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Two-year update after reporting a set of papers that claim that 'miracle doctor' Yan Xin can kill cancer cells with his life force - without providing a scientific explanation, but

Five years ago I found three possibly Photoshopped images in a @ScienceMagazine paper by the lab of @RPlasterk Yesterday, the paper got retracted.Here is what happened, and what went wrong

Today, I present to you The Paper With More References Than Words. It has 182 words and 212 references. All references are from the first author. Who works at a

A retraction of a paper from @univamu, co-authored by @raoult_didier, and published in 2013 in @PLOSPathogens https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1003827Here is the post on @PubPeer with my concerns: http

Lots of people asked me for my opinion about this thread. My unsalted opinion? This is BS.https://twitter.com/LRBbookshop/status/1301469852599754753 The thread claims that prawns cannot be properly photographed because they are bioluminesce

My comments on the #MedBikini paper on @PubPeer."The authors fail to give a clear definition of their inclusion and exclusion criteria. This is not science, it is judgement. Which measurements

Sepehri and Fioranelli strike again. See my previous comments on PubPeer: https://pubpeer.com/search?q=alireza+sepehri https://twitter.com/Reviewer__2/status/1286003761320611842 They have published several papers on electromagnetic waves an

I am going to see if I can install #sherloq made available by GuidoBartoli here: https://github.com/GuidoBartoli/sherloqIt is a Forensic Image Analysis tool. Sort of what I do by eye, but

Dear Tweeps, I present to you the Mysterious Case of the Two Papers With Identical Results.In this thread, we will learn how identical results can obtained in both Gastric Cancer

I love this.The Origin of Feceshttps://www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/the-origin-of-feces-333768'After thousands of years, the source of a particular piece of feces can be difficult to determine.' 'The archaeological record is littere

Hahaha my wiki page is now labeled as an advertisement. "Not neutral . How can she be paid to check integrity of others ??"Answer: I am not being paid.I

Woah, I found two other papers, from different institutes, with non-overlapping authors, that appear to have used the same colony formation assays.(short thread)https://twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest/status/1227818473541160960 Look at these three Figure