Links. Tweets. Photos (Week 2022.30)
Links of the Week
In theory, science is self-correcting. In practice, even a single malicious actor can cause millions to be misspent and progress to be delayed by over a decade (Fraud in Alzheimer’s research); Derek Lowe is (as always) worth reading on this, including this tidbit:
But some of these later Lesné papers had been flagged on the PubPeer site for potential image doctoring, and the Science report linked to in the first paragraph of this blog details the efforts of neuroscientist Matthew Schrag at Vanderbilt to track these things down. He was originally hired by two other neuroscientists who also sell biopharma stocks short…
How do we fund quality control in science? is a perennial question and short-selling is as good of an answer as any.
“Blue zones” (areas where people live exceptionally long lives) are probably just a result of fraud and bad record keeping.
Listerine was named after Dr. Lister and that is not even the most interesting thing I learned reading about it.