Hacker News with Generative AI: Research Misconduct

Decades of Research Misconduct Stalled an Alzheimer's Cure (sciencefriday.com)
In December 2021, I fell into one of the biggest and most disturbing stories of my career. A credible whistleblower with strong credentials in dementia research tipped me to a major case of apparent misconduct in his field. He produced convincing evidence that lab studies at the heart of the dominant hypothesis for the cause of Alzheimer’s disease might have been based on bogus data.
Thousands of papers misidentify microscopes, in possible sign of misconduct (retractionwatch.com)
Thousands of papers misidentify microscopes, in possible sign of misconduct (retractionwatch.com)
Elsevier withdraws plagiarized paper after author calls journal out on LinkedIn (retractionwatch.com)
Elite researchers in China say they had 'no choice' but to commit misconduct (nature.com)
Researchers to retract landmark Alzheimer's paper containing doctored images (science.org)
The AI expert who cited himself thousands of times on scientific paper (elpais.com)