PubPeer

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PubPeer is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between July 01, 2025 and October 13, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “see the PubPeer page”; “presenting the evidence in Pubpeer comments or emails to journal editors”. It most often appears alongside FDA, Harvard, India.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: July 01, 2025
  • Last seen: October 13, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

July 01, 2025 · Original source
20: A journal has retracted the paper claiming that a comet hit a Bronze Age city in Jordan (and potentially inspired the story of Sodom and Gomorrah); see the PubPeer page for some of the “inappropriate manipulation” that was detected.
October 13, 2025 · Original source
Markus Englund, $50K, for software to detect data fabrication. This kind of thing is a perennial ACX Grants favorite, and we don’t always expect it to go anywhere, but Markus got our attention by saying that he’s already built the tool, already scanned 92 published papers, and found “irregularities” in five of them, inspiring two corrigenda and one likely upcoming retraction. Five out of ninety-two is a crazy result, and we’re almost scared to see what happens when he applies his program to a further 20,000 papers, which is the amount that our grant will be paying for. If you’re interested in helping verify cases of suspected data fabrication and presenting the evidence in Pubpeer comments or emails to journal editors, please contact Markus at markus@englund.dev, especially if you have solid knowledge of statistics or biology.