Michael Bock
@hickup65.bsky.social
viel draußen, linksgrünversifft
#Energiewende #noAFD #SaveClimate #TeamWissenschaft #UkraineWar #democracy #iran #linux #OpenScience #OpenSource...
#Energiewende #noAFD #SaveClimate #TeamWissenschaft #UkraineWar #democracy #iran #linux #OpenScience #OpenSource...
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Inquiring minds have noticed that El-Deiry *always* sides with the fraudsters, and *always* assumes that the people who caught the fraud and the systems that adjudicated it are actually the guilty party. Every.single.time.
Why do you think that is, Prof. El-Deiry?
Why do you think that is, Prof. El-Deiry?
December 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Inquiring minds have noticed that El-Deiry *always* sides with the fraudsters, and *always* assumes that the people who caught the fraud and the systems that adjudicated it are actually the guilty party. Every.single.time.
Why do you think that is, Prof. El-Deiry?
Why do you think that is, Prof. El-Deiry?
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If you’re a #microbiologist, @elisabethbik.bsky.social needs no introduction. Her relentless work uncovering image manipulation across publications and outspoken advocacy for stronger research scrutiny is popular.
Latest by @curlyneuron.bsky.social
www.theexperimentalist.org/sci-comm/the...
Latest by @curlyneuron.bsky.social
www.theexperimentalist.org/sci-comm/the...
The Truth Is Out There, but Can We Believe It? Elisabeth Bik and the Quest for Science Integrity — The Experimentalist
Flavia-Bianca Cristian What does scientific fraud have to do with science communication? Their relationship may be complicated, but addressing the persistent issue of public mistrust in science is c...
www.theexperimentalist.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If you’re a #microbiologist, @elisabethbik.bsky.social needs no introduction. Her relentless work uncovering image manipulation across publications and outspoken advocacy for stronger research scrutiny is popular.
Latest by @curlyneuron.bsky.social
www.theexperimentalist.org/sci-comm/the...
Latest by @curlyneuron.bsky.social
www.theexperimentalist.org/sci-comm/the...
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Agrees to Pay $15 Million to Settle Fraud Allegations Related to Scientific Research Grants. The relator [Sholto David] will receive $2,625,000 under today’s settlement.
www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/d...
www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/d...
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Agrees to Pay $15 Million to Settle Fraud Allegations Related to Scientific Research Grants
BOSTON – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Dana-Farber) has agreed to pay $15 million to resolve allegations that, between 2014 and 2024, it made materially false statements and certifications relat...
www.justice.gov
December 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Agrees to Pay $15 Million to Settle Fraud Allegations Related to Scientific Research Grants. The relator [Sholto David] will receive $2,625,000 under today’s settlement.
www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/d...
www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/d...
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The announcement by DOJ:
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/dana-...
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/dana-...
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Agrees to Pay $15M to Settle Fraud Allegations Related to Scientific Research Grants
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. (Dana-Farber) has agreed to pay $15,000,000 to resolve allegations that, between 2014 and 2024, it violated the False Claims Act by making materially false statements...
www.justice.gov
December 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The announcement by DOJ:
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/dana-...
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/dana-...
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And this is Sholto's legendary blog post:
forbetterscience.com/2024/01/02/d...
forbetterscience.com/2024/01/02/d...
Dana-Farberications at Harvard University
“Imagine what mistakes might be found in the raw data if anyone was allowed to look!” – Sholto David
forbetterscience.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
And this is Sholto's legendary blog post:
forbetterscience.com/2024/01/02/d...
forbetterscience.com/2024/01/02/d...
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Whistleblower sleuth @sholtodavid.bsky.social (and his lawyer) wins $2,625,000 from Dana Farber Cancer Center!
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber to pay $15 million to settle US claims over flawed studies
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has agreed to pay $15 million to resolve claims that the Harvard Medical School affiliate wrongly used National Institutes of Health grant funding to support the publicati...
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Whistleblower sleuth @sholtodavid.bsky.social (and his lawyer) wins $2,625,000 from Dana Farber Cancer Center!
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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Ich erkläre es im Lichte der Schlagzeilen nochmal mit Handpuppen: Ja, wir alle „hoffen auf einen Waffenstillstand“ - natürlich. Nur: die Ukraine bietet diesen doch seit Monaten bedingungslos an! Es scheitert an Russland. Und ohne Druck auf Russland wird Russland nicht einlenken.
Zu kompliziert?
Zu kompliziert?
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Ich erkläre es im Lichte der Schlagzeilen nochmal mit Handpuppen: Ja, wir alle „hoffen auf einen Waffenstillstand“ - natürlich. Nur: die Ukraine bietet diesen doch seit Monaten bedingungslos an! Es scheitert an Russland. Und ohne Druck auf Russland wird Russland nicht einlenken.
Zu kompliziert?
Zu kompliziert?
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December 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Even in platforming our success - there's still more spin.
We're not backing "small boat migrants."
We're backing people - including people who are in desperate circumstances.
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We're not backing "small boat migrants."
We're backing people - including people who are in desperate circumstances.
