“When I looked carefully at the spreadsheet, I could see entire blocks of data that were repeated,” recalled John Loadsman, an anesthesiologist and scientific sleuth at the University of Sydney. “It was obvious that this was cooked.”

High-profile anesthesiologists earning retractions for data, image problems

Credit: funkenzauber/Adobe Stock In July 2021, John Loadsman received a manuscript about a clinical trial that immediately roused his suspicion. Then the editor-in-chief of Anaesthesia and Intensiv…

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Clarivate’s influential Web of Science database of abstracts and citations has paused coverage of new content from a collection of surgery journals, including a top-ranked title in the field, following a Retraction Watch investigation from March.

Major citation index put surgery journals on hold following Retraction Watch investigation

Clarivate’s influential Web of Science database of abstracts and citations has paused coverage of new content from a collection of surgery journals, including a top-ranked title in the field, follo…

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A Retraction Watch story left one reader intrigued. “I’ve never seen anything like that before,” said John Loadsman of the University of Sydney, an anesthesiologist and journal editor. “I thought, I’ve got to have a look.”

Publisher flags more than 120 papers three and a half years after learning of problems

What started as a small editorial conundrum several years ago has turned into an expression of concern for dozens of papers in a medical journal, thanks to the work of an Australian physician and s…

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Depressing that a huge proportion of image misconduct is in Cancer research. Paper published 20 years back. Clear signs of Photoshop. First reports on PubPeer was 2024. @grumpygasbag.bsky.social pointed to more problems. I have just done another animation based on that. pubpeer.com/publications...

Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer. Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to follow suit. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer

Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to follow suit.

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@j-clin-anesth.bsky.social @elsevierconnect.bsky.social this problem was also brought to your attention more than two years ago. Surely something needs to be done here… pubpeer.com/publications...

@j-clin-anesth.bsky.social @elsevierconnect.bsky.social this issue was reported to your journal nearly three years ago yet nothing much seems to be happening... pubpeer.com/publications...

Hey @tandfresearch.bsky.social, - you should not allow authors to address photoshopped tumors by just leaving out the photoshopped tumors. This paper was 1 year old at the time of correction. Where are the originals? Horrible editorial decision. #ImageForensics

Retracted September 2025…

John Loadsman@grumpygasbag.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is different. Eyeglasses and candles for mean markers. Perhaps the editor(s), reviewers and Wiley could have borrowed the candles and glasses to help them see the problems with the error bars pubpeer.com/publications...

We don’t know if it’s the fastest retraction ever, but the speed is nonetheless notable: A journal retracted a paper 22 hours after a sleuth raised concerns about the article.

Journal issues speedy retraction in less than a day for ‘inadvertent mistake’

We don’t know if it’s the fastest retraction ever, but the speed is nonetheless notable: A journal retracted a paper 22 hours after a sleuth raised concerns about the article.  On August 9 jus…

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@annsaudimed.bsky.social you might want to ask the authors to address some questions that have been raised about their paper pubpeer.com/publications...

@annsaudimed.bsky.social · last yr.

Rebound pain after interscalene brachial plexus block for shoulder surgery: a randomized clinical trial of the effect of different multimodal analgesia regimens www.annsaudimed.net/doi/10.5144/... #Medicine

The excellent form of @elsevierconnect.bsky.social continues...

@elsevierconnect.bsky.social in good form…

We would like to thank the awardees, speakers, moderators, and guests for the wonderful evening at the 2024 #EinsteinFoundationAward ceremony! @kaiwegner.bsky.social @regberlin.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social @pubpeer.com @helenajambor.bsky.social @chrischmied.bsky.social

At least they didn't use a serif font for the error bars. https//e-century.u...

A simulated ‘can’t intubate, can’t oxygenate’ manikin crossover study investigating a modified front-of-neck access airway device journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This is different. Eyeglasses and candles for mean markers. Perhaps the editor(s), reviewers and Wiley could have borrowed the candles and glasses to help them see the problems with the error bars pubpeer.com/publications...