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Joined March 2017
If the journal staff is too slow to address pubpeer concerns (say almost a year), submit your findings as a comment for review in the same journal. I got the EIC's attention in <24 hours. @MicrobiomDigest you may have a stack of potential publications on your desk
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On ouvre la fameuse figure 3 "corrigée" S.Aureus, Panneau C2 et D2. On fait deux copies, une en rouge, une en vert, Et la c'est le drame ! en étirant un peu verticalement l'image a 300uM (D2) coloriee en vert, et en la mettant en rouge au dessus de (D3), Les etoiles s'alignent.
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L'humour, contrairement a l'HCQ en dose de cheval, c'est bon pour la santé.
L'IHU Marseille déplore les agissements de racailles qui dégradent l'espace public autour de notre bâtiment, et aussi les agissements de racailles a l'intérieur du bâtiment, qui dégradent la réputation scientifique française depuis 20 ans
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Un CRS ému de mettre les pieds dans un lycée pour la première fois
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🚨 New paper: Introducing MIND (Monge Inception Distance) Everyone agrees that FID is broken, requires too many samples, slowing down evals. MIND requires 10x fewer samples, is more robust, faster to compute. Our new drop-in replacement for evaluating generative models. 🧵👇
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50+ retractations so far, and these guys are still on payroll. My advice : If you ever get a candidate that co-signed papers with Didier Raoult. Stay away. Don't bring unethical and unprofessional "Marseille science" to your university.
SANTÉ |🔎 Un « docu-thriller » en quatre épisode disponible sur HBO Max raconte comment six citoyens, réunis sur Twitter pendant le Covid, ont dénoncé l'usage dangereux de l'hydroxychloroquine. Retour sur l'histoire du « gang des cerises-trottinettes ». 🔗 Lien de l'article complet : conspiracywatch.info/sur-hbo…
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Prof @Pr_E_Chabriere has a pubpeer record of unethical and photoshopped publications. He also has a criminal record for threatening a cop. In the post below, he celebrates using taxpayer money to initiate SLAP lawsuits. He's still on payroll. Wonder why scientists leave France?
Dans notre série, "dois-je garder le silence ?", Eric nous écrit de Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) pour nous demander "Puis-je dire publiquement que la procédure intentée par Didier Raoult a été payée par un tiers, en l'occurrence Aix-Marseille Université, pour narguer celui qui a finalement eu gain de cause tant en première instance qu'en appel ?"
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This paper should be retracted. The authors did not write it, they outsourced thinking to AI, and they published hallucinations. 1. All the arguments are nonsense; 2. It's substantially AI-written; 3. Several citations are made-up or in error. The authors are frauds.
My co-authors and I just published something in Clinical Psychology Review, and it's open access. It's called "One Size Fits None: A Call for an Idionomic Revolution." We put together a story that has been sitting in plain sight. Applied psychology has made painfully slow progress, and part of the reason traces back to the ergodic error and to the racist, sexist, and antisemitic roots of traditional biostatistics. The majority of American Psychological Association presidents from 1892 to 1947 were card carrying eugenicists. The laws that later shaped the Holocaust were written here in the United States two decades earlier, with the active support of mainstream psychology. Most textbooks treat this as distant history. Almost none notice that the same assumptions still quietly define what we call good science. This is an article of hope though. We lay out another way forward through the emerging science of idionomics, an approach that finally puts the individual client at the center. Do we know it will succeed? Honestly, no. But the path we have been on is scientifically and morally wrong, and if evidence based therapy is going to move ahead, it needs truly new ideas. Read it here, for free: authors.elsevier.com/c/1nkyr…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Critics identified multiple fabricated or erroneous citations in the paper (non-existent works, wrong DOIs/journals). This matches common AI hallucination patterns. x.com/cremieuxrecuei… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42710383/
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business tip : if you are a bar near a big conference center, name your drinks after sandwiches "the Ruben, the blt, etc" purchasing alcohol is usually forbidden in work related travel. but a 20 dollars sandwich is perfectly acceptable
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Laisser faire parenting: no rules, no expectations. Yes, sweetee you can ride your way to school sitting at the window during drop off. Seen in a @chccs public school, in one of the wealthiest, most educated parts of the country. Good luck to all our teachers !
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A cartel of corrupt and unethical scientists from IHU Marseille fell after years of scientific misconduct. After countless rétractations, this is now a HBO documentary. Raoult retired, but his coauthors are still on payroll
Comment Didier Raoult a chuté face au « gang des Cerises trottinettes », les coulisses d’une incroyable histoire HBO met en ligne, ce vendredi, une série documentaire racontant la lutte de ce petit groupe contre le chantre de l’hydroxychloroquine ➡️ l.leparisien.fr/DQaG
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Interesting upcoming AI Conference in Montreal !
#AISTATS 2027 Call for Paper is out! This year's edition is taking place in Montreal on May 3-6th, 2027 🇨🇦 Aymeric Dieuleveut and I are chairing virtual.aistats.org/Conferen… New this year: AI review, and more! Abstract deadline: September 29, 2026 Paper deadline: October 6, 2026
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Un médecin qui fait bien son travail prescrit donc du repos, une alimentation saine, et de la marche a pied, tous gratuits, au lieu d'une "cure" thermale inutile
J’en prescris si on m’en demande et que le patient a des pathologies concernées de quel droit je lui refuserais même si je suis convaincue qu’une activité physique régulière, perte de poids et la pratique régulière des exercices de rééducation sont plus bénéfiques à long terme
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Les journaux avaient vite rétracté la science neocoloniale de Didier Raoult, probablement afin d'eviter de paraître complices. Voici enfin que commencent a tomber tous les autres articles bidon de l'IHU Marseille ou Raoult & co ont fabriqué leurs résultats avec photoshop.
73ème rétractation pour l'IHU de Marseille. La 61ème pour Didier Raoult. La note de rétractation n'est pas encore publiée mais cet article avait été signalé par @MicrobiomDigest pour des soupçons de duplication d'image.
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if you plan to study history as a major, I recommend taking stem as a minor. that way you don't humiliate yourself by talking nonsense
Historian Jared Diamond: "If Genghis Khan had been born 10 years later or 200 miles further away, we wouldn't know anything about him." Jared Diamond: "Genghis Khan created the largest land empire in world history, all the way from China to Poland. And yet, there were other people who tried—Attila the Hun and Tamerlane the Turk. Why did Genghis Khan succeed? Well, within the last 10 years, students of tree rings have figured out that on the Mongolian steppe, the wettest time in the last 2,000 years was the decade of Genghis Khan's birth. If he had been born 10 years later or 200 miles further away, we wouldn't know anything about Genghis Khan. But he happened to have been born at the right time and place because with all that rain, that meant hay to feed sheep and goats, to feed Mongol babies, and it also meant hay to feed Mongol horses to ride into battle. So Genghis Khan was someone at the right time and place, but he had no idea, and we didn't have any idea until this tree ring study of the last decade."
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l'aviation était un monde merveilleux, jusqu'au jour où on a inventé le passager. Comme un gamin doublement accro aux coca et aux écrans, le passager veut pouvoir charger sa tablette a tout moment, même si ça compromet une évacuation.
Je suis dans un vol Air France, le pilote nous fait tout un bla bla pour nous dire que c’est un avion neuf incroyable ultra moderne. Et en même temps une hôtesse passe pour demander aux gens qui ont branché leurs téléphones de tout débrancher au décollage. C’est moderne punaise.
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My lab members made stickers and tshirts with this graphic... AI at it's worse
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encore un qui va bientôt candidater a Univamu
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Felicitations a toutes les equipes de l'IHU Charlatans Marseille pour cette productivité exceptionnelle. Cela fait donc au moins trente ans que l'IHU gaspille l'argent du contribuable pour produire de la recherche sans valeur. Un pole d'excellence en nullité.
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