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Elisabeth Bik
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Elisabeth Bik
@MicrobiomDigest
Science integrity consultant, PhD. #ImageForensics
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- Vaccines work. Despite what thousands of paid Twitter blue checks might want you to believe, vaccines work. ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-b…
- I am ringing the alarm. We have now found >400 papers that all share a very similar title layout, graph layout, and (most importantly) the same Western blot layout. This is a massive #PaperMill of (what we assume) fabricated data.
- Someone in Ohio is shedding new strain of COVID into sewers, professor says Johnson, with the help of his Twitter followers and U.S. Census data, have narrowed down the list of possible infected people to about 1,600
- The punishment for science misconduct is …. nothing. All these men are still running labs / paid professors.List of high-level Alzheimer's researchers accused of credible fraud:🧵 #1 - Marc Tessier-Lavigne Genentech pointed out problems in his 2009 Nature paper in 2012. After an expose by @tab_delete, he had to resign from Stanford Presidency, but can still run lab and do research.
- A new thread about a series of papers in legitimate scientific journals, all from the same author. These papers have all been peer-reviewed, but no editor or peer reviewer noticed a huge problem. Warning: this might make your jaw drop.
- Today, I present to you The Paper With More References Than Words. It has 182 words and 212 references. All references are from the first author. Who works at a university that does not appear to exist.
- I am so, so, so grateful for this incredible honour. Thank you so much @senseaboutsci and @SpringerNature ❤️The John Maddox Prize 2021 goes to Elisabeth Bik, @MicrobiomDigest, Microbiologist and Science Integrity Consultant @SpringerNature
- Delighted that this paper cites one of my first papers (1991)! As an undergraduate student, I discovered this weird repeat - I honestly thought I had made some dumb mistake. We had no idea what this repetitive sequence was. #CRISPRThis Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
- From a paper published in @Nature yesterday by @harvardmed scientists. I just reported it to the EiC, with shaking hands and pounding heart because scary to see that this passed #peerreview and editorial screening in such a high impact journal.
- Much excitement about the paper on #Hydroxychloroquine treatment of #COVID19 patients. 20 treated patients all seemed to eliminate virus fast. But 4 patients who did worse (one died) were left off. See my comments @PubPeer: pubpeer.com/publications/3…
- AI can be used to make convincing looking fake data. There is no way we can distinguish real from fake anymore. It is safe to assume that genAI has already resulted in many fake papers. Scientific publishing is not prepared for this.Generative AI fraud example by me. The rightmost column of tumors was created by AI using the first 6 (supposedly) real ones. Time required: 30 seconds.
- If professors keep doxxing and insulting me, instead of addressing the concerns I raised in their papers, that must mean they are sick with fear. I will not stop what I am doing, @IHU_Marseille
![Screenshot from my direct messages.
Someone asked:
"I am, Dr. [XXX] Program Director of PROBIOTICS NUTRITION CONFERENCE 2023. We are organizing the 4th International Conference on Probiotics and Nutrition on September September 13-14, 2023 Rome, Italy. Would you like to participate?"
My answer:
" am not working on Probiotics at all, but if you pay for my flight, hotel, conference fee, and a honorarium of EUR 2000 I would be happy to give a keynote talk about Predatory Conferences."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1gzp4ZX0AMUEQa.png)
