@agingroy You are completely correct. For two decades the largest science con I'm aware of, has brainwashed an entire generation of scientists working in exercise, metabolism & health. The originators of the defective & oft fabricated data, remain front & centre
https://t.co/MlWxfvK6yE
This might be the most economically illiterate and dishonest statistical sleight-of-hand on X.
By this exact logic:
• The US is an "apartheid state" because Mexican citizens in Tijuana can't vote in US elections.
• France is an "apartheid state" because Algerians can't vote in Paris.
100% of non-Jewish Israeli citizens have full voting rights, they vote, run political parties, sit in the Knesset, and serve as Supreme Court justices.
The Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are not Israeli citizens. Under the internationally recognized Oslo Accords (signed by the PLO), they vote for their own government, the Palestinian Authority or Hamas in Gaza.
The reason they haven’t voted in 18 years isn't Israel—it’s because Mahmoud Abbas is in year 20 of a 4-year term and cancelled elections out of fear that Hamas would overthrow him and since Hamas was elected in 2007, they stopped elections and moved to a more weaponized approach..
Conflating sovereign citizenship with a foreign population under military occupation isn't profound, Niels-it’s just redefining the word "apartheid" until it loses all legal meaning.
Today I am sharing a new preprint and accompanying blog post. Hundreds of published papers include impossible western blots showing protein expression in cell lines that have deleted or mutated genes. These clumsy mistakes are widespread and repeated by LLMs.
@DAaronovitch Salman Rushdie never contributed his royalties to a terrorist organization. Sally Rooney was never the subject of a fatwa issued by a foreign leader. Also Rooney is no Rushdie. The comparison is odious but in keeping with the BBC support for the antizionist hate movement.
@DAaronovitch Strawman, and a pretty plain one. Her books were banned because the proceeds were going to a proscribed group, not due to her political views. Would you be ok if she said she wants all the proceeds to go to ISIS?
@DAaronovitch Funding a proscribed terrorist organisation doesn’t align with liberal democracy. Or at least it shouldn’t.
The same people Rooney wants to support are the same people who would have supported the fatwa against Rushdie.
This guy should be in prison. He single-handedly faked data in at least two high-impact papers.
Instead, he got to enjoy the generous salary of a Schmidt Science Fellow, has received zero punishment, and has now simply moved on to pastures anew (writing about classical music).
Retraction note for his 2022 Science Translational Medicine paper: https://t.co/HnxmRxrlc9
Retraction note for his 2023 Nature paper: https://t.co/WlfdoSxU2E
Nature paper he was a middle author on with an editor's note due to possible data fabrication: https://t.co/XgioTuxiK1
and associated PubPeer: https://t.co/sbtFuLaWtT
And no, prison is not too harsh. He's threatened the careers of every other scientist on his papers, stained the institutes he was at & journals he's published in, and has added to growing distrust in science. He's also likely sent many other scientists down unproductive rabbit holes because they believed his fake data were real. All of this also means ~millions of wasted dollars on fake science or science misled by fake science.
Lack of punishment = incentive. We need to seriously crack down on proven fraudsters. Prison is entirely appropriate imo.
@LocasaleLab@venkmurthy Broken clocks are right twice a day. Don't encourage the fool. And you are wrong. If, with a specific cancer the ATP binding site of the driver mutation is altered, no point given the otherwise not very selective kinase inhibitor. That's one narrow window genomics delivers on.
Sally Rooney can’t sell her books in the UK anymore because she admitted her profits would go to banned group Palestine Action. She’s an awful person who thinks the “liberation of Palestine” liberates the “world”. Jews are not your problem Sally, you are.