January 2019 – For Better Science

by Leonid Schneider January 30, 2019 201

Spanish elites rally in support of data manipulation

Carlos Lopez-Otin was forced to retract EIGHT papers in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, right after he retracted a very important paper in Nature Cell Biology. Spanish elites cry foul, a letter signed by 50 Spanish researchers was sent to JBC to prevent retractions. The ringleader is Juan Valcarcel of CRG in Barcelona, and I release 3 incompetent investigative reports Valcarcel commissioned in 2015 to whitewash his CRG colleague Maria Pia Cosma.

by Leonid Schneider January 28, 2019 18

Preprinters of the World Unite

The following is a rant in praise of preprints. I blog of usefulness of preprints, open science and open access, how BioRxiv works and their Plan U.

by Leonid Schneider January 23, 2019 58

Research integrity

The Bio-Talent of nanofabrication in Poland

A scientifically subterranean topic at Frontiers leads to a discovery of cheater talents in Poland: a duo of EU-funded nanofabricators from Pakistan. Does any of their papers contain any actual research data, or is it all just made up?

by Leonid Schneider January 21, 2019 28

Guest post Medicine Research integrity University Affairs

Chinese university hospital denounces “malicious attack” by Western vaccine industry

Manipulated data in 17 papers from one cancer research lab in China gets flagged on PubPeer. It ends with the university hospital in Wuhan issuing a secret statement accusing the US pharma giant a Merck of a conspiracy to slander a Chinese Academy member, Dr Ding Ma.

by Leonid Schneider January 15, 2019 17

Academic Publishing News

Plan S in chaos at Berlin APE conference

Plan S, designed by the former EU Commissioner Robert-Jan Smits, became a complete and chaotic mess where everyone, including the members of the signatory cOAlition S of research founders, does whatever they want. I learned all that while participating at the Academic Publishing Europe (APE) conference in Berlin, on 15-16 January.

by Leonid Schneider January 14, 2019 46

Guest post Medicine Research integrity Smut Clyde

Texas Photoshop Massacre (in Nature)

The team around the paediatric oncologist Nabil Ahmed at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, discovered a way to engineer T-leukocytes to bypass the blood-brain barrier at attack otherwise untreatable brain cancers. Their amazing technology to get this published in Nature was brazenly insolent data fakery.

by Leonid Schneider January 9, 2019 2

Medicine Research integrity University Affairs

Scratchy cancer cure discoveries of Ruben Plentz

Professor Ruben Plentz chose to focus his career on clinical medicine in Bremen, despite his tremendous academic achievements in cancer research. Was it because malicious critics harassed him with frivolous investigations and corrections, envious at all those peer-reviewed cancer cures the great doctor invented?

by Leonid Schneider January 4, 2019 32

Lawyering-up News Research integrity University Affairs

Ferrara rector Zauli unleashes Italian authorities to protect his phony privacy

On 27 December 2018, I received an email from the Italian Office for Protection of Personal Data. A certain Professor Giorgio Zauli has reported me for publishing an official letter his University of Ferrara sent to me on his behalf.

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