Sholto David
British molecular biologist
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Sholto David is a British molecular biologist and blogger. He is known for identifying flaws in scientific papers.[1][2][3]
He graduated from Newcastle University in 2019 with a PhD in cellular and molecular biology.[4][5] As of October 2024, he has posted entries on over 2,000 flawed scientific studies.[6] Sholto has over 8,000 comments on PubPeer regarding irregularities he discovered in the medical literature as of August 2026.[7]
On 2 January 2024 David made a blog post focused on image irregularities, with 30 papers published by scientists from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, including some by CEO Laurie Glimcher and COO William Hahn.[8] In December 2025, the United States Department of Justice announced that Dana-Farber agreed to pay $15 million to resolve allegations that, between 2014 and 2024, it violated the version of the False Claims Act then in force. As whistleblower, Sholto received 17.5% of the qui tam settlement, $2.6 million. [9]
