An expert criticism by fraudsters and antivaxxers: the case of PubPeer
“A concerning trend is the rise of “hyper-skepticism”” – ChatGPT
Tag: post-publication peer review
The Fribourg Declaration
“The papermill crisis is not an external attack on science but a mirror held up to its dysfunctional ecosystem. The for-profit publishing industry, posing as a newly found saviour of research integrity, is in fact its chief beneficiary and enabler.” – Csaba Szabo
Aguzzi and the Lowlifes
The prion researcher Adriano Aguzzi used to describe his Pubpeer critics as “lowlifes”, and himself as a victim of a lynch mob. But after Elisabeth Bik helped him find even more mistakes in his papers, Aguzzi changed his stance.
Help with another? Not on PubPeer yet
This guest post by pseudonymous Cheshire, shows that everyone can become an image integrity sleuth. You don’t need to be a scientist, just use common sense and some Twitter advice
Preprinters of the World Unite
The following is a rant in praise of preprints. I blog of usefulness of preprints, open science and open access, how BioRxiv works and their Plan U.
Jessus investigator identity leaked, CNRS President to expose whistleblowers
An update to the ongoing cartoon Stalinism propaganda and purge activities at the EU largest research institution, the French CNRS,Continue Reading
Fishy peer review at Science, by citizen scientist Ted Held
Sweden and the international research community recently faced yet another research misconduct scandal. It was about a Science paper byContinue Reading
Chocolate health: advice by Thomas Lüscher and peer review by Jonas Malmstedt
Christmas season is the time to eat lots of chocolate. And as science teaches us, your confectionery is actually theContinue Reading
Post-publication peer review of a multimillion-dollar-heavy Nature paper
Is GPC1 from serum exosomes a marker to diagnose pancreatic cancer?
The smelly compost heap of plant-based nanoparticles
A gang of Indian nanotechnology scientists, allegedly from Annamalai University in India, placed in 2014-2015 several papers in different journals,Continue Reading
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