My personal conspiracy theory: Thermo Fisher does this because they want everyone to stop doing Western blots and change to buying mass spectrometers š
Lars Juhl Jensen
Thermo Fisher now has a page up in response to our observations. They flatly deny that images were manipulated or fabricated while repeating that images were "optimized for presentation and clarity on the website", no lie, six times.
www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/l...
www.thermofisher.com
Reese Richardson
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
šļø Dozens more images with duplications or painting
šØļø Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