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December 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Wenn ich noch eine journalistische Anfrage zu den "laufenden Friedensverhandlungen" bekomme, trete ich in einen unbefristeten Interviewstreik.
Es gibt keine Friedensverhandlungen.
Es gibt keine Waffenstillstandsverhandlungen.
Es gibt einen diplomatisch dilettierenden und marodierenden
Es gibt keine Friedensverhandlungen.
Es gibt keine Waffenstillstandsverhandlungen.
Es gibt einen diplomatisch dilettierenden und marodierenden
August 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Wenn ich noch eine journalistische Anfrage zu den "laufenden Friedensverhandlungen" bekomme, trete ich in einen unbefristeten Interviewstreik.
Es gibt keine Friedensverhandlungen.
Es gibt keine Waffenstillstandsverhandlungen.
Es gibt einen diplomatisch dilettierenden und marodierenden
Es gibt keine Friedensverhandlungen.
Es gibt keine Waffenstillstandsverhandlungen.
Es gibt einen diplomatisch dilettierenden und marodierenden
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Fun stuff.
Partly featuring me and Claire Francis with Leonid explaining why anything we found matters.
h/t @smutclyde.bsky.social
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Partly featuring me and Claire Francis with Leonid explaining why anything we found matters.
h/t @smutclyde.bsky.social
forbetterscience.com/2025/12/09/p...
Professor Grune’s diet of dodgy blots
As German TV asks Tilman Grune what he will eat in the future, I have other questions for him.
forbetterscience.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Fun stuff.
Partly featuring me and Claire Francis with Leonid explaining why anything we found matters.
h/t @smutclyde.bsky.social
forbetterscience.com/2025/12/09/p...
Partly featuring me and Claire Francis with Leonid explaining why anything we found matters.
h/t @smutclyde.bsky.social
forbetterscience.com/2025/12/09/p...
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One step in the right direction from @cnrs.fr . Here’s hoping others will follow and we can get some more space for actual science. 🧪 www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...
The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'
www.cnrs.fr
December 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
One step in the right direction from @cnrs.fr . Here’s hoping others will follow and we can get some more space for actual science. 🧪 www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...
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Perfectly perfect in every way.
Gavin Newsom Just One-Upped Trump's 'Perfect' MRI Results With A Trolling Memo From His Own 'Doctor'
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December 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Perfectly perfect in every way.
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Schneider Shorts 28.11.2025 – Virtue-signalling retraction lottery
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Schneider Shorts 28.11.2025 – Virtue-signalling retraction lottery
Schneider Shorts 28.11.2025 – a Good Russian in eastern Germany, a pensioner victimised in New York, with several MDPI retractions for papermillers and Italian bigwigs, interesting correction…
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November 28, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Schneider Shorts 28.11.2025 – Virtue-signalling retraction lottery
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/28/s...
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www.deutschlandfunk.de/corona-beric...
Ich hatte mal überschlagen, dass eine ca. 2-3 Woche spätere Reaktion in D ca. 60.000 zusätzliche Todesfälle bedeutet hätte. Das scheint wohl mit dieser Schätzung aus UK übereinzustimmen.
Ich hatte mal überschlagen, dass eine ca. 2-3 Woche spätere Reaktion in D ca. 60.000 zusätzliche Todesfälle bedeutet hätte. Das scheint wohl mit dieser Schätzung aus UK übereinzustimmen.
Versäumnisse der Regierung Johnson - Corona-Bericht: Tausende vermeidbare Tote in Großbritannien
Eine Expertenkommission in Großbritannien wirft der damaligen konservativen Regierung von Premier Johnson schwere Versäumnisse zum Beginn der Corona-Pandemie 2020 vor.
www.deutschlandfunk.de
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
www.deutschlandfunk.de/corona-beric...
Ich hatte mal überschlagen, dass eine ca. 2-3 Woche spätere Reaktion in D ca. 60.000 zusätzliche Todesfälle bedeutet hätte. Das scheint wohl mit dieser Schätzung aus UK übereinzustimmen.
Ich hatte mal überschlagen, dass eine ca. 2-3 Woche spätere Reaktion in D ca. 60.000 zusätzliche Todesfälle bedeutet hätte. Das scheint wohl mit dieser Schätzung aus UK übereinzustimmen.
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Greek and American antivaxxers, rascist and Iranian agents, a Romanian papermiller... asked ChatGPT to write a PubPeer Lament.
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An expert criticism by fraudsters and antivaxxers: the case of PubPeer
“A concerning trend is the rise of “hyper-skepticism”” – ChatGPT
forbetterscience.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Greek and American antivaxxers, rascist and Iranian agents, a Romanian papermiller... asked ChatGPT to write a PubPeer Lament.
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/19/a...
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/19/a...
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A new discussion session, 'What is needed?'
Discussion led by Michael Green:
* We are not against the p-value - it should just slowly left to wither.
* Discussion about how to make science 'sexy' - a word that might be controversial.
* If you use 'significant' - know what it means.
#IRICSydney
Discussion led by Michael Green:
* We are not against the p-value - it should just slowly left to wither.
