Detlef Weigel (@PlantEvolution) attended me on Twitter to a nice #LabStockPhotoFail in the New York Times – who should know better than to blindly use stock photos with incorrect labels. His tweet included a screenshot of the New York Times article, in which an image of a protein gel is used to portray a DNA sequence.

The source of the stock photo was listed as Science Source, which describes themselves as “The best in stock photography, specializing in Science, Medical and Nature images and video”. Not a site where you would expect to see this:

Note: the “DNA gel” photo has been quickly replaced as of today in both the New York Times article as well as on the Science Source website.

Here is a link to the New York Times article as it appeared yesterday, as archived by the WayBack Machine on Archive.org.