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Sep 11, 2026
Elisabeth BikGUEST
Some of them are a bit hidden, but I try to alert them.
Elisabeth BikGUEST
Then they can respond on Papir.
Elisabeth BikGUEST
Then at the same time, I will also send an email to the publisher or the journal editor where the paper had been published.
Elisabeth BikGUEST
so that the publisher then can initiate an investigation.
Bob McDonaldHOST
Well, over the summer a study came out that's shaking the very foundations of integrity in science.
Bob McDonaldHOST
Scientists analyzing many thousands of retracted and suspicious studies documented on sites like Retraction Watch and PubPeer have uncovered a widespread network of scientific fraud that threatens the very trust we have in science.
Bob McDonaldHOST
Dr. Reese Richardson led the work.
Bob McDonaldHOST
For him, this all started when he and a colleague began looking into why scientists decide to study certain genes.
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Reese RichardsonGUEST
So we had a few different case studies in how these things operate.
Reese RichardsonGUEST
One of those case studies had to do with looking at papers that share the same images in them when they shouldn't be sharing the same images.
Reese RichardsonGUEST
And a lot of these observations have been recorded on a site called PubPeer, where scientists can comment on any scientific article.
Reese RichardsonGUEST
So we used PubPeer comments to, uh, detail a network of more than 2,000 papers that all share images and thus probably all come from the same place.
Theo BakerGUEST
And then this is when colleagues say that, you know, as he begins to segue into positions of higher and higher acclaim, in the words of one, he becomes sort of royal, hands-off, distant from the day-to-day, that his lab culture begins to change, and this is when the problems begin to seep in.
Theo BakerGUEST
Of course, you know, th- these papers, some of which were published before I was even born, right, questions about some of these had existed on an anonymous forum called PubPeer going back to 2015, so seven years before I showed up on the story, and Marc Tessier-Lavigne had never publicly responded, and the journals had not corrected or retracted these papers.
Theo BakerGUEST
And the institution, Stanford, made him president in 2016, so he went through the vetting process, and these questions clearly were not fully addressed at that time.
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