Trust the experts: Top NIH Official's Work Falls Under Suspicion

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Brain Researcher Eliezer Masliah was tapped to lead the National Institute on Aging (NIA)'s efforts on Alzheimer's disease research. Only, it looks like many of his 800 papers that have been contributed to the field had false images or images re-used from different contexts.

https://www.science.org/content/article/research-misconduct-finding-neuroscientist-eliezer-masliah-papers-under-suspicion

According to the article, "scores" of Masliah's lab studies conducted at the NIA and the University of California San Diego are "riddled with apparently falsified Western blots — images used to show the presence of proteins — and micrographs of brain tissue. Numerous images seem to have been inappropriately reused within and across papers, sometimes published years apart in different journals, describing divergent experimental conditions.".

The article noted that a neuroscientist and forensic analysts who had previously worked with Science magazine produced a "300-page dossier revealing a steady stream of suspect images between 1997 and 2023 in 132 of his published research papers."

They concluded that this "pattern of anomalous data raises a credible concern for research misconduct and calls into question a remarkably large body of scientific work," the Science article stated.

I’m floored ... Hundreds of images. There had to have been ongoing manipulation for years.

They just fired him two days ago.

 

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