Tag Archives: image manipulations

Prestigious cancer research institute retracts 7 studies amid controversy over errors

Seven studies by researchers at the prestigious Dana-Farber Cancer Institute were retracted in the past two months after a scientist blogger claimed that images used in the studies were manipulated or copied. The retractions are the latest development in a months-long controversy over research done at the Boston-based institute, which is affiliated with Harvard Medical… Read More »

The once ignored community of science sleuths is now being pursued by the research community.

A community of detectives hunting down errors in scientific research has sent shockwaves through some of the most prestigious research institutions in the world and the scientific community at large. High-profile cases of alleged image manipulation in articles written by the former president of Stanford University and leaders of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have made… Read More »