Yes, apparently copying gel images is fairly common. And the folks who do it don't give much thought to how easy it is to detect, by skilled human eye or by co

Yes, apparently copying gel images is fairly common. And the folks who do it don't give much thought to how easy it is to detect, by skilled human eye or by computer. 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... https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/health/dana-farber-cancer-studies-retractions.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/health/dana-farber-cancer... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/us/stanford-president-resigns-tessier-lavigne.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/us/stanford-president-res... I should say, when I learned about Elisabeth Bik it was a revelation because I never thought other people saw copy patterns in papers, although I always assumed it just happened accidentally (I've run gels before and the whole process is terribly manual and prone to mistakes).