The impossible Toni Camins
They are professors of molecular biology and they don’t know how microscopy or western blots are supposed to work. But it passed peer review!
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
They are professors of molecular biology and they don’t know how microscopy or western blots are supposed to work. But it passed peer review!
Schneider Shorts 28.05.2021: research misconduct investigations concluded and in process, real experts opining on Chinese paper mills, some more “bullshit”, environmental pollution in Russia, and Russian men obsessed with eternal life.
Unlike those fake paper mill products, this interview failed editorial review and journal quality control.
“I should remind you that the editorial offices that investigated your allegations did not found any evidence of scientific misconduct or data fabrication. In my opinion, your allegation may bear the elements of defamation and false accusation” – Prof Radek Zboril
Schneider Shorts of 21 May 2021 with a whistleblower’s letter, some proud trachea transplanters, racism in sports and sperm, an Israeli surgeon’s first-time retraction, a Brazilian angel of death, Germans embracing Vitamin D, ivermectin and illegal Stöcker vaccines, Indians embracing cow manure, and mice sodomised with a toothbrush to invent a cure for COVID-19.
What do scientists wear when handling glyphosate? Not what they tell you.
Smut Clyde congratulates Aging: “This is bespoke tailoring, in contrast to the off-the-rack products cranked out by the average papermill […] no shame befalls the journals that accept these confections.”
This week’s Schneider Shorts are about unaffected conclusions and destroyed raw data, the war on virus, vaccines and antivaxxers, and the virtues of having a long nose.
Charles-Henri Lecellier is about to get promoted to CNRS research director 2nd class. Time to dig up old stories and let the ghosts rise to wash their dirty laundry.
How to cook potato data. A recipe from Poland.