Top Cancer Center Seeks to Retract or Correct Dozens of Studies
That’s the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
A prominent cancer center affiliated with Harvard said it will ask medical journals to retract six research papers and correct dozens of others after a British scientist and blogger found that work by some of its top executives was rife with duplicated or manipulated data.
The blogger, who earned only a few bucks from a single supporter at Patreon for this work, used AI software to flag the problems, which he then investigated himself.
Among the most common irregularities he found were results from a western blot, a method used to detect proteins, that were copied and pasted across different experiments, mistakenly suggesting that a given protein had been identified. In other cases, he said, the images appeared copied and rotated or stretched in a way that suggested deliberate manipulation.
AI has its issues, but it’s making it harder to cheat.