A prominent Harvard Medical School neuroscientist, Khalid Shah, is facing allegations of research misconduct, accused by data manipulation expert Elisabeth M. Bik of falsifying data and plagiarizing images across 21 papers. The papers in question include groundbreaking research on brain tumors and stem cells, with some images allegedly cut and pasted from a vendor catalogue. These accusations are part of a larger discussion about academic retractions and scientific fraud, with calls for more fundamental changes to oversight mechanisms to restore integrity to science.
There are lots of reasons for the loss of respect for science, but our obsession with publishing in journals like Science at the expense of what is good for science and society is WAY more of a problem than researchers being rude to editors, which, while bad, is hardly new. https://t.co/ONbLrgwosU
Plagiarism, paper mills and profit: These scientists are fighting the epidemic of fraudulent science research Some researchers are working to sniff out the fraud and restore integrity to their field. Sabahat Rahman reports at @AnalystNews_ https://t.co/QEaAEhDwsU
A self-taught sleuth who has uncovered plagiarism and fakery in research by a number of prominent scientists has a new target: a neuroscientist who teaches at Harvard Medical School. https://t.co/nD8AUbLXi3
The research misconduct allegations keep coming at Harvard, as a leading neuroscientist is now under the microscope for possibly falsifying data and plagiarizing images in his groundbreaking research about brain tumors and stem cells. https://t.co/4egrTxVuXY
Harvard Professor’s Papers Contain Copied Images, Science Sleuth Claims * more than two dozen papers he co-authored contain scientific images that appear doctored or copied. @NidhiSubs reports @WSJ https://t.co/RzxB8tRHWR
My latest in @Forbes examines the alarming rise in academic retractions and questions whether existing oversight mechanisms can adequately address large-scale misconduct. I argue more fundamental changes are needed to restore integrity to science. https://t.co/bF7n8ZusaI
Again, this type of stories is way worse than plagiarism by administrators. Not that plagiarism by charlatans in administrative positions should not be covered. But scientific fraud by actual scientists should receive even more attention because it probably kills people. https://t.co/8j5kk7wcCD
Top Harvard Medical School Neuroscientist Accused of Research Misconduct Cutting and pasting images from a vendor catalogue is a new, clownish low. https://t.co/m3oZJ8dFRK
Is this a crisis yet? Yet more plagiarism accusations at @Harvard: “Top Harvard Medical School neuroscientist Khalid Shah allegedly falsified data and plagiarized images across 21 papers, data manipulation expert Elisabeth M. Bik said.” https://t.co/Pud0CGkfJa