Charles Piller

And maybe I even believe in it deeply and I'm willing to roll the dice on possibly getting caught. But there you have it. Yes.

And maybe I even believe in it deeply and I'm willing to roll the dice on possibly getting caught. But there you have it. Yes.

And maybe I even believe in it deeply and I'm willing to roll the dice on possibly getting caught. But there you have it. Yes.

These big journals, Nature, Lancet, there have been issues with journal articles being published that ended up being retracted. There's supposed to be a peer review process that is very thorough. And part of that peer review process seems to leave out the fact-checking of corruption, of fraud.

These big journals, Nature, Lancet, there have been issues with journal articles being published that ended up being retracted. There's supposed to be a peer review process that is very thorough. And part of that peer review process seems to leave out the fact-checking of corruption, of fraud.

These big journals, Nature, Lancet, there have been issues with journal articles being published that ended up being retracted. There's supposed to be a peer review process that is very thorough. And part of that peer review process seems to leave out the fact-checking of corruption, of fraud.

Do we need to change the peer review process to make those people participating in peer review to be more cognizant or to be on the lookout for these type of situations?

Do we need to change the peer review process to make those people participating in peer review to be more cognizant or to be on the lookout for these type of situations?

Do we need to change the peer review process to make those people participating in peer review to be more cognizant or to be on the lookout for these type of situations?

Yeah, I want to tell you a small anecdote from... One person who I looked into the work of, a very famous Alzheimer's and stroke scientist at the University of Southern California by the name of Berezlov Zolakovich. And

Yeah, I want to tell you a small anecdote from... One person who I looked into the work of, a very famous Alzheimer's and stroke scientist at the University of Southern California by the name of Berezlov Zolakovich. And

Yeah, I want to tell you a small anecdote from... One person who I looked into the work of, a very famous Alzheimer's and stroke scientist at the University of Southern California by the name of Berezlov Zolakovich. And

When I looked at dozens of his papers and people who were helping me with this and working on examining the images found a lot of problems with these papers, a lot of apparently doctored images, part of my due diligence process, part of my own process of checking the images

When I looked at dozens of his papers and people who were helping me with this and working on examining the images found a lot of problems with these papers, a lot of apparently doctored images, part of my due diligence process, part of my own process of checking the images

When I looked at dozens of his papers and people who were helping me with this and working on examining the images found a lot of problems with these papers, a lot of apparently doctored images, part of my due diligence process, part of my own process of checking the images

believability of concerns raised about these images is to go to subject matter experts in the field, people who know this stuff cold and would be able to both understand the possibility of manipulation, but also its meaningfulness, whether it's important or not, what it does to change ideas in the paper and in the field itself.

believability of concerns raised about these images is to go to subject matter experts in the field, people who know this stuff cold and would be able to both understand the possibility of manipulation, but also its meaningfulness, whether it's important or not, what it does to change ideas in the paper and in the field itself.

believability of concerns raised about these images is to go to subject matter experts in the field, people who know this stuff cold and would be able to both understand the possibility of manipulation, but also its meaningfulness, whether it's important or not, what it does to change ideas in the paper and in the field itself.

And I'll never forget this moment where I went to this particular expert who was a world-class expert in the science behind some of these papers, showed him the dossier, and he came back to me and he said, he was sort of, astonished himself because he found in the dossier of apparently doctored papers, a paper that he had personally peer reviewed and approved for publication. He had no idea.

And I'll never forget this moment where I went to this particular expert who was a world-class expert in the science behind some of these papers, showed him the dossier, and he came back to me and he said, he was sort of, astonished himself because he found in the dossier of apparently doctored papers, a paper that he had personally peer reviewed and approved for publication. He had no idea.