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“It’s the Websters. They say there’s some pitiful thing dying of thirst out their way, and would we like to come over?”

“It’s the Websters. They say there’s some pitiful thing dying of thirst out their way, and would we like to come over?”

I’m deeply honored to have been named as the recipient of the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting from the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. It recognizes my work on scientific integrity for Science Magazine over the last five years. 1/7 tinyurl.com/zz54fzyr

Thank you Charles, and congratulations! 🎉

Roxanne Styx @roxannestyx.bsky.social IVERMECTIN and CHLORINE DIOXIDE Testimonial - Farmer clears his Lung Cancer, leaving his surgeons dumbfounded DR. WILLIAM MAKIS MD JUNE 3 June 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM

The grifters have entered Bluesky.

Makis reckons he can sell bleach with his parasitic drug… for cancer

#QuackMakis #Noncologist

Oopsies.

Courtesy of @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social journal Cells and researchers from University of Nottingham and De Montfort University Leicester. Paper has already been corrected once.
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Weekend reads: Science publishing a ‘hot mess’; AI microscopy ‘indistinguishable’ from real; social media as a bellwether for retractions Duke scientists lose eight papers for alleged image manipulation Sleuth unearths citation, authorship issues at earth sciences journal Former student who ran paper mill up to 11 retractions Journal…

Weekend reads: Science publishing a ‘hot mess’; AI microscopy ‘indistinguishable’ from real; social media as a bellwether for retractions

Schneider Shorts 3.10.2025 – A waste of everyone’s time Schneider Shorts 3.10.2025 – Epstein and his academic friends, a Texas kleptomaniac, German professor innocent again,with an advice for PubPeer community, Scandinavian retractions, and finall…

Happy Friday to all who celebrate.

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A principled leader? @weldeiry embarrassingly regurgitates press releases for "likes." But he has no engagement on social media... what's the point?

Plus: why did he invite @SabinehazanMD to @WIN_Consortium 2025? She has more retractions than he does.

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The Problem with Inadequately Reviewed Fringe Science | Skeptical Inquirer Skeptics usually recognize pseudoscience when we see it. Our heuristics include an assessment of the qualifications and reputations of an idea’s proponents ...

A good summary of the YDIH mess by @boslough.bsky.social.

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October 3, 2025 See you at the MVIF 42! Human gut microbiomeMicro-scale spatial metagenomics: revealing high-resolution spatial biogeography of gut microbiomes – Carlotta Pietroni – bioRxiv Animal microbiomeCaptur…

New #MicrobiomeDigest is OUT microbiomedigest.com/2025/10/02/o...

• Shanghai dog microbiome / @annacusco.bsky.social
• microbetag / @hariszaf.bsky.social
• invitation for the #MVIF 42 / @microbiomevif.bsky.social

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Yes, yes, Europe has its benefits. Walkable cities. Cultural heritage. Amazing food. Little gun violence. Healthcare. Governments that are not shut down. But the number of website pop-ups asking one to accept cookies renders the continent pretty much unlivable.

I think the idea was interesting, but they made some odd choices that make their results somewhat questionable. I think they used an LLM to write the paper. One possible clue: Delve.

Former student who ran paper mill up to 11 retractions Sameer Quazi A former bioinformatics student who operated a paper mill while at the University of Manchester has lost another paper, bringing his total to 11 retractions.  Sameer Quazi had bee…

A former bioinformatics student who operated a paper mill while at the University of Manchester has lost another paper, bringing his total to 11 retractions.

I don’t see that the comment on paperstars violates any PubPeer moderation rules, although it is rather generic. Example: the comment about the study design is probably correct, but no specific examples were provided.

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I have just left a lengthy Pubpeer comment on the autism/Tylenol study being cited by the Trump administration. There appear to be a number of fairly straightforward errors in the paper.

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One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

Can you share an example of a comment that was not accepted on PubPeer that was published on Paperstars?

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@elisabethbik.bsky.social

This is a fascinating story.

A Lebanese team published a study showing massive benefits for apple cider vinegar in 2024. People immediately noticed it was problematic, and complained.

BMJ asked the authors for the data, and they sent it through. The study has just been retracted and WOW 1/n

They basically say this themselves.

The Problem with Inadequately Reviewed Fringe Science | Skeptical Inquirer Skeptics usually recognize pseudoscience when we see it. Our heuristics include an assessment of the qualifications and reputations of an idea’s proponents ...

A good summary of the YDIH mess by @boslough.bsky.social.

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There's more.

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A question that I get all the time. I often think the same to myself. We will not be able to understand their motivation & yet should still retract these papers rigorously.
For example this one: Rofeal et al. 2023 (DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2022.11.080) pubpeer.com/publications...

Taylor & Francis threatens legal action against anonymous group’s ‘highly defamatory’ claims Taylor & Francis has threatened legal action against an online group that has made allegations, based largely on vague insinuations rather than evidence, about the publisher and a member of its…

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Via @retractionwatch.com

Schneider Shorts 26.09.2025 – We will take serious clown action against you Schneider Shorts 26.09.2025 – Why papermilling is good: perspectives from university’s legal counsel in Denmark, Nobel laureate and his mentee in UK, Pakistani scholars in Poland, with …

Happy Friday to those who celebrate!
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Keep fish and seals and cetaceans out of the sea - they injure the pollutants.

I’ve never even heard of this list. What’s it used for? Bragging rights?