[science] Fraud, So Much Fraud
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/fraud-so-much-fraud
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41672599

* Eliezer Masliah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Masliah
* 2016+ head of Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging
* 800 research papers
* scientific publication record over past 25 years shows multiple, widespread, blatant instances of fraud

COMMENT: HUGELY egregious/impactful

#AAAS #NIH #NIA #neuroscience#academia #science #publishing #AcademicPublishing
#EliezerMasliah #AcademicFraud #FraudulentScience #fraud #deception

In the last day: 🤔

[2024-Sep-25] Ahmed Abbas
Data integrity concerns by 1 coauthor flagged in 130 women’s health papers
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02907-3

Concerns about data integrity across 263 papers by 1 author
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468784724000722

* some of the studies incl. in analyses that could inform clinical practice

[2024-Sep-26] Top NIH official Eliezer Masliah manipulated Alzheimer's & Parkinson’s studies for decades
https://www.science.org/content/article/research-misconduct-finding-neuroscientist-eliezer-masliah-papers-under-suspicion

* prominent neuroscientist

#AcademicFraud #FraudulentScience

[thread] fraudulent science | pseudoscience
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience

* statements, beliefs, practices that claim to be both scientific & factual but are incompatible with the scientific method

#academia #science #publishing #AcademicPublishing #fraud #deception #FraudulentScience #ResumePadding #PredatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishing #pseudoscience

Prevalence of Problematic Papers in Non-Coding RNA Research
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.28.607530v1?rss=1

* prevalence of problematic papers in field of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) research
* 1.79% retracted; 5.68% raised concerns on PubPeer
* unreliable papers widely disseminated
* hundreds of thousands citations
* significant threat to research integrity / public health

#biology #MolecularBiology #MolecularGenetics #PeerReview #PubPeer #AcademicPublishing #AcademicJournals #RNA #ncRNA #FraudulentScience #JunkScience

Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06185-8

https://web.archive.org/web/20230106140332/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06185-8

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https://fermatslibrary.com/s/the-scientists-who-publish-a-paper-every-five-days#email-newsletter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ioannidis
Oy! Accomplished academic / tracker of scientific fraud YET "John Ioannidis has been a prominent opponent of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic." 🤨 😠

#AcademicPublishing #FraudulentScience #PredatoryJournals #JohnIoannidis #ScientificFraud #PaperMills