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Dominique Baker
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Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv She/Her www.dominiquebaker.com/ (I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
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My day is bananas so I'm sneaking reads of the news between meetings and good golly miss molly this is wild www.science.org/content/arti...

Screenshot of article that reads: But over the past 2 years questions have arisen about some of Masliah’s research. A Science investigation has now found that scores of his lab studies at UCSD and NIA are riddled with apparently falsified Western blots—images used to show the presence of proteins—and micrographs of brain tissue. Numerous images seem to have been inappropriately reused within and across papers, sometimes published years apart in different journals, describing divergent experimental conditions. After Science brought initial concerns about Masliah’s work to their attention, a neuroscientist and forensic analysts specializing in scientific work who had previously worked with Science produced a 300-page dossier revealing a steady stream of suspect images between 1997 and 2023 in 132 of his published research papers. (Science did not pay them for their work.)
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Very hard to blame the "rogue research assistant" on this one

Screenshot of article that reads: MASLIAH IS THE SOLE common author on every paper in the dossier, usually taking the first or last position in multiauthor articles. Those positions imply he did the majority of the publication’s work or bears primary responsibility for it, although the others contributed. Several of the neuroscientists who reviewed the dossier say it seems implausible that Masliah was duped by a colleague. “Given the extended time frame and huge number of differing collaborators and co-authors on these papers, [possible misconduct] by a rogue postdoc or a collaborating scientist doesn’t apply here,” says Tim Greenamyre, director of the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases. “I have a hard time believing that he didn’t know, whether he changed the images himself or somebody else did so on his behalf.”
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A 300 page dossier.....

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Dominique Baker
@bakerdphd.bsky.social
Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv She/Her www.dominiquebaker.com/ (I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
3.9k followers483 following8.7k posts
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