Today I'm posting a new blog about an astonishing scientific own goal. Hundreds of papers have reported using a totally wrong antibody to investigate the tumor suppressor p16. This mistake has happened because scientists have muddled the names of two proteins. forbetterscience.com/2026/06/02/m...

Publication Ethics Hero Roland Seifert asks @springernature.com to investigate his own correction in his own journal, and find out which secret reference manager software he used. pubpeer.com/publications...

Dhayalan Velauthapillai has now 5 retracted articles and still part of the Portfolio Board for Enabling Technologies at the Research Council of Norway. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... pubpeer.com/publications... @forskning.bsky.social @forbetterscience.bsky.social

Another retraction for professional #papermill #fraud Talha Bin Emran! Notice this time also Raffaele Capasso! This wannabe has put his name on many paper mill publications! But I doubt his university Unina Federico II will care! These frauds continue to publish junk!

Mohammad Taherzadeh is now acting as if he left Boras University because he wanted to, to fully focus on his company, Millow. However, he was 'forced' out the door because of his #fraud. He is a #papermill author and corrupt editor! He already has 8 retractions and many more to follow!

Well done, @theaacr.bsky.social !

This young man is an "Amateur Sleuth", as the media says.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

Well well, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social has officially buried the need of an objective and neutral peer review and editorial process! Editor + 2 'reviewers' linked to the authors! Yeah right! F*ck this shit. This is a joke! The corrupt editor Damia Barcelo escapes again!

Xiaoyuan “Shawn” Chen was sacked in Singapore for sexual harassment, but he is also a massive research cheater. And member of various academies! forbetterscience.com/2026/04/03/s...

Another gem from the nanorrhea literature.

A decade with fraud at the #China #Pharmaceutical #University: pubpeer.com/search?q=han... Several of her new #peptide drugs and related patents have been successfully transformed, with some having entered #clinical #research.

The question now is: will they also retract all the other papers from these idiots with the same conflict of interest? It's pretty obvious it's #fraud and if you retract 1 paper, you should also retract the other....

Happy Friday, to those who celebrate! forbetterscience.com/2026/03/27/s...

This retraction in the journal of hazardous materials might be an important precedent given the highly corrupt editor and #papermill #fraud Jörg Rinklebe from @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social edited dozens of papers for his frequent coauthors in this journal. Will @elsevierconnect.bsky.social finally act?

Iran says they haven't spoken to anyone in the US about a cease-fire. I believe them over the liar-in-chief or any of his sewer clown spokespeople. Pretty bad when we believe an 'enemy' over our own government. It doesn't feel good at all. #NoKingsMarch28

Professor Hanmei Xu, #China #Pharmaceutical #University Several of her new #peptide drugs and related patents have been successfully transformed, with some having entered #clinical #research. She is also a fraudster: pubpeer.com/search?q=Han... @frontiersin.bsky.social

The #fraud by Yong Sik Ok from Korea University was already made public in 2021 by Ali Raja👇. However, publishers refused to and still do to stop his fraud. Yong Sik Ok is a #papermill fraud and corrupt editor part of a large network of frauds. aliprotonsaga.medium.com/the-truth-ab...

Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.

Two retraction for @aphm-chu-marseille.bsky.social superstar Philippe Gautret! This #fraud is closely linked to the perhaps even biggest fraud of them all there: Didier Raoult. Yet the French authorities have taken almost no steps nor has the IHU Marseille. Unbelievable.

Here it is, another retraction (nr 21) for #papermill #fraud Fatih Sen! @universitemdpu.bsky.social most likely still fully supports this fraud. These frauds usually always have the full support of their universities. doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Retraction nr 30 for professional #papermill #fraud Arivalagan Pugazhendhi👇! He is on his way to the @retractionwatch.com leaderboard! He has published hundreds of fake papers. doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Let us remember that Pau Loke Show reviewed more than 800 (!!!) papers in 2021 and 2023. On top of this he edited more than 1000 papers. Knowing he is a corrupt editor, reviewer & #papermill #fraud; the extent of this fraud is massive! Thousands of papers are affected! Consequences so far limited.

Do not trust articles published in Cell Communication and Signaling! pubpeer.com/publications... #plagiarism #China @springernature.com

Do not trust Frontiers when reading review articles! #plagiarism #misinformation @frontiersmedia.bsky.social 1/2

The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution. - Thomas Jefferson

Every American should be ashamed of who we are and what we have become as a nation today. We have a long history of military misadventures and even crimes but the attacks we have been conducting on Venezuela are among the most wanton, egregious and least defensible acts we’ve ever conducted.

Can the editor of Science Signaling explain why it took 11 months to retract a paper by the Lesné group after being requested to do so by the authors' institutional research integrity officer, who confirmed published figure did not represent research record. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

On behalf of Chris Graf: A.

Russia is a terrorist state and anyone who supports this or praises Putin is reprehensible This is what Ukrainians have to go through every single damn day

Gigantic epidemiology population trial starts with a drug nobody knows what its long term effect is.

1994-2001: US disarms Ukraine of nuclear warheads & intercontinental ballistic missiles After 9/11: Ukraine sends over 5,000 troops to a "war on another continent" to help the US. 18 die. 2014: Russia invades Ukraine. 2025: US - "It's not our war. It's a war on another continent."

WHO doesn't apply any standards even to biomedicine. They encourage fraud, so why shouldn't homeopathy, TCM and Ayurveda work also? forbetterscience.com/2018/10/11/w...

The U.S. Department of Justice has reached a $15 million NIH grant fraud settlement with Dana-Farber Cancer Center. This resolves a False Claims Act qui tam complaint that I filed on behalf of @sholtodavid.bsky.social in April 2024, with Gregg Shapiro as my co-counsel.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Agrees to Pay $15 Million to Settle Fraud Allegations Related to Scientific Research Grants. The relator [Sholto David] will receive $2,625,000 under today’s settlement. www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/d...

German professor gets told once again he's a moron, in a retraction notice

This should apply to many other journals/publishers

This article co-authored by German soil science superstar Rinklebe was just retracted. The editors somehow didn't believe 6410 g/kg was a reliable datapoint: "...in Table S1 the total potassium content (TK) = 6410 g ± 13.2 g kg-1, meaning that one kg of soil contained about seven kg of potassium."

Third retraction for #papermill #fraud Jörg Rinklebe from @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social! This time he managed to defy the laws of physics and measure 6.4 kg of K in 1 kg of soil! Of course the whole paper was fake! Will @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social finally act? doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

When BMC published this the first days of 2025 we should have known how the year will turn out: Namini et al. 2025 (DOI: 10.1186/s12967-024-06048-z) in 'Journal of Translational Medicine'. This is one of 120 papers from this journal that I flagged in the last 4 weeks... pubpeer.com/publications...

Perhaps it’s not bizarre when there is so much corruption in science, helping with the collapse in trust 🔽

Dette stinker fælt av korrupsjon.

This AI generated piece of crap published only roughly 3 weeks ago has already been retracted! As long as enough media pays attention to it, retractions can go fast.... Go figure! A lot still to be retracted by @springernature.com, for sure in Scientific Reports doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A major scandal is unfolding in #Norway. The government was advised to purchase protective #masks for 100 million NOK from the Norwegian company #Watchbird. They were intended for protection against tear gas and similar threats for the #Ukrainian military. www.vg.no/nyheter/i/Ok...

Sterk sak fra VG. 3000 kr for buff som funker dårligere enn munnbind og personen i Forsvaret som anbefalte regjeringen å kjøpe dette er kompis med han som driver firmaet.

Another retraction for #papermill #fraud Arivalagan Pugazhendi! This fraud has published nothing but paper mill crap! Finally some journals are retracting his crap. He is on his way to the @retractionwatch.com leaderboard!

The link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say. Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA#microbiome @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social

Abdelhabib Semlali and co-workers at #UniversitéLaval, Québec #Canada have published a large number of papers with questionable content. #Research #misconduct # pubpeer.com/search?q=sem...

That fucking creep is back, thanks to Trump. forbetterscience.com/2020/10/13/b...