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the folks who have posted here that they worked in similar labs say 1) their images were reviewed and debated at length by their entire lab, including the pi, and 2) the doctoring of many of the mtl images is blatant, really hard to miss.

There is one very good reason to believe that the doctoring of the MTL images was in fact NOT blatant, really hard to miss. As you undoubtedly know, there papers are peer reviewed before publication. NONE of the reviewers raised questions about these figures. If it was so obvious why didn't the reviewers see it? Clearly, the idea that it was obvious is not supported by facts.

[Goose]

the folks who have posted here that they worked in similar labs say 1) their images were reviewed and debated at length by their entire lab, including the pi, and 2) the doctoring of many of the mtl images is blatant, really hard to miss.

There is one very good reason to believe that the doctoring of the MTL images was in fact NOT blatant, really hard to miss. As you undoubtedly know, there papers are peer reviewed before publication. NONE of the reviewers raised questions about these figures. If it was so obvious why didn't the reviewers see it? Clearly, the idea that it was obvious is not supported by facts.