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Oh, come on, @[email protected] Science Translational Medicine, correcting a paper for a photoshopped image? That is absolutely bonkers, and you should do much, much better. #ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics

Instead of investigating properly, the journal issued a *corrigendum* 😱 "The authors regret that Figure 3D were mistakenly uploaded - corrections do not affect the conclusion." The original figure was simply replaced with a completely different set of images😭 #ThisImageIsFine

1. They did not catch the repetitive areas in the original figure 2. They did not address the PubPeer concerns about photoshopping with a retraction - instead, they allowed the authors to replace all panels 😡 3. They did not check if the new panels were ok. #ThisImageIsFine

Spot the two overlaps and you might win an Emoji Award! Each panel is from a differently treated rat, so there should not be any overlaps. #ImageForensics #ThisImageIsFine #ScientificPublishing

It's a beauty! Can you spot the problems here? Find at least two for your chance of winning one of the three Emoji Awards. #ImageForensics #ThisImageIsFine #ScientificPublishing

An easy one today. Four TEM photos, four different formulations of 'quantum dots'. Can you spot the unexpected overlap? #ImageForensics #ThisImageIsFine #ScientificPublishing

Can you spot all three overlaps? #ImageForensics #ThisImageIsFine #ScientificPublishing

A nice and easy #ImageForensics challenge, sent to me by a reader. Can you spot the problem here? #ThisImageIsFine #ScientificPublishing

There are two sets of overlapping panels in this figure. Can you spot them both? Each panel is a differently treated rat. #ImageForensics #ThisImageIsFine #ScientificPublishing

Two sets of panels look identical, and another set of panels overlaps. Can you spot at least two of the three problems here? #ImageForensics #ThisImageIsFine #ScientificPublishing

After yesterday's very hard challenge, I will give you a super easy one. Can you spot the duplication? #ImageForensics #ThisImageIsFine #ScientificPublishing

No replies yet.... It is a hard one! Hint: focus on the bottom right panel - there is something unexpected going on there. #ThisImageIsFine #ScientificPublishing #ImageForensics

A pretty hard #ImageForensics. Can you spot the duplication? #ThisImageIsFine #ScientificPublishing

Despite clear evidence of image manipulation, @[email protected]'s BBRC did not retract the paper. Instead, authors were allowed to submit a new, “clean” set of figures. This response seriously undermines research integrity. #ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics pubpeer.com/publications...

The second #retraction for the group of Kalipada Pahan at @[email protected], with findings by @[email protected] and myself. 36 of his papers have made it to @[email protected]. Kudos to @[email protected]. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... pubpeer.com/publications... #ImageForensics #ThisImageIsFine

This is a nice #ImageForensics. So far, I have found three problems in this paper. Can you spot at least two? #ThisImageIsFine

A nice #ImageForensics for those who are still behind a screen. Can you spot a problem - or two - here? #ThisImageIsFine

Neuroscience, a @[email protected] journal, thought it was totally acceptable to rearrange the loading control bands a bit. Correction: "The authors regret [...] the β-actin lanes were inadvertently misassembled, resulting in an incorrect lane order." #ThisImageIsFine pubpeer.com/publications...

Retraction @[email protected] 👏 of a paper by researchers from the School of Dentistry at UCLA. Senior researcher gave a long explanation @[email protected] that did not seem to make much sense. Journal did not buy it, thankfully. pubpeer.com/publications... #ImageForensics #ThisImageIsFine

An interesting PubPeer discussion. Senior author and Professor at @[email protected] claims these bands and cells are not similar at all! #ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics Thanks @[email protected] for providing the animations. pubpeer.com/publications...

#ImageForensics #ThisImageIsFine #ResearchIntegrity Spot the overlapping panels! Three time points, four treatments, but are all 12 panels from different animals? You tell me!

The Medical University of South Carolina Research Integrity Officer and Committee concluded that "human error in regards to organization and record keeping of original images was the cause for this mistake." How the heck can this be caused by a mistake? #ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics

An ugly "stealth correction" at @[email protected]'s Hum Vaccin Immunother of a paper from authors at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda. They just removed the overlapping image panels 😱 #ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics pubpeer.com/publications...

Can you spot some unexpected duplications? A through D are four differently treated rats. #ImageForensics #ResearchIntegrity #ThisImageIsFine #ScientificPublishing

#ImageForensics #ResearchIntegrity #ThisImageIsFine #ScientificPublishing Can you spot something unexpected? Hint: find the overlapping panels

Still laughing about this a year later. #ThisImageIsFine researcher meme stash submission for @[email protected]

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#ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics Neurobiology of Aging issues a correction, completely ignoring the serious concerns in Figure 5. @[email protected], can you please take a better look at the issues pointed out in this PubPeer thread? This should be a retraction. pubpeer.com/publications...

I often wonder how grown-up people, full professors even, can make such statements with such confidence, while the evidence appears to be staring them in the face. #ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics #Academia #ResearchIntegrity

“the concerns pertaining to figs. 3, 4, and 5 which remain outstanding are unlikely to impact the wider conclusions of the article” WHAT MORE is needed to impact an editor’s conclusion? At least, an EoC was issued. HT: @[email protected] #ResearchIntegrity #ThisImageIsFine #Academia

Like me, you might be frustrated at the amount of overlapping and photoshopped images in science papers that we sleuths are finding. But what is even more frustrating is the lack of response and action from journals. Here is a thread with some outrageous examples. #ThisImageIsFine /