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David Sanders, an image expert and biologist at Purdue University told us it “is indisputable” that the figure “derives from” the Tin Man Syndrome hoax paper. Aside from similarities within the image itself, Sanders pointed to the label in the upper right hand corner.

Part of that housing crisis, he said, stems from Purdue University's tuition freeze.
"It's a marketing gimmick. It's not a real approach to student affordability," Sanders said. "In order to pay for it, the universtiy ended up cutting in-state scholarships" www.jconline.com/story/news/l...

Second study using ‘Tin Man Syndrome’ X-ray under scrutiny following Retraction Watch inquiry An altered image posted as an April Fool’s joke (left) was used as a figure (right) in a 2021 paper in Scientific Programming. Just as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was the first of 14 books in …

Will Tin Man Syndrome continue to spread?
"David Sanders,an image expert&biologist at Purdue U told us it"is indisputable"that the figure“derives from the Tin Man Syndrome hoax paper""Sanders said the paper has even more flaws.The references are a mess" retractionwatch.com/2025/09/23/s...

Gun violence is bad. Free speech is good. PROVE ME WRONG!

Trump Announces Plan for $15 Billion Defamation Case Against NYT - Vision Times On Monday, Sept. 15 U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he has filed a $15 billion defamation and libel lawsuit against The New York Times.

Weird juxtaposition. "Croce also lost a defamation lawsuit against critic David Sanders (Purdue University) who was quoted in Times article/Judge:“discovery has proved existence of about 30 instances of fabrication or duplication” in Croce’s research papers."
www.visiontimes.com/2025/09/17/t...

Yes. That's why I included you on the post.

Fraudes científicos de este siglo (35): Carlo M. Croce: el timador timado - Juventud Técnica En 2024 se habían retractado 15 de sus publicaciones sobre oncología, cinco recibieron una ‘expresión de preocupación’ y 23 fueron corregidas.

A Cuban article on Carlo Croce @OhioState . It doesn't get all the facts correct, but it does include an image of @smutclyde.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social @forbetterscience.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social www.juventudtecnica.cu/articulos/fr...

David Sanders, an image expert and biologist at Purdue University who weighed in on the images in our previous story, told us from his experience, “when one finds egregious problems in one article it is probable that other articles from one or more of the authors also violate scientific norms.”

More true than ever. @forbetterscience.bsky.social

“Speed is essential, but it’s never too late to take appropriate action,” he says, recalling that “post-publication peer review is just as important as pre-publication peer review, and at least as good.” @forbetterscience.bsky.social

"It seems that the scientists at the NASA Astrobiology Institute remain in denial about the fact the infamous paper & the associated coverage was a tale of catastrophic failure in the institution of science at essentially every level." @forbetterscience.bsky.social

It's incredible that anyone would accept the "shadow biosphere" idea as anything but pseudoscience. @forbetterscience.bsky.social

Another retraction from DRG. @forbetterscience.bsky.social

Retraction from Douglas R. Green, former editor of Oncogene, and BFF of Carlo Croce. @forbetterscience.bsky.social

Retraction for Martinez et al., Microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 alpha (LC3)-associated phagocytosis is required for the efficient clearance of dead cells | PNAS Retraction for Martinez et al., Microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 alpha (LC3)-associated phagocytosis is required for the efficient cl...

I was recently notified about the following retraction by a friend. It joins another recent retraction from one of the authors, Douglas R. Green,
@stjude.bsky.social and numerous corrections (image duplication, etc.) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A fair amount of interest in this article. @forbetterscience.bsky.social

Leonid, Good to hear from you. I looked for you on Twitter to tag you but couldn't find you. I'm glad to see you here. Yes, there is no question that you highlighted FC. I'll include you in updates. The story about how the EEoC came about is a fascinating one.

Purdue says it worked with city amid parking, bus change debate The city of West Lafayette has expanded paid parking in phases this summer. Councilman David Sanders said Purdue created the situation while the university said they expanded parking and bus options.

“Purdue has created this situation by massively increasing the student population, by having insufficient housing and parking for the people on campus, and by now cutting its support for public transportation,” Sanders said. www.purdueexponent.org/city_state/p...

The other IOVS article with an Expression of Editorial Concern "Close examination reveals pixel-wise differences and do not allow us to draw a conclusion of duplication, although we also cannot rule out duplication/cloning." WRONG STANDARD iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
@retractionwatch.com

Finally, an expression of Editorial Concern for two
IOVS articles about which a number of us have been concerned because of image cloning iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... Persistence pays.

"But image expert and sleuth David Sanders told us the addendum is “inadequate in multiple senses.” While the correction applied to two proteins, the “problematic” data involve the expression of a third, he said."

‘No misconduct here’: Author defends addendum that sleuth says is ‘inadequate’ A 23-year-old paper has received an addendum for “possible inadvertent errors” in the figures. But a sleuth says the update doesn’t address issues with the work.  The 2002 paper, which describ…

“The argument that an image concerning protein expression somehow justifies thoroughly flawed images of RNA levels is absurd,” Sanders said. “extent & nature of the problems with the figures would,in my opinion, dictate that the article should have been retracted" retractionwatch.com/2025/08/25/n...

The ‘arsenic life’ paper’s retraction is good – but the process was poisonous The failings of peer reviewers, editors, journalists and authors led to a 15-year struggle to retract an article that should never have been published in the first place. But does the withdrawal of a ...

‪Real story behind retraction of @science.org arsenic-bacteria travesty"Tossed into the mix was the stubborn advocacy by Paul Davies of the existence of “shadow biosphere”on Earth/hypothesis enjoys neither evidence nor rationale" www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/arseni... @sarahscoles.bsky.social‬

The graphic used in the NASA press conference shows the arsenic completely replacing the phosphorus in the DNA (8:45) despite the complete absence of evidence for any incorporation of arsenate into the DNA.

The ‘arsenic life’ paper’s retraction is good – but the process was poisonous The failings of peer reviewers, editors, journalists and authors led to a 15-year struggle to retract an article that should never have been published in the first place. But does the withdrawal of a ...

the authors were aware of the problem,as illustrated by data in a supplementary table in their paper. But they were so enamored of their hypotheses that they wished it away & doubled down on the rigor of both their results & their interpretation of them www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/arseni...

Visa conflict unresolved for previously detained Purdue student Purdue student Yeonsoo Go was previously detained and released by ICE agents. She is still in litigation with Homeland Security over the validity of her visa.

David Sanders: "This approach to immigration from the government is "a waste of resources that has been placed into (ICE) instead of into social services," he said. "We need to understand the vicious and racist nature of these detentions and deportations." www.purdueexponent.org/campus/gener...

‘Tin Man Syndrome’ case plagiarized from hoax, sleuths say A comparison of the images and an overlay, provided by a sleuth. On April Fools’ Day 10 years ago, radiologist Matt Skalski took part in a website’s annual challenge to prank the radiology communit…

*Tin Man Syndrome* "In other words, “at least one other set of authors was taken in by the hoax,” Sanders said." @smutclyde.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social retractionwatch.com/2025/08/15/t...

It's been a busy week. After @retractionwatch.com receives a tip, I confirm plagiarism of a hoax & expand the investigation to other articles.“The overlap in the images otherwise is so extensive as to be impossible to represent different patients,” They like my use of the word "irrefragably."

Many thanks. I really appreciate the words of support from someone like you.

Impact factors and h-indices are nonsense metrics used by lazy administrators to make decisions.