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Molecular biology has a big problem with people faking results. Even when the fakery is pointed out, journals are very, very slow to do anything about this. El
by kens 5y ago
Molecular biology has a big problem with people faking results. Even when the fakery is pointed out, journals are very, very slow to do anything about this.
Elizabeth Bik has put a lot of work into finding faked images in published papers. Her Twitter feed is pretty entertaining; she presents images and challenges reader to find the duplications.
https://twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest https://twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest
For more, see Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01363-z https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01363-z