The Harvard professor and Brigham & Women’s Hospital cardiologist Joseph Loscalzo became a central figure of a circus of fraud accusations. Female- and male sockpuppets were deployed to troll and protect the honour of a 70 year-old white millionaire.
Loscalzo, described by his employer as “an outstanding cardiovascular scientist, clinician, and teacher” became known to the wider scientific community as the dude who collaborated at Brigham & Women’s with the mega-fraudster Piero Anversa in inventing fictional heart stem cells. You can read about the Anversa scandal in New York Times:
After he got sacked by Harvard in November 2015, Anversa buggered off to the Cardiocentro Ticino in the Italian-speaking canton in Switzerland, as I was the first to find out.
In summer 2022, Reuters investigated that despite Anversa’ proven fraud, federal research money was still being pumped into the research of non-existent heart stem cells. Because his bigwig collaborators were still running the show:
“Anversa and his collaborators also sat on editorial boards of the high-profile AHA journals that published adult stem cell research.
Bolli was editor-in-chief of Circulation Research between 2009 and 2019. And Joseph Loscalzo, also an Anversa collaborator and the chair of Brigham ’s Department of Medicine since 2005, was editor of Circulation between 2004 and 2016.
All told, Circulation Research and Circulation published hundreds of pieces about cardiac adult stem cell research, including more than 300 that cited Anversa’s work, a Reuters review found.
Fourteen of 56 articles from Anversa’s lab in those two journals alone were retracted as a result of the Brigham-Harvard probe, including one co-authored with Bolli and three with Loscalzo.
Through a Brigham spokesman, Loscalzo declined to comment.”
As a side note: Roberto Bolli tripped over his excessive homophobia and religious fundamentalism, and got sacked as chief editor. Other prominent members of the Anversa gang were Jan Kajstura and Annarosa Leri, both got sacked and charged with fraud, at least the latter was later seen at Ticino with Anversa.
Worse, even some of Anversa’s critics are bad scientists themselves, like Jeffery Molkentin at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital (see PubPeer record), or Steven Houser at Temple University:
Steven Houser and the Temple of Fraud
“We all hype our work. We want to tell people our work is important. These patients, many of them coming to enroll in these trials, they have no other hope.” -Steven Houser, Hero of Research Ethics, Temple University
Loscalzo presently has 4 retractions, all with Anversa. Three of these retracted papers were about their fictional heart stem cells (Ferreira-Martins et al Circ Res 2012, Kaistura et al Circ Res 2012, Kajstura et al Circulation 2012), but in this retracted study, Loscalzo’s and Anversa’s heart stem cell fraud metastasised into the lung:
Jan Kajstura , Marcello Rota , Sean R. Hall , Toru Hosoda , Domenico D’Amario , Fumihiro Sanada , Hanqiao Zheng , Barbara Ogórek , Carlos Rondon-Clavo , João Ferreira-Martins , Alex Matsuda , Christian Arranto , Polina Goichberg , Giovanna Giordano , Kathleen J. Haley , Silvana Bardelli, Hussein Rayatzadeh , Xiaoli Liu , Federico Quaini , Ronglih Liao , Annarosa Leri, Mark A. Perrella, Joseph Loscalzo, Piero Anversa Evidence for human lung stem cells New England Journal of Medicine (2011) doi: 10.1056/nejmoa1101324
The retraction notice from November 2018 had the authors collectively inform us that their data faked itself:
“We have been contacted by several authors of the article by Kajstura J et al., Evidence for Human Lung Stem Cells, N Engl J Med 2011;364:1795-1806.1 An investigation by Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital has determined that some of the images in the article were manipulated. The authors tell us that “a review of the original data affirms this conclusion and has led us to conclude that we no longer have faith in the veracity of these images. As we were not aware of this manipulation of the data until long after the paper had been published, we now request that the article be retracted.”
