False priorities at EU2016NL: Mandate Open Data instead of Gold Open Access!
Open Science is these days largely about mandatory publishing in Open Access (OA), regardless of the costs to poorer scientistsContinue Reading
Month: April 2016
The stem cell faith healers, or magic inside your bone marrow
Bone marrow stem cells are magic, they can do everything. If you don’t believe it, you are simply a loserContinue Reading
Fear and Loathing at Frontiers
Many scientists have been receiving unsolicited emails from the Swiss publisher Frontiers, with invitations to submit papers or become peerContinue Reading
A personal tale of scientific misconduct
“I performed these manipulations on the original scans of my own films, with the express knowledge of my advisor.”
Frontiers’ Bread Madness
Frontiers published a paper titled: “Bread and Other Edible Agents of Mental Disease”. It is authored by two psychologists who declare that bread “can threaten our mental wellbeing”
Academic self-plagiarism: misconduct or a literary art form?
Plagiarism, the misappropriation of the (usually written) work of others in order to present it as one’s own, is universally regarding asContinue Reading
Voinnet aftermath: ethical bankruptcy of academic elites
Olivier Voinnet, the disgraced former star plant scientist and professor at ETH Zürich, is apparently on extended sick leave, hisContinue Reading
Macchiarini and the tracheal regeneration scandal, by Pierre Delaere
This is an open letter to the academic community by Pierre Delaere, professor for respiratory surgery at KU Leuven, Belgium, and oneContinue Reading
April Fools: Elsevier pledges integrity, sacks Marcus, Horton
On March 22nd, Tom Reller, Head of Global Corporate Relations for the publishing giant Elsevier, declared the often criticised andContinue Reading
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