Psience Quest

Science Has a Nasty Photoshopping Problem

Elisabeth Bik 

Quote:There it was. A section of the same photo being used in two different papers to represent results from three entirely different experiments.

What’s more, the authors seemed to be deliberately covering their tracks. Although the photos were of the same sample, one appeared to have been flipped back-to-front, while the other appeared to have been stretched and cropped differently.

Quote:But were those duplicated images just an isolated case? With little clue about how big this would get, I began searching for suspicious figures in biomedical journals...

(2023-04-05, 11:00 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: [ -> ]Science Has a Nasty Photoshopping Problem

Elisabeth Bik 

From what I can gather, this is quite a frequent occurrence in science. What is more, it would presumably only take a little more effort to evade detection completely using a computer program to tweak the pixels very slightly.

Here is EB discussing essentially the same topic with no more than a nagging 'reminder' to give the Guardian your CC details!

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021...ling-began

Note that one 'scientist' posted her home address to try to dissuade her from continuing!

I just feel that honesty in science has eroded to an incredible degree.

David