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Matthias Wjst, md, prof, Munich — retired but let’s name it graduated — #molecular #epidemiology #imaging #ethics #integrity
- Maybe add transparency / auditability as distinct from veracity.
- Reposted by Science SurfGreat piece in the NYtimes with quotes from @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social and @sashagusevposts.bsky.social. The misuse of NIH datasets with sensitive personal information for racist aims should be concerning for anybody interested in scientific integrity. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
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- Reposted by Science SurfAnd just like that, the US has left the World Health Organization. Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard. www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...
- Reposted by Science SurfBMJ not yet prepared to retract this trial bit.ly/4jBjyIA bit.ly/4aLeQ8L Despite innumerable integrity issues, including repeating patterns of outcome data, see comment #16: bit.ly/3NxsSks
- A Controlled Descent into Pre-Enlightenment Healthcare
- 🧬 New Nature Medicine Comment from Jeffery K. Taubenberger, John H. Powers & Jay Bhattacharya outlines NIAID’s updated research vision, focusing on infectious diseases and immunology. Read here: ow.ly/Ymp550XY6Uy
- Reposted by Science SurfScience journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters
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- Reposted by Science SurfThere's the way Trump is gleefully happy to accept someone else's Nobel prize, and then there's the way Richard Feynman viewed Nobel prizes.
- Reposted by Science SurfWe have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol. It’s worse than you thought. Check it out, first in Inside Medicine… with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
- this seems to be the next big thing although it will become even harder to verify the information chain
- Reposted by Science SurfBillionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has revealed that he’s helping Francesca Gino, the honesty researcher who was fired from Harvard for research misconduct. “We will provide whatever resources she needs to clear her name,” he wrote. New from me: www.chronicle.com/article/an-i...
- Let‘s not forget many others from Leslie Florence to Widukind Lenz who was most instrumental in ending sales of Contergan web.archive.org/web/20190731...
- this seems to explain the blabla I received on my last submission
- We are approaching the deadline of the image forgery competition www.kaggle.com/competitions... with a clear leader. Can they keep the pace with new data?
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- Reposted by Science SurfPut pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer | www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- What about a DNP („do not publish“) database based on Clinical Trials post hoc registration? clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT073...
- Reposted by Science SurfA 2024 study found that ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence. Learn more: scim.ag/42nMvQJ #ScienceMagArchives
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- Reposted by Science SurfToday the Swiss announced they don't have an agreement with Springer Nature -- swissuniversity tried to secure a deal and failed in the face of the extreme rise in publishing fees. When the game is rigged, it's better to stop playing. 🧵 to understand the drain of scientific publishing👇
- Reposted by Science SurfDana-Farber Cancer Institute Agrees to Pay $15 Million to Settle Fraud Allegations Related to Scientific Research Grants. The relator [Sholto David] will receive $2,625,000 under today’s settlement. www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/d...
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- Reposted by Science SurfScientific evidence shows, once again, there is no causal link between vaccines and autism. Vaccines cause adults. - @drtedros.who.int
- So it is the same story like with the „hygiene hypothesis“ - fragmented and basically collapsed
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- Reposted by Science Surf"The challenges of communicating mathematical ideas to the general public are well-known. But what may be surprising to people outside the field is how little mathematicians themselves understand each other," writes Emily Riehl in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. scim.ag/3K5yukX
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- Reposted by Science SurfUKRI exploring use of AI in grant review - this will prompt debate but interested to know if people think it’d encourage novelty or the opposite? www.chemistryworld.com/news/ukri-op...
- Reposted by Science Surf🔴230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
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- I don't need all these accounts and messages too tonsky.me/blog/needy-p...
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- Reposted by Science SurfSummers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09) The grad is from China Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril" Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package bit.ly/3LHpin8
- There is a (not so) revolutionary proposal how to restore scientific integrity pubpeer.com/publications... which could turn a bad case into something good
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- Excellent summary with serious conclusions - forget diets and Wegovy but invest in prevention: better food for children in industrialized countries & creating neighborhoods where walking and cycling are prioritized over cars @kinderdok.bsky.social @adfc.de
- some unknown facts about COPE and scientific integrity drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com/2022/11/15/h...
- I have a good A3 candidate from the @nejm.org pubpeer.com/publications...
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- Reposted by Science Surf𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗗𝗡𝗔 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲?Excited to share our new study “Repair of DNA double-strand breaks leaves heritable impairment to genome function”, revealing DNA repair’s hidden cost, out now @science.org tinyurl.com/5n6zw3ye. Led by @sbantele.bsky.social and Jiri Lukas.🧵👇1/n
- You are allowed to photoshop cells, use fake bands, show wrong SEMs - and can "correct" it pubpeer.com/publications...
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- now she is running a start up - shameless called Manhattan Genomics www.wired.com/story/startu...
- In a new meta-analysis I show that the lower prevalence of allergic diseases at Bavarian farms depends on the sampling strategy. Farm versus non-farm introduced a stratification collider bias. Sorry to say, no protection at all, although a beautiful landscape www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
- Integrity arguments used as a weapon against integrity
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- Reposted by Science SurfEvidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely. buff.ly/UEtcRd4
- Reposted by Science SurfCompetition @kaggle.com: Scientific Image Forgery Detection Who can develop the best model to detect copy/move forgeries in biomedical images? #ImageForensics www.kaggle.com/competitions...
- Reposted by Science SurfIs science getting too competitive? Grant applications are skyrocketing and funding rates are decreasing. Yet the article in Nature fails to mention the potential role that AI/LLMs in driving up grant applications. It's becoming a lottery. www.nature.com/articles/d41...).
- interesting but too many armchair arguments
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- I had a wild dream tonight: someone actually sued the publisher of a fake scientific paper for “aiding and abetting fraud” - because they’d ignored her for over six months. And guess what? She won.
- Could not have written this paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... without NHANES www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...
- Reposted by Science SurfBig shakeup for NZ’s research funding – Expert Reaction
- Reposted by Science SurfNext time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
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- Reposted by Science SurfPope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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- Reposted by Science SurfBREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
