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Quite shocking that the data appears to be doctored in this published paper in Nature

Unfortunately it seems to happen all the time. The whole fake news concept has legs and seems to be trampling a lot of things we’ve been led to look up to underfoot.

Check out Retaction Watch regularly to see the BS being published in journals. Here’s their most recent weekly summary:

https://retractionwatch.com/2019/02/16/weekend-reads-article-retracted-because-of-racial-characterizations-indias-high-retraction-rate-meet-the-fraud-finder/

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Meet Elizabeth Bik, who has identified more than a thousand fraudulent images in scientific journals (in her spare time no less).

https://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2019/02/12/the-western-blot-vigilante/

A hard lesson for me was that sometimes accuracy is not the first priority. There can be so many conflicts of interest. Sometimes an institution might not want to put pressure on an author who, let’s say, brings in a lot of money and prestige.

Yep, that again. Seems to keep popping up.