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We ran our image duplication detection system on 1,000 papers. The papers 1. have one author who has a retraction according to @RetractionWatch, 2. are not retracted, and 3. have no image-related @PubPeer comments. We use AI to screen findings & suppress false positives... (1/3)
PSA if you are a researcher in the social sciences -- apply to attend @I4Replication's Replication Games -- they are being held in three cities this year!!
curcumin is one of the most notorius pan-assay interference compounds, a fact many researchers seem to turn their eyes away from
Another epic curcumin fraud, this time based in Germany. I would like to propose that curcumin should be studied as a potential cause of scientific misconduct. Is there something in the spice?
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"Modern Scientific Sleuths: A Brief (and Incomplete) History" by our cofounders.
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FORRT has released the FORRT Open Research Extension (ORE) plugin for Chrome or Edge browswers - as you browse it lets you know if a paper you're looking at has replications, PubPeer comments, or retractions! MO replications will be included in soon! => forrt.org/chromium-extension…
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PSA for DC-area folks -- I'll be speaking Mon Nov 9th in DC about "Forensic Metascience for Policymakers: How AI Can Clean Up the Scientific Record"
Thank you @monsieurwagner for hosting! RSVP here:
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Today I'm posting a new video to my YouTube Channel. Persistent misnaming of 17-OHPC as "progesterone" in medical literature lead to pregnant women receiving the wrong drug through compounding pharmacies: youtu.be/I1C9aDfLH-U
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New paper: "AI Article Reviews Dominate Human Peer Reviews at Their Best: Evidence and Policy Choices" See: GaryKing.org/peerless. with Steven Worthington. Comments welcome!
PDF here gking.harvard.edu/files/peer…
Every paper should be thoroughly audited and reviewed by a highly advanced AI system (not Gemini Flash!!) equipped with forensic metascience tools, and all errors it finds should be fixed **before** publication.
Massive. New Harvard study finds that AI-written paper reviews now beat the best human peer reviews on every measure the authors tested.
Peer review is slow and often misses errors. Earlier studies concluded AI should only assist human reviewers, not replace them.
They used 134 reviews from rapidPeer, a Harvard service that pays expert reviewers well. Claude Opus 4.8 reviewed the same 1124 papers, and GPT-5.5 plus 3 former journal editors judged the pairs blind.
GPT-5.5 picked the AI review in all 132 decided pairs, and the editors picked it 87% of the time. Only 5.5% of the AI's claims about the paper were wrong, versus 15.9% for the human reviews.
Teams that depend on expert critique can now let AI do the first full review pass, and keep a human for the final decision.
New on our YouTube - Metascience Observatory founder Dan Elton (@moreisdifferent) explains our fetchpdf package for downloading PDFs legally. In many cases you can download XML when you can't get a PDF & then convert the XML to a PDF!
pip install fetchpdf
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love to see it!
Director Michael Kratsios joins @nytimes's "Interesting Times" podcast with @tylercowen to discuss the Trump Administration's reform of American science
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Derek Lowe mentioned my preprint in his "In the Pipeline" series which is very cool - big fan of his writing! science.org/content/blog-pos…
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I recorded a little video this morning explaining the fetchpdf Python package I've been working on. One of the cool things I learned is many publishers offer XML (JATS) even if they don't make available a PDF (bc paywalls). With fetchpdf you can get the xml and convert to PDF!
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Today I am sharing a new preprint and accompanying blog post. Hundreds of published papers include impossible western blots showing protein expression in cell lines that have deleted or mutated genes. These clumsy mistakes are widespread and repeated by LLMs.
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Cell Press investigating editor-in-chief accused of soliciting bribes from authors.
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Will is doing excellent work on making it easier to run clinical trials in the US!
Dr. Willy Chertman of @HHSgov joins the Science: A New Golden Age Summit to discuss metascience and the process of improving scientific policy in the federal government.
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Dr. Willy Chertman of @HHSgov joins the Science: A New Golden Age Summit to discuss metascience and the process of improving scientific policy in the federal government.
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This is a big one - Opus 5.5's explainer for the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 👀
I had it do a deep dive into the history of optogenetics. The video covers the contributions of Boyden, Pan, Deisseroth, Nagel, Hegemann, Bamberg, Miesenböck, Zhang, and 15 others..