Good morning from Chicago! We will start Day 3 (last day) of the 10th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication. @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social / peerreviewcongress.org/peer-review-… #PRC10 <— This hashtag will give you all the posts! You can also click on this feed, created by @retropz.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/did:… [Day 1] and [Day 2]. Opening It’s 8 am … Continue reading "Peer Review Congress Chicago – Day 3"| Science Integrity Digest
[Day 1] [Day 3] Good morning from Chicago, where we are getting ready for Day 2 of the 10th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication. peerreviewcongress.org / @peerreviewcon…| Science Integrity Digest
It’s Peer Review Week! A perfect time to post my notes from the 10th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication, which was held at the Swissôtel in Chicago, two weeks ag…| Science Integrity Digest
“Patients with provocative entrail illness unclassified gave to crisis division a 3-day history of sickness, retching, migraine and irregular stomach torment alongside discontinuous ridiculous stools as of late.” If you cannot wrap your brain around this sentence, don’t worry. Neither can I. Tortured phrases The wording is full of tortured phrases, a specific way of … Continue reading "Discontinuous ridiculous stools – a preprint full of tortured phrases and stolen data"| Science Integrity Digest
Today, 25 July 2025, a preprint was posted claiming that significant gene expression changes were found in individuals with new-onset cancer and other diseases after receiving mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, compared to healthy individuals. A preprint is a non-peer reviewed manuscript – a study or hypothesis that has not yet been evaluated by other scientists. These … Continue reading "Preprint claiming that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines cause transcriptomic dysregulation is deeply flawed"| Science Integrity Digest
It is hard to find the time to post here. I’m getting lots of requests to help scanning papers for image problems, and am also traveling a lot to give talks and be in panels. So my ‘mon…| Science Integrity Digest
On Twitter/X, @SciGuardians, associated with the website ScienceGuardians.com, is promising to ‘uncover’ some big conspiracy of fraudulent @pubpeer.com users. But in reality, the accoun…| Science Integrity Digest
Apologies for not posting for a while. Fall 2024 was a busy time for me, with travel to give talks in Australia and Singapore and some events in the US. Instead of trying to catch up with everythin…| Science Integrity Digest
An overview of general news and articles about science integrity and some cases that I have worked on. Science sleuths Neuroscientist and top NIH official under scrutiny Q-Collar under scrutiny Nobel prize winner under scrutiny Paper Mills New ORI regulations The US Office of Research Integrity updated its regulations on handling research misconduct allegations. Key … Continue reading "Science Integrity Digest, September 2024"| Science Integrity Digest
Your monthly digest of science integrity news. General Science Integrity News Sleuthing Legal threats for science critics Federal and institutional investigations Publishers taking action Games Artificial intelligence and science New Publication and Editorials Retraction Watch’s Weekend Reads:| Science Integrity Digest
A review article with some obviously fake and non-scientific illustrations created by Artificial Intelligence (AI) was the talk on X (Twitter) today. The figures in the paper were generated by the …| Science Integrity Digest