* Discussion about how to make science 'sexy' - a word that might be controversial.
* If you use 'significant' - know what it means.
#IRICSydney
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
A new discussion session, 'What is needed?'
Discussion led by Michael Green:
* We are not against the p-value - it should just slowly left to wither.
* Discussion about how to make science 'sexy' - a word that might be controversial.
* If you use 'significant' - know what it means.
#IRICSydney
Discussion led by Michael Green:
* We are not against the p-value - it should just slowly left to wither.
* Discussion about how to make science 'sexy' - a word that might be controversial.
* If you use 'significant' - know what it means.
#IRICSydney
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Ein 350 Millionen schweres Steuergeschenk für die Luftverkehrsindustrie raushauen, das Bahnfahrende mit der Verteuerung des Deutschlandtickets querfinanzieren. Chapeau: Das ist Robin Hood rückwärts bei gleichzeitiger Klimazerstörung.
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Ein 350 Millionen schweres Steuergeschenk für die Luftverkehrsindustrie raushauen, das Bahnfahrende mit der Verteuerung des Deutschlandtickets querfinanzieren. Chapeau: Das ist Robin Hood rückwärts bei gleichzeitiger Klimazerstörung.
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Schneider Shorts 14.11.2025 – Having all these women around makes it more fun for the men
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/14/s...
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/14/s...
Schneider Shorts 14.11.2025 – Having all these women around makes it more fun for the men
Schneider Shorts 14.11.2025 – undead vampire is dead, Harvard researcher laments grant loss, BMJ concerned about having been duped, with another Italian cheater, a rascist identity thief, a H…
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November 14, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Schneider Shorts 14.11.2025 – Having all these women around makes it more fun for the men
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/14/s...
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/14/s...
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Heute Abend bei Maybrit Illner: "Tragen ARD und ZDF fahrlässig zum Aufstieg des Faschismus bei, indem sie ständig AfD-Politiker in Talkshows einladen?" – es diskutieren: Beatrix von Storch, Tino Chrupalla, Alice Weidel und Björn Höcke
www.der-postillon.com/2024/02/talk...
www.der-postillon.com/2024/02/talk...
Heute Abend bei Maybrit Illner: "Tragen ARD und ZDF fahrlässig zum Aufstieg des Faschismus bei, indem sie ständig AfD-Politiker in Talkshows einladen?" – es diskutieren: Beatrix von Storch, Tino Chrupalla, Alice Weidel und Björn Höcke
Berlin (dpo) - Immer wieder wird Kritik an der Gästeauswahl von Talkshows im Öffentlich-Rechtlichen Fernsehen laut – besonders die Frage, ob man recht
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November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Heute Abend bei Maybrit Illner: "Tragen ARD und ZDF fahrlässig zum Aufstieg des Faschismus bei, indem sie ständig AfD-Politiker in Talkshows einladen?" – es diskutieren: Beatrix von Storch, Tino Chrupalla, Alice Weidel und Björn Höcke
www.der-postillon.com/2024/02/talk...
www.der-postillon.com/2024/02/talk...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Publishing #fraud is rampant yet still highly ignored or underestimated!
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How the Proliferation of Fraudulent Scientific Papers Is Threatening the Integrity of Cancer Research
There is a perception among many scientists that scientific fraud is a rare occurrence, resulting from the actions of a few isolated bad actors. However, an extensive investigation by Reese A.K. Richa...
ascopost.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Publishing #fraud is rampant yet still highly ignored or underestimated!
ascopost.com/news/october...
ascopost.com/news/october...
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One Decade of For Better Science
forbetterscience.com/2025/10/28/o...
forbetterscience.com/2025/10/28/o...
One Decade of For Better Science
Inclusive: For Better Science is 10 years old!
forbetterscience.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
One Decade of For Better Science
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@elisabethbik.bsky.social Story notes claim that Dr. Patterson has treated 12k patients. Yet this doc, whose company owns the patent for use of maraviroc to treat long covid, has to date managed to publish a chart review of 18 patients. His in-house unregistered IRB prompted queries:
October 29, 2025 at 4:30 AM
@elisabethbik.bsky.social Story notes claim that Dr. Patterson has treated 12k patients. Yet this doc, whose company owns the patent for use of maraviroc to treat long covid, has to date managed to publish a chart review of 18 patients. His in-house unregistered IRB prompted queries:
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Immer wieder wird Grok, die KI von Musk, auf X befragt. Aber man sollte sehr vorsichtig zu sein, den Antworten zu glauben. Ich habe Grok gefragt: Ist Trump dabei, die Demokratie in den USA abzuschaffen? Dieselbe Frage habe ich ChatGBT und Perplexitiy gestellt. Vergleicht selbst.
October 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Immer wieder wird Grok, die KI von Musk, auf X befragt. Aber man sollte sehr vorsichtig zu sein, den Antworten zu glauben. Ich habe Grok gefragt: Ist Trump dabei, die Demokratie in den USA abzuschaffen? Dieselbe Frage habe ich ChatGBT und Perplexitiy gestellt. Vergleicht selbst.