The Schneider Rule of Fake Scientists states that if you wish to meet many research fraudsters, you must follow one of them around. In order to scientifically advance (i.e., monetize) their lung stem cell fraud, the cardiologists Anversa and Loscalzo joined forces with the pulmonologist Augustine MK Choi, e.g. in this review Anversa et al 2012. Years later, Choi was forced to retire as dean of Weill Cornell and slapped with retractions, and presumably also with misconduct findings, following this reporting:
O du lieber Augustine MK Choi
Augustine Choi is Dean of Weill Cornell and a misunderstood genius. He discovered that carbon monoxide is a cure for all possible diseases, just add a bit of Photoshop.
Anversa’s own total count is 19 retractions as of today, all notices reference the investigation by Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
But Loscalzo didn’t really need Anversa to produce fake science, a visit to PubPeer is quite informative. This evidence of a bizarrely fake loading control gel (one gel band copy-pasted 7 times!) rots on PubPeer for 7 years already, the first author Paul C Kuo became professor at University of South Florida since:
P C Kuo , R A Schroeder , J Loscalzo Nitric oxide and acetaminophen-mediated oxidative injury: modulation of interleukin-1-induced nitric oxide synthesis in cultured rat hepatocytes Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (1997) Aug;282(2):1072-83.
The next forgery was flagged 6 years ago, but it cannot be addressed because Loscalzo’s collaborator and the last author Louis Ignarro before his career as Herbalife shill once won a Nobel Prize:
Claudio Napoli, Lilach O Lerman , Filomena De Nigris , Joseph Loscalzo , Louis J Ignarro Glycoxidized low-density lipoprotein downregulates endothelial nitricoxide synthase in human coronary cells Journal of the American College of Cardiology (2002) doi: 10.1016/s0735-1097(02)02306-9
The Italo-American Nobelist actually has a long history of fake science with his Neapolitan buddy Claudio Napoli, read here:
Fake data and real pomegranate juice in Nobelist Louis Ignarro’s papers
Louis J. Ignarro knew how to monetize his 1998 Nobel Prize for discovery of nitric oxide as molecular cell signalling agent. He made many millions selling dietary supplement for Herbalife and pomegranate juice for POM Wonderful Company. Some of that found its way (without proper conflict of interest declaration) into Ignarro’s peer reviewed papers. Those,…
These days, Loscalzo is into bioinformatics, where there are no images to be scrutinised. Still, some months ago, his recent bioinformatics papers received PubPeer criticisms, see for example Cheng et al 2018 or Wang & Loscalzo 2023. Yet a number of comments were moderated by PubPeer (which by no means implies they were wrong). In any case, someone started to share those PubPeer links with me and probably with other people. Soon, someone else reacted.
This email was sent to multiple recipients by “TogetherJoe@proton.me” on 29 September 2023:
Together Joe: We are here to protect Joe Loscalzo
Dear Science Integrity Investigators,
We are gathered here to protect Dr. Loscalzo. We will do our best to protect Dr. Loscalzo from constant slander, research integrity allegations, and defamation directed at Dr. Loscalzo. Please ignore any malicious emails and PubPeer comments by bad actors. Dr. Loscalzo’s papers have no ethical issues. Please contact us anytime. We will always be with Dr. Loscalzo’s colleagues.
Best,
Jennie Lee
Manager & Coordinator
Together Joe
We are stronger together with Joe Loscalzo
Boston, MA, USA
New York, NY, USA
Seoul, South Korea
As a reminder, Loscalzo’s papers were retracted for fraud. After I asked what they have been drinking, this “Jennie Lee” replied with:
Temple of Stolen Pig Materials
“This is a fight between two distinguished academics and the University at which they have tenure over a Pig Model….”
On 30 September 2023, same “Jennie Lee” from TogetherJoe@proton.me sent this round email:
Together Joe: The highest ethical standards
Dear Science Integrity Investigators,
We are gathered here to protect Dr. Loscalzo. We will do our best to protect Dr. Loscalzo from constant slander, research integrity allegations, and defamation directed at Dr. Loscalzo.
