I'm no longer surprised by problems in @acm.org papers, but these two PubPeer comments deserve a special mention:
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pubpeer.com/publications...
The author in common in both self-plagiarism cases is... the ACM CEO. Oops.
27.11.2025 20:26 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Safe travels! 💚
27.11.2025 02:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
26.11.2025 20:54 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
For the curious: pubpeer.com/publications...
26.11.2025 20:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Is it just me or if multiple data errors, issues images are reused within a paper, and across *two* other papers, a sign that a correction is not appropriate.
26.11.2025 20:49 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The blots in the paper are overexposed and pretty low resolution. I can't point to any that have definitively been manipulated, but a few are very similar and may have been duplicated.
26.11.2025 16:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good grief.
Some of the most special memories I have of my family's involvement with a foreign exchange program through the University of Washington was taking these PhD students up into Mount Rainier National Park. Some had really never walked in the snow before.
26.11.2025 02:45 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I can take a look tomorrow. Don't know if my particular "talents" as such, will be useful.
26.11.2025 02:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Very small variability of the means across groups looks odd.
25.11.2025 02:47 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I find these message very frustrating.
24.11.2025 18:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New COSIG guide!
24.11.2025 16:13 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
After 4 years, the Wiley journal Macromolecular Symposia retracted this "paper."
pubpeer.com/publications... h/t anon Hoya.
24.11.2025 17:55 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
How can this happen in 2024? It’s almost like the big publishers care more about profits than the quality of their product.
24.11.2025 05:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fun times.
Some of the SciGuardians gang thinks posting nonsensical comments on the Retraction Watch site will accomplish something. These people never progressed beyond playground taunts.
retractionwatch.com/2025/11/21/e...
24.11.2025 05:27 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Oopsies.
A 2024(!) travesty of a paper courtesy of @elsevierconnect.bsky.social's Translational Oncology journal and researchers in China.
pubpeer.com/publications...
23.11.2025 18:01 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Sabine Hazan conflates her case studies as proof that her hypotheses work. Even if those studies were flawless (ed: they’re not) they can only show correlation not causation: suffering from these conditions may lead to gut dysbiosis rather than the other way around.
21.11.2025 16:59 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
My paper about the ScienceGuardians on @themeta.news today!
@elisabethbik.bsky.social @lonnibesancon.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social
21.11.2025 10:58 — 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Research linking gut microbes to autism is deeply flawed, critics say
Amid growing investment in the field, a new paper argues it rests on shaky foundations
Studies of fecal bacteria have led some researchers to propose a link between the gut microbiome and autism.
But a new paper argues the claim rests on shaky foundations. https://scim.ag/48lckEh
19.11.2025 17:21 — 👍 45 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 1
Thanks.
Feel free to add your two cents to the thread. 💚
19.11.2025 07:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Opinions please?
There's a duplicated ß-actin band (green).
The author replies, "Because Smad3 is already the right loading control for p-Smad3, thus the last beta-actin is not necessary and we will contact the journal for removal."
Is this legit? 😕
pubpeer.com/publications...
19.11.2025 06:22 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
I'm on the shoe team.
👠
19.11.2025 05:56 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
86% seems really high…
to someone that doesn’t have any domain knowledge ➡️ 😸
19.11.2025 02:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Superhero!
18.11.2025 06:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Title slide: What to do next.
Ivan "Pure Evil"* Oransky
Co-founder Retraction Watch
(social media handles)
"99.4% evil, 0.6% Zinfandel, but the (faked) error bars are quite large
The speaker
After the tea break, we continue with Session 7: 'Publication problems', co-chaired by @jabyrnesci.bsky.social and David Vaux.
Ivan Oransky @retractionwatch.com will talk about 'Summing up: What to do next?'
If a headline is a question, the answer is no!
#IRICSydney
18.11.2025 04:18 — 👍 32 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
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