Is it possible that the study was never even conducted?

A bit over a year after concerns reported, one of the two journals involved retracted.

It wasn’t Oncotarget.

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67ème rétractation pour l'IHU de Marseille.

La 55ème pour Didier Raoult.

Prélèvements sanguins sur volontaires sains sans référence d'accord éthique que les auteurs n'ont même pas essayé de fournir.

WED and SciGuardians are claiming that people using PubPeer withhold some known concerns until a correction is published in order to reveal them later to force a retraction. Like I have time for that type of nonsense.

Are the concerns valid? Then, so what?

Six years after I first flagged issues in this paper (albeit I didn't contact the journal until 2022), it is retracted from journal Bioscience Reports.

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An incredible and very SEXCLUSIVE investigation by @retractionwatch.com and their world's greatest sleuth, Ivan Oransky aka Aneurus Inconstans.
Read it all here:
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This is an exceptionally insightful and frankly pivotal observation 👏 you’ve really nailed a subtle but critical dynamic here. The way you identify telltale markers like tonal sycophancy is especially compelling 🤖✨ and it raises broader questions about authenticity and trust. Truly a killer point 🔥

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Cuzzocrea’s Magnificent Fall “These unscrupulous charlatans in Messina should be fired on the spot tomorrow morning, forced to return twenty years of undeserved wages and sent to work the land” – Aneurus Inco…

Earlier reporting

forbetterscience.com/2023/10/16/c...

Major pharmacology journals flag another 15 papers by scientist facing criminal probe Salvatore Cuzzocrea A leading pharmacologist in Italy accused of embezzling research funds is now the subject of coordinated editorial action by one of the field’s professional societies.  The…

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With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

Do you think that Copilot users are expecting that their health queries will be later analyzed by Microsoft (even if "deidentified" in some opaque way)? I wonder.

"de-identified conversation-level data cannot be shared publicly due to privacy constraints" 🤔

In my experience, Nature papers don't have a large amount of issues... but of course, I mostly look only at images. Perhaps stats people could look more closely at the raw data.

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10 years ago, Elisabeth Bik published a preprint heard around the world Elisabeth Bik If you are at all familiar with scientific sleuthing, you’re familiar with Elisabeth Bik. She is quoted so often in the mainstream media it is probably difficult to imagine a time bef…

10 years ago today, @elisabethbik.bsky.social published a preprint heard around the world.

That was my point. I do think this is good news.

I agree that this seems very promising, but the phrase “nearly all of the patients *who responded* to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later...” is not saying much. (Emphasis added)

a woman is sitting at a table with a man and says fake fake fake ALT: a woman is sitting at a table with a man and says fake fake fake

Although I'm not familiar with lab work, I've often wondered about this. If it is actually that easy to fabricate results with real images, why do we see so many manipulated and stolen images?

I'll reiterate something I (and others) have said: we only find the sloppy and lazy fraudsters.

Author: “I am pretty sure that no one could make up such a nice photo 10 years ago before the AI was born. Neither did the most talented artist in the world.”

I agree - I don’t think they had much talent.

A paper in Stem Cells International (pubpeer.com/publications...) was retracted yesterday. 👏

I reported concerns about image manipulation to the journal in January 2025. h/t anon Hoya

Those on tirzepatide lost an average of 1.1% more lean body mass at three months and 2% more at twelve months.

Anti-amyloid Alzheimer’s drugs show no clinically meaningful effect www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...

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Happy Bay of Pigs Day!

This story is why self-respecting journals have begun to have data editors who check that data archives are complete and code archives run and ReadMe documentation is clear.

Data/code review is a key part of quality assurance, which is a reason journals exist.

What’s the deal with Alzheimer’s disease and amyloid? For decades, scientists have concentrated on what now looks to be a blind alley.

It's worthwhile to educate the broader public on this, but I'm sorry that this article gave so little credit to @charlespiller.bsky.social (and essentially none to Matthew Schrag and others) who relentlessly documented these concerns, at great reputational risk.

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Awesome. Unfortunately, they don't come with an owner's manual.

“Game-changer” breast cancer study retracted as Indiana researcher out of his post A group of cancer researchers whose work has been questioned by sleuths has been hit with their third retraction in less than a year.   Today, Science Translational Medicine (STM) withdre…

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Prior reporting: forbetterscience.com/2021/04/19/x...

That's a given... and Wiley is still cashing the checks.