Dr. Loscalzo is a world-renowned scholar in the field of redox vascular biology and a leading figure in the academic medicine. He also has a more cool-headed awareness and philosophy of research ethics than anyone else. We are here to stop the reckless defamation of Dr. Loscalzo and baseless attacks on his papers. Please ignore any malicious concerns and conspiracies. Please contact us at any time.
Through the following papers, we can see Dr. Loscalzo’s extraordinary achievements and rigorous sense of research ethics.
Leopold J. A. (2010). Redox Pioneer: Professor Joseph Loscalzo. Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, 13(7), 1125–1132. https://doi.org/10.1089/ars.2010.3205
Loscalzo J. (2012). Irreproducible experimental results: causes, (mis)interpretations, and consequences. Circulation, 125(10), 1211–1214. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.098244
Anversa, P., Kajstura, J., Leri, A., & Loscalzo, J. (2011). Tissue-specific adult stem cells in the human lung. Nature Medicine, 17(9), 1038–1039. https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.2463
This was attached to the email:
As for the recommended reading: the 2011 Nature Medicine study by three convicted fraudsters and Loscalzo relies on their retracted NEJM paper from 2011. That’s why it was criticised on PubPeer, with comments “The existence of c-kit-positive human lung stem cells has not yet been proven” and “Figure 1 seems to come from the retracted study“:
There, Loscalzo personally replied ob PubPeer in May 2023 with “Thank you for this attention. I will look into this point.” Indeed, Loscalzo is a champion of research ethics and reproducible science, as we were instructed to read his 2012 editorial “Irreproducible Experimental Results”. It opens with, uhm, climate change denialism, but actually is meant to indirectly defend Loscalzo’s and Anversa’s fake stem cell research from criticism:
The Together Joe campaign continued. This was sent by TogetherJoe@proton.me on 4 October 2023:
Together Joe: We are growing to protect Joe Loscalzo
Dear Colleagues,
We are gathered here to protect Dr. Loscalzo. We will do our best to protect Dr. Loscalzo from constant slander, research integrity allegations, and defamation directed at Dr. Loscalzo.
We are growing to protect Dr. Loscalzo. Outstanding researchers from Boston, New York, Providence, Bethesda, Seoul, and Daejeon have joined. We are stronger together with our outstanding scientists with the highest ethical standards.
Please ignore any malicious PubPeer comments. Dr. Loscalzo’s papers have no ethical issues. Please contact us anytime. We will always be with Dr. Loscalzo’s colleagues.
Best,
Jennie Lee
Manager & Coordinator
Together Joe
We are stronger together with Joe Loscalzo
Boston, MA, USA
New York, NY, USA
Providence, RI, USA
Bethesda, MD, USA
Seoul, South Korea
Daejeon, South Korea
Obviously, also Elisabeth Bik was a recipient of these emails. So she had a look, and here she found image duplications “with a rotation and the removal of some features“:
Jane A. Leopold, Jennifer Walker , Anne W. Scribner , Barbara Voetsch , Ying-Yi Zhang , Alexander J. Loscalzo , Robert C. Stanton , Joseph Loscalzo Glucose-6-phosphate Dehydrogenase Modulates Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-mediated Angiogenesis Journal of Biological Chemistry (2003)
doi: 10.1074/jbc.m301293200
The co-author Alex Loscalzo is according to his LinkedIn a trained chef and since 2006 he cooks as Cardiovascular Physiology CORE Operation manager at Brigham & Women’s. He must be, a wild stab in the dark now, Little Jo’s son.
Here, Elisabeth found a fake gel:
Joshua A. F. Balderman , Hae‐Young Lee , Christopher E. Mahoney , Diane E. Handy , Kevin White , Sofia Annis , Djamel Lebeche , Roger J. Hajjar , Joseph Loscalzo, Jane A. Leopold Bone morphogenetic protein-2 decreases microRNA-30b and microRNA-30c to promote vascular smooth muscle cell calcification Journal of the American Heart Association (2012) doi: 10.1161/jaha.112.003905
More fake gels to prove that “Dr. Loscalzo’s papers have no ethical issues“:
Yinke Yang , Joseph Loscalzo Regulation of Tissue Factor Expression in Human Microvascular Endothelial Cells by Nitric Oxide Circulation (2000) doi: 10.1161/01.cir.101.18.2144
And why did someone paint a black dot where one was determined to find a gel band, almost three decades ago?
B Pasche , H Ouimet , S Francis , J Loscalzo Structural changes in platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa by plasmin: determinants and functional consequences Blood (1994) Jan 15;83(2):404-14.
More of the “reckless defamation of Dr. Loscalzo and baseless attacks on his papers“:
Geoffrey A. Walford , Rose-Laure Moussignac , Anne W. Scribner , Joseph Loscalzo , Jane A. Leopold Hypoxia Potentiates Nitric Oxide-mediated Apoptosis in Endothelial Cells via Peroxynitrite-induced Activation of Mitochondria-dependent and -independent Pathways Journal of Biological Chemistry (2004) doi: 10.1074/jbc.m310582200
Even more dodgy data found by Elisabeth:
Reza Aghamohammadzadeh , Ying‐Yi Zhang , Thomas E. Stephens , Elena Arons , Paula Zaman , Kevin J. Polach , Majed Matar , Lai‐Ming Yung , Paul B. Yu , Frederick P. Bowman , Alexander R. Opotowsky , Aaron B. Waxman , Joseph Loscalzo, Jane A. Leopold , Bradley A. Maron Up‐regulation of the mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 subunit Raptor by aldosterone induces abnormal pulmonary artery smooth muscle cell survival patterns to promote pulmonary arterial hypertension The FASEB Journal (2016) doi: 10.1096/fj.201500042
So Loscalzo’s sock-puppets had to act again. This was sent from the account “AliceShah99@protonmail.com” on 13 October 2023:
“Save Joseph Loscalzo – Concern about PubPeer comments
Dear Researchers,
I hope this email finds you well. I am a medical student who enthusiastically enjoys Dr. Joseph Loscalzo’s medical bible, Harrison’s Internal Medicine. Recently, I learned that a world-renowned sociopathic detractor, Dr. Elisabeth Bik maliciously attacked Dr. Joseph Loscalzo’s papers. Dr. Bik’s defamatory PubPeer comments, for example, fake western blot issues, are clearly malicious. https://pubpeer.com/search?q=Loscalzo We all know that Dr. Joseph Loscalzo’s papers are clean and most PubPeer comments are misinformation and trivial things. Please ignore any defamatory emails and PubPeer comments. Let’s protect Dr. Joseph Loscalzo.
Yours sincerely,
Alice Shah”
After I replied-all describing Loscalzo as a dirty old man with female sock-puppets and fake data in his papers, my email was forwarded to Retraction Watch by a male sock-puppet named “Louis Mo” (LouisMo10@protonmail.com), with this plea for justice:
But of course even Loscalzo’s imaginary lady friends Jennie and Alice, just like “Little Jo” himself, will know that the evidence is undeniable. So this defence plan was deployed in parallel, sent by “davidsal9@protonmail.com” on 17 October 2023:
“A prominent cardiologist Jane Leopold at Harvard Medical School ruined Joseph Loscalzo by manipulating her Western blot images.
Jane Leopold is a snob who praises Joseph Loscalzo. See her snobbery article “Redox Pioneer: Professor Joseph Loscalzo.”
- Leopold J. A. (2010). Redox Pioneer: Professor Joseph Loscalzo. Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, 13(7), 1125–1132. https://doi.org/10.1089/ars.2010.3205
She, however, manipulated numerous images in her papers published in prestigious cardiology journals. Her PubPeer page is impressive.
https://pubpeer.com/search?q=Jane+Leopold
Jane Leopold blesses Cardiology by publishing faking data in Joseph Loscalzo’s papers.
Where did she learn her Photoshop skills? Loscalzo, yes.
One could wonder why an old rich white man turns from impersonating imaginary women to trolling and scapegoating of a real one, even if she is not entirely innocent. The Harvard professor Jane Leopold, now director of the Women’s Interventional Cardiology Health Initiative at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, did not protest when I asked her if it’s OK to cite this email. It is indeed impressive what Leopold learned in Loscalzo’s lab:
Lahouaria Hadri, Razmig G Kratlian , Ludovic Benard , Bradley A Maron , Peter Dorfmüller , Dennis Ladage , Christophe Guignabert , Kiyotake Ishikawa , Jaume Aguero , Borja Ibanez , Irene C Turnbull , Erik Kohlbrenner , Lifan Liang , Krisztina Zsebo , Marc Humbert , Jean-Sébastien Hulot , Yoshiaki Kawase , Roger J Hajjar , Jane A Leopold Therapeutic efficacy of AAV1.SERCA2a in monocrotaline-induced pulmonary arterial hypertension Circulation (2013) doi: 10.1161/circulationaha.113.001585
Stereonephthya cundabiluensis: “In the SERCA2a panel, there are unusual white areas, which seem to be discontinuous with the surrounding background”
The last SERCA2a lane is also digitally manipulated.
Loscalzo is sure great in making money with bullshit, but he is really awful in trolling. And while it looks really bad for an old rich white man to invent female sock-puppets, that poem he wrote about himself is even worse!
Update 5.12.2023
Loscalzo is indeed a troll. His female sockpuppets commented under this article as “Alice”, “Kimb” and “Miss. Kim”. On 4 December 2023, Retraction Watch brought an article titled “Cyberstalking pits Harvard professor against PubPeer“, which ended with:
“After declining several interview requests, Loscalzo forwarded an email showing that on November 8, someone using a Proton Mail account had submitted a manuscript titled “Abilify Network medicine: Drug repurposing of aripiprazole in cardiovascular diseases” to Preprints.org, a server for archiving scholarly works in advance of publication. Loscalzo and several of his colleagues were listed as authors, but had never heard of the article, he wrote in an email to Preprints.org.
“No doubt, after the paper is published, the plan would be for the malicious culprit to post errors on PubPeer that would be used to defame us yet again,” Loscalzo said.”
Yeah right. Also these fake papers, recently flagged by Elisabeth Bik, were published without Little Joe’s knowledge, I presume.
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They are …. literally crazy group.
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Something about Harvard.
https://www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/judy-lieberman-md-phd/
Problematic data:
https://pubpeer.com/search?q=Judy+Lieberman+
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/barbara-b-kahn
https://pubpeer.com/search?q=Barbara+b+kahn
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Judy Lieberman featured in Friday Shorts!
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Harvard will likely take 10 years to address Joseph Loscalzo’s problematic data. That’s how long it took Harvard to start addressing Professor Edward E Whang’s problematic data.
https://www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/edward-e-whang-md/
https://retractionwatch.com/?s=Edward+whang
5 retractions
http://retractiondatabase.org/RetractionSearch.aspx#?auth%3dWhang%252c%2bEdward%2bE
One Withdrawal, J Biol Chem uses the word withdrawal instead of retraction
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37429045/
Therefore 6 retractions.
Looks like another 10-15 Edward E Whang/Mark Duxbury papers contain significant problematic data.
https://pubpeer.com/search?q=Whang+duxbury
Harvard has enormous financial resources. It could employ some of these resources to address problematic data in a timely way.
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C Ronald Kahn, Harvard, seems to up to 4 retractions now.
http://retractiondatabase.org/RetractionSearch.aspx#?auth%3dKahn%252c%2bCarl%2bRonald
Earlier Retraction Watch article mentioned 3 retractions.
C Ronald Kahn, problematic data +++
https://pubpeer.com/search?q=Ronald+kahn
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Sam W Lee was from Harvard
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Ron Kahn.
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Sam W Lee, Harvard.
https://retractionwatch.com/category/by-author/sam-w-lee/
Looks like 5 retractions, plus expressions of concern, and