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!

" supplies from a cord blood bank in Slovakia. "

Just deposited preprint reporting results of Delphi survey on attitudes to sanctions for serious research misconduct zenodo.org/records/1577... #fraud #researchIntegrity

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...

🧵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

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....

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."

UCL rebuffs another falsified paper by Prof Birchall drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/u...

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

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)

And you can now read a copy of the new report: 99-percent.org/wp-content/u...

i look forward to reading this, but initial scan suggests it’s tinkering with a process that might benefit from more radical upheaval.

Overview: Mesenchymal cells or MSCs: definition, clinical potential, challenges ipscell.com/2021/02/mese... #stemcells

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

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...

disturbing blogpost about unethical use of hyperbaric chambers - inadequate regulation by health authority drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/r...

Unproven HBO therapy poses serious risks: drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/r...

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/...

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...

The long Covid 'treatments' to avoid, including stem cells and hyperbaric oxygen therapy: inews.co.uk/news/health/...

Great news: ipscell.com/2025/01/geor...