Falsified research caught

This was an interesting article on faked scientific research detected because multiple ‘researchers’ copied and pasted the same images.

‘Systematic fabrication of scientific images revealed’

This evidence points to serious, systematic and large‐scale fabrication of research results. It has come to our attention that in the meantime, three of these manuscripts were submitted to other journals (two of those submissions simultaneously with our journal!) and were published between March and June of this year.​

For those readers who, like me, did not know what a ‘Western blot’ was, here is the Wikipedia article.