Elisabeth Bik is a Dutch microbiologist who has a talent for identifying duplicated patterns. She turned her attention to the question of scientific integrity more than a decade ago, and has since been responsible for the retraction of more than a thousand papers that have blatant image manipulation in them. We talk to her about the work of image sleuthing, the nature of science that induces people to fake data, the impact of rotten data filling low-tier journals, and how questionable practices reach all the way to the top.

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(00:00) Go!

(00:04:45) Elizabeth Bik, Science Detective

(00:12:40) Slippery slope of scientific fraud

(00:21:13) Up close and personal with the consequences

(00:31:15) Is publishing garbage really that bad?

(00:40:04) Is fraud a modern problem?

(00:53:14) Hidden problems

(01:02:23) The nature of ethical infractions

(01:07:20) Why Nastia hates western blots

(01:17:13) Papers, power, and a fall from grace

(01:26:23) Why Pubpeer is amazing

(01:34:04) What happened at Stanford?

(01:36:37) Big science, big money

(01:44:57) Questions of succession & legacy

(01:54:35) Closing thoughts

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