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Her site is: https://scienceintegritydigest.com/about/ https://scienceintegritydigest.com/about/ https://scienceintegritydigest.com/ https://scienceintegritydigest.com/ She wrote an op-ed in the NYT last year: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/science-fraud-image-manipulation-photoshop.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/scien... She says her work has led to 938 papers being retracted. One of the interesting parts to me is that most of her work seems to be completely manual. She seems to have an eye for seeing photoshop on microscopy images or images of gels. The biggest method of fraud that she seems to find is researchers cutting and pasting from one image to another, for example, the scientist runs a gel but the results don't work out the way they hoped, so they paste in a line from another gel to make the experiment look like it worked. The uncomfortable part is that this is just one of many ways that you could fabricate or alter research results, and Dr. Bik is only one person finding it in her spare time. Probably a whole lot of fraud goes undetected.

crtified 3y ago
> One of the interesting parts to me is that most of her work seems to be completely manual. She seems to have an eye for seeing photoshop [...] Brings to mind the skills of the 'super recogniser'. Perhaps her manual work involves similar aptitude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_recogniser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_recogniser -- Later edit: Indeed, the NYT article mentions - "Since childhood, I’ve been “blessed” with what I’m told is a better-than-average ability to spot repeating patterns. It’s a questionable blessing when you’re focused more on the floor tiles than on the person you’re supposed to talk to. However, this ability, combined with my — what some might call obsessive — personality, helped me when hunting duplications in scientific images by eye." - Elisabeth Bik
- aziaziazi 3y ago
  She also use a computer to double check her findings, from GP link: > Most duplications were confirmed by ImageTwin.
chakintosh 3y ago
What the hell!? This is insanity! > https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2023/06/27/concerns-about-12-md-anderson-cancer-centers-pathology-papers/#more-3243 https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2023/06/27/concerns-about...
- nashashmi 3y ago
  It is. And should make you double think before you do the same photoshopping. They are watching us.

crtified 3y ago

> One of the interesting parts to me is that most of her work seems to be completely manual. She seems to have an eye for seeing photoshop [...] Brings to mind the skills of the 'super recogniser'. Perhaps her manual work involves similar aptitude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_recogniser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_recogniser -- Later edit: Indeed, the NYT article mentions - "Since childhood, I’ve been “blessed” with what I’m told is a better-than-average ability to spot repeating patterns. It’s a questionable blessing when you’re focused more on the floor tiles than on the person you’re supposed to talk to. However, this ability, combined with my — what some might call obsessive — personality, helped me when hunting duplications in scientific images by eye." - Elisabeth Bik

aziaziazi 3y ago
She also use a computer to double check her findings, from GP link: > Most duplications were confirmed by ImageTwin.

chakintosh 3y ago

What the hell!? This is insanity! > https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2023/06/27/concerns-about-12-md-anderson-cancer-centers-pathology-papers/#more-3243 https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2023/06/27/concerns-about...

nashashmi 3y ago
It is. And should make you double think before you do the same photoshopping. They are watching us.