 tinyurl.com/zz54fzyr

Thank you Charles, and congratulations! 🎉

The grifters have entered Bluesky. Makis reckons he can sell bleach with his parasitic drug… for cancer #QuackMakis #Noncologist

Oopsies. Courtesy of @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social journal Cells and researchers from University of Nottingham and De Montfort University Leicester. Paper has already been corrected once. pubpeer.com/publications...