There are clearly some problems in Figure S6b, but dr. S. is "deeply skeptical" and claims that these concerns are "unfounded".Look, you might have won the Nobel prize, but that does not mean you are correct here. I stand by my concerns. https://t.co/l47YC65nZp pic.twitter.com/Gy6xqomXvr— Elisabeth Bik (@MicrobiomDigest) June 16, 2024
Jason Crawford on Twitter / X
It's hard to find information that all the world's top scientists and doctors have missed.But it's not that hard, if you're intelligent, thoughtful, and diligent, to find information that the medical system has not yet caught up to—information that is not yet incorporated into… pic.twitter.com/HrgGzCUdX2— Jason Crawford (@jasoncrawford) September 22, 2024
White House Health Report Included Fake Citations (Published 2025)
A report on children’s health released by the Make America Healthy Again Commission referred to scientific papers that did not exist.
Meta’s Bacterial Mystery Could Poison the Data Center Well
Water pollution in Wyoming has big implications for the future of data center development.
Meet this super-spotter of duplicated images in science papers
Elisabeth Bik quit her job to spot errors in research papers — and has become the public face of image sleuthing.
Okay so, we just found that over 50 papers published at @Neurips 2025 have AI hallucinations by @alexcdot(Alex Cui) | Twitter Thread Reader
Okay so, we just found that over 50 papers published at @Neurips 2025 have AI hallucinations I don't think people realize how bad the slop is right now It's not just that researchers from @GoogleDeepMind, @Meta, @MIT, @Cambridge_Uni are using AI - they allowed LLMs to generate hallucinations in their papers and didn't notice at all. It's insane that these made it through peer review👇
PTAB Reverses §101 Rejection of Probiotic + Prebiotic Composition Claims
Patent Trial and Appeal Board Finds That Probiotic Formulation Is Not a Product of Nature
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
Jason Shepherd on Twitter / X
I have quite a lot of thoughts on this..that won't fit in a tweet. Bottomline is that there are issues scientists in the US would love to improve - faster review, less grant writing, more stability and freedom to do risky science. The folks celebrating this doc are mostly../1 https://t.co/xlPAH9XYNC— Jason Shepherd (@JasonSynaptic) July 23, 2026
Andreas De Block on Twitter / X
It took Nature three years to publish this rebuttal, which clearly demonstrates the fundamental flaws in the original paper. In the meantime, the paper's conclusions influenced scientific debate and policy decisions. Such delays in correcting flawed research do real damage. https://t.co/QI3Ei3PE70— Andreas De Block (@DeblockBlock) August 13, 2026
Let’s Become Fungal!
Inspired by conversations with: Francisca Álvarez Sánchez, Carolina Caycedo, Annalee Davis, Maya Errázuriz, Juan Ferrer, Lilian Fraiji, Giuliana Furci, Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Yina Jiménez Suriel, Patricia Kaishian, Mirla Klijn and Olaf Boswijk, Lola Malavasi and Daniela Morales Lisac, Martina Manterola and Carmen Serra, Camila Marambio, Mariana Martínez Balvanera, Claudia Martínez Garay, Lina Meija and Luciana Fleischman, Tomaz Morgado Françozo and Marília Carneiro Brandão, Marion Neumann, Maria Alice Neves, Tara Rodríguez Besosa, Raquel Rosenberg, Juli Simon, Ela Spalding, Gianine Tabja, Gabriela Flores del Pozo and Lucia Monge, Fer Walüng, Tatyana Zambrano
so I just commented on that paper in Cell Host and Microbe that is cited as evidence that the autism/microbiome link is solid: pubpeer.com/publications/9A4B5695950D3396… (not sure what the word “precision” is supposed to mean in the title) tldr; looks p-hacked 🫤 and I couldn’t find the ethics approval 🤔
PubPeer - Precision microbial intervention improves social behavior bu...
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Kevin Mitchell
Criticism of Autism-Gut Microbiome Research Sparks Pushback the-scientist.com/criticism-of-autism-gut-micro…
A challenge if anyone wants to take it up. Here is a recent review in the BMJ on the "Evidence for clinical interventions targeting the gut microbiome in cardiometabolic disease". There is not a single effect estimate reported in this review, or either supplemental file bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-075180
Evidence for clinical interventions targeting the gut microbiome in cardiometabolic disease
www.bmj.com@bmj.com Please look at PubPeer comments on an article you published last week. pubpeer.com/publications/C08779C45DB6E407… I think your research integrity dept shld act swiftly on this one, given clinical significance. I'm aware of even more evidence of problems so let me know if this is not sufficient.
PubPeer - Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart fail...
pubpeer.comSorry all this is my fault; and speculation has grown worse because I have been sick in bed with a high fever and unable to reliably address it (still am sick) I was told by management not to comment until they did. Here is my statement in images below arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-re…
Sorry all this is my fault; and speculation has grown worse because I have been sick in bed with a high fever and unable to reliably address it (still am sick) I was told by management not to comment until they did. Here is my statement in images below arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-re…
NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”
He Profits Off Raw Milk That's Making People Sick. The Government Isn't Stopping Him.
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