Joe Rogan on research misconduct: what the evidence says · JRE #2262
SUBJECT: RESEARCH MISCONDUCT
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produced a 300-page dossier revealing a steady stream of suspect images between 1997 and 2023 at 132 of his published research papers.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
This tracks the September 2024 Science magazine investigation by Charles Piller into Eliezer Masliah, then director of the neuroscience division at the National Institute on Aging. A neuroscientist and forensic image analysts assembled a roughly 300-page dossier flagging a steady stream of suspect images between 1997 and 2023 across 132 of his published papers, work that carried more than 18,000 citations. Nature's coverage confirms the same investigation, describing studies riddled with apparently falsified Western blots and micrographs of brain tissue. The NIH separately made a formal finding of research misconduct against Masliah involving reused and relabeled figure panels in two publications, and he stepped down as division director.