The mysterious public career execution of Robert Ryan
On August 24th I received an anonymous email over my website from a „Concerned Microbiologist”: “I would like to bringContinue Reading
Month: August 2016
How UCL throat surgeon Martin Birchall misleads patients and tricks public funders
This is a new instalment of my investigation into UK and EU funded clinical trials on trachea replacement by theContinue Reading
Maria Fousteri, the ERC-funded western blot cheater
“The Committee concludes that serious breaches of scientific integrity have been committed by Dr. Fousteri while employed at the Leiden University Medical Center.”
Growing hearts in Hannover: a job opening
The Medical University of Hannover (MHH) in the German Lower Saxony is searching to recruit a professor who can grow humanContinue Reading
Frontiers reviewer told: don’t be strict, endorse paper, reports Giulia Liberati
Journal peer review is a mysterious black box all scientists fear. The task of the reviewers is to help authorsContinue Reading
Does ERC help cheaters pay protection money?
Did you ever wonder why certain zombie scientists were still in academic jobs? Despite having been caught on data manipulationContinue Reading
The smelly compost heap of plant-based nanoparticles
A gang of Indian nanotechnology scientists, allegedly from Annamalai University in India, placed in 2014-2015 several papers in different journals,Continue Reading
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