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Mircea Ivan @OxygenIvan

Discovered O2-sensing HIF-PH enzymes, essential for the 2019 Nobel Prize. Focus on sound science practices and genomic literacy. Tweets are my own.

Joined October 2020
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Mircea Ivan@OxygenIvan
2 Dec 2023
2019, at the Nobel Banquet with Bill Kaelin, celebrating the discovery of cellular O2 sensors, HIF Prolyl Hydroxylases.
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Charles Piller@cpiller
4 Sep 2025
Another elaborate correction by Eliezer Masliah et al admitting image anomalies ID’d originally by @mumumouse2 prior to my @ScienceMagazine investigation of Masliah: errors in images, but not to worry, they were only “for illustration purposes.” academic.oup.com/brain/artic…

RETRACTED: Correction to: Accumulation of oligomer-prone α-synuclein exacerbates synaptic and...

Abstract. This article has been retracted. Please see this notice for details: https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awag056.

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wcri2026.org/program/?utm_ca… Very excited to organize this #workshop with Jana and Nathalie. A topic of utmost importance for resetting the dissemination of scientific results on a rigorous foundation. Join us next spring in @Vancouver! @WCRIFoundation

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Something very significant quietly growing under our eyes. Sholto David @addictedtoigno1 has started to focus on Nature papers, and what he is posting on #Pubpeer is troubling. Not sure how he selects his target papers, but the number of “hits” every day suggests that a good proportion of what he is looking at contains manipulations (at least duplications). These papers are from highly diverse life science fields. Pls RT. @WCRIFoundation @RetractionWatch @lonnibesancon @mumumouse2 @cpiller
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Charles Piller@cpiller
29 Aug 2025
Thanks to @PutneyDebater for a thoughtful review of my book, "Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's" jacobin.com/2025/08/big-phar…

How the Pharma Industry Botched Alzheimer’s Treatment

Journalist Charles Piller has exposed a pattern of shoddy and even fraudulent practices in Alzheimer’s research. It shows the drug research system needs serious reform, but health secretary Robert F....

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I’ve argued many times before that the number of journals needs to go down. Drastically. We are already drowning in noise posing as science.
Charles Piller@cpiller
29 Aug 2025
AI tool labels more than 1000 journals for ‘questionable,’ possibly shady practices | Science | AAAS via @JeffreyBrainard science.org/content/article/…
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When Marc Tessier-Lavigne continued to make 2mil/year AFTER being exposed for countless flawed papers and manipulated figures, you know something is rotten in the academic system…
Elisabeth Bik@MicrobiomDigest
29 Aug 2025
As @Stanford lays off workers, 18 employees made $1 million or more. Among them, former SU president Tessier-Lavigne, who resigned after concerns about his papers. He is still professor, made $2 million last year, almost 2x as current president. padailypost.com/2025/08/23/a…
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Retraction Watch@RetractionWatch
28 Aug 2025
Exclusive: Cancer researcher sues MD Anderson over misconduct finding retractionwatch.com/2025/08/…

Exclusive: Cancer researcher sues MD Anderson over misconduct finding

Sonia Melo A biochemist who worked as a postdoc at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has sued the institution to dispute findings of research misconduct.  The resear…

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pubpeer.com/publications/0B4… Wake up @Nature , why is this not retracted??…. @Thatsregrettab1 @MicrobiomDigest @DavidSandersRep @OIntegridadEsp @Spottingthespot @metapredict @mumumouse2 @addictedtoigno1 @RetractionWatch @ACSHorg @WCRIFoundation

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journals.plos.org/plosone/ar… Hmmmmmm……..@metapredict @Spottingthespot @DrLizaMD @ancetetere

Pigeons (Columba livia) as Trainable Observers of Pathology and Radiology Breast Cancer Images

Pathologists and radiologists spend years acquiring and refining their medically essential visual skills, so it is of considerable interest to understand how this process actually unfolds and what...

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pubpeer.com/publications/9E8… Who doesn’t smell a rat here ? Apparently this top journal prioritizes sophistication over sound science. It’s all about make believe these days.
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Keith Sakata, MD
@KeithSakata
21 Aug 2025
Scientific progress doubles every 15 years. Scientific fraud doubles every 1.5. A new PNAS study found a small network of journal editors are responsible for 30% of retractions (approving their bogus work) When it comes to AI= garbage in, garbage out.
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Replying to @Thatsregrettab1 @ElsevierConnect @MicrobiomDigest
The back story, with sympathy and respect for @schrag_matthew. Also told in the book _Doctored_, by @cpiller science.org/content/article/…

‘I’m nauseated’: Alzheimer’s whistleblower finds possible misconduct by his mentor in their papers

Matthew Schrag investigated his old publications after they were flagged on the PubPeer website

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pubpeer.com/publications/2DD… Five years later, #mortality rate due to #Covid19 remains a contentious issue. It may never be solved in a way that generally satisfies the #scientific community. What will #medical students learn in, say 2050, about #COVID_19 ? The debate between John Ioannidis and #Pubpeer opponents is a must read. @ScienceMagazine @DrLizaMD @newscientist

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weekendsherpa.com/stories/ex… Visiting Frank Herbert’s birthplace and the place that provided the inspiration for #Dune.

Be Dune-spired!

There’s only one urban park on the planet that helped inspire a major theme in Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi book, Dune. Herbert was born and raised in Tacoma, and Dune Peninsula at Point Defiance Park...

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World Conf Research Integrity@WCRIFoundation
14 Aug 2025
Genomics pioneer George Church earns first retraction for anti-aging gene therapy paper #Retractions #AntiAging #Genomics #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI retractionwatch.com/2025/08/…
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The anti-aging field is like religion: part of its attraction--a major part, I think--is that it, like religion, makes such an extraordinary claim: the possibility of indefinte or even eternal life. The Fountain of Youth. That's one helluva drug, isn't it?
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pubpeer.com/publications/9B7… When you realize how polluted this anti-aging field is…. “Top” names, journals but the content is junk.

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WU Guangheng@Dr_5GH
9 Aug 2025
ZHU Bin (朱斌), who earned the title of "Top 2% Scientist" in 2022, and is working for Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and Southeast University, China, is found to receive abnormal "Citation-from-Pal" and "Citation-from-Themself". Details: 5gh.org.cn/WuGH/2025/000007.…
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Tiny slips speaking volumes.
Cheshire@Thatsregrettab1
7 Aug 2025
Hmm.
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Sholto David@addictedtoigno1
5 Aug 2025
A new blog written with Fabian Wittmers. More trouble at UCL... forbetterscience.com/2025/08… @ucl @Wittmassh
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