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Elisabeth Bik
@MicrobiomDigest
Science integrity consultant, PhD. #ImageForensics @METRICStanford affiliate / elisabethbik.bsky.social / Patreon.com/elisabethbik 🇳🇱🇺🇸
San Francisco, CA
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    Elisabeth Bik
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    Does the COVID 19 vaccine induce eye damage? A 2025 paper published in Ophthalmic Epidemiology is being promoted online by vaccine skeptics. But: reused images, impossible demographics, and an incomplete ethics approval number make *me* skeptical.
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    Science Integrity Digest
    A blog about science integrity, by Elisabeth Bik, for Harbers-Bik LLC. Support my work at Patreon.com/elisabethbik
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    Elisabeth Bik
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    Feb 12, 2023
    Vaccines work. Despite what thousands of paid Twitter blue checks might want you to believe, vaccines work. ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-b…
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    Elisabeth Bik
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    Feb 21, 2020
    I am ringing the alarm. We have now found >400 papers that all share a very similar title layout, graph layout, and (most importantly) the same Western blot layout. This is a massive #PaperMill of (what we assume) fabricated data.
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    Elisabeth Bik
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    Jun 10, 2023
    Someone in Ohio is shedding new strain of COVID into sewers, professor says Johnson, with the help of his Twitter followers and U.S. Census data, have narrowed down the list of possible infected people to about 1,600
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    Someone in Ohio is shedding new strain of COVID into sewers, professor says
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    Elisabeth Bik
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    Oct 20, 2024
    The punishment for science misconduct is …. nothing. All these men are still running labs / paid professors.
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    Dan Elton
    @moreisdifferent
    Oct 20, 2024
    List of high-level Alzheimer's researchers accused of credible fraud:🧵 #1 - Marc Tessier-Lavigne Genentech pointed out problems in his 2009 Nature paper in 2012. After an expose by @tab_delete, he had to resign from Stanford Presidency, but can still run lab and do research.
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    Elisabeth Bik
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    May 23, 2019
    A new thread about a series of papers in legitimate scientific journals, all from the same author. These papers have all been peer-reviewed, but no editor or peer reviewer noticed a huge problem. Warning: this might make your jaw drop.
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    Elisabeth Bik
    @MicrobiomDigest
    Oct 24, 2020
    Today, I present to you The Paper With More References Than Words. It has 182 words and 212 references. All references are from the first author. Who works at a university that does not appear to exist.
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    Elisabeth Bik
    @MicrobiomDigest
    Dec 1, 2021
    I am so, so, so grateful for this incredible honour. Thank you so much @senseaboutsci and @SpringerNature ❤️
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    Sense about Science
    @senseaboutsci
    Dec 1, 2021
    The John Maddox Prize 2021 goes to Elisabeth Bik, @MicrobiomDigest, Microbiologist and Science Integrity Consultant @SpringerNature
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    Elisabeth Bik
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    Jul 29, 2024
    Delighted that this paper cites one of my first papers (1991)! As an undergraduate student, I discovered this weird repeat - I honestly thought I had made some dumb mistake. We had no idea what this repetitive sequence was. #CRISPR
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    Elisabeth Bik
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    Jul 20, 2023
    You are asking the wrong person.
    Screenshot from my direct messages. Someone asked: "I am, Dr. [XXX] Program Director of PROBIOTICS NUTRITION CONFERENCE 2023. We are organizing the 4th International Conference on Probiotics and Nutrition on September September 13-14, 2023 Rome, Italy. Would you like to participate?" My answer: " am not working on Probiotics at all, but if you pay for my flight, hotel, conference fee, and a honorarium of EUR 2000 I would be happy to give a keynote talk about Predatory Conferences."
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    Elisabeth Bik
    @MicrobiomDigest
    Aug 29, 2019
    From a paper published in @Nature yesterday by @harvardmed scientists. I just reported it to the EiC, with shaking hands and pounding heart because scary to see that this passed #peerreview and editorial screening in such a high impact journal.
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    Elisabeth Bik
    @MicrobiomDigest
    Mar 21, 2020
    Much excitement about the paper on #Hydroxychloroquine treatment of #COVID19 patients. 20 treated patients all seemed to eliminate virus fast. But 4 patients who did worse (one died) were left off. See my comments @PubPeer: pubpeer.com/publications/3…
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    Elisabeth Bik
    @MicrobiomDigest
    Aug 26, 2024
    AI can be used to make convincing looking fake data. There is no way we can distinguish real from fake anymore. It is safe to assume that genAI has already resulted in many fake papers. Scientific publishing is not prepared for this.
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    Cheshire
    @Thatsregrettab1
    Aug 26, 2024
    Generative AI fraud example by me. The rightmost column of tumors was created by AI using the first 6 (supposedly) real ones. Time required: 30 seconds.
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    Elisabeth Bik
    @MicrobiomDigest
    May 1, 2021
    If professors keep doxxing and insulting me, instead of addressing the concerns I raised in their papers, that must mean they are sick with fear. I will not stop what I am doing, @IHU_Marseille