Reese Richardson

On May 17, 2026, Sholto David identified one fabricated image presented as validation data in Thermo Fisher’s antibody catalog.

[ TL;DR: As of 3 June 2026, we have identified more than 450 images bearing signs of manipulation in verification data advertised by Thermo Fisher Scientific in its online primary antibodies catalog (+1 by Abcam).

*depending strongly on who you are buying from, what the topic and preferred venue are and what authorship slot you want.

Happy Peer Review Week!

Today, our article “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly” was published in PNAS.

I have lots of to-do items on my plate lately, so naturally I have been distracted by the latest anti-vaccine bullshit.

I am beyond thrilled to introduce the Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG), a community-led open source resource for performing post-publication peer review.

Almost one year on from Larry Richardson becoming Google Scholar’s highest cited cat, a year and change after Ibrahim et al. released a pre-print (now published) showing that Google Scholar is eminently manipulable and a full 15 years after fictitious per…

To better understand research paper mills, predatory publishers and other players in the scientific gray market, I spend a lot of time in shady Facebook, Telegram and WhatsApp groups where businesses in these markets advertise their services.

“Salami slicing” is the practice of taking a set of research findings and splitting them up into as many publishable papers as possible.