{"id":606,"date":"2018-12-20T20:47:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T20:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psblab.org\/?p=606"},"modified":"2018-12-20T20:47:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T20:47:14","slug":"ugh-tfw-you-just-cant-escape-image-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psblab.org\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Ugh! TFW you just can’t escape image manipulation…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I had the great pleasure of visiting Sabzali Javadov<\/a> at the University of Puerto Rico, to participate in the PhD thesis defense of Rebecca Parodi-Rullan (Rebecca had spent some time in my lab a few years ago on an SfRBM<\/a> mini-felowship).\u00a0 She passed (yay!) and is off to start a post-doc at NYU soon.\u00a0 Here’s a picture of Dr. Javadov’s awesome lab group, who I greatly enjoyed meeting with and discussing science:\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But, as often happens during such visits, there was some down-time, so I found myself waiting in a corridor outside someone’s lab.\u00a0 What else is there to do but read a poster?<\/p>\n

Well, let’s just say the poster had some “imaginative approaches to the re-use of loading controls on western blots”.\u00a0 I snapped a cellphone pic of the author banner and decided to pull some papers when I got home.<\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is what I found. Ugh!\u00a0 Details are posted on PubPeer here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>, for those of you who don’t want to download a PDF with all the details.\u00a0 Essentially it’s mutiple examples of images being re-used across 9 different papers spanning 2004-2018, all from a single PI’s lab – Dipak K. Banerjee<\/a> in the Department of Biochemistry at UPR (Dr. Banerjee is the only author common to all 9 papers). He was and is funded by NIH, and some of the papers fall within the ORI 6 year statute of limitations. Thus, ORI has been informed, as have all the journal editors, and COPE<\/a> (since all the journals are COPE members).<\/p>\n

This sucks!\u00a0 What should otherwise have been an enoyable trip now leaves a sour after-taste. Scientific misconduct never sleeps, it just keeps following me into the most unlikely places. When you’ve seen it once, it’s impossible not to see it everywhere you look. Ugh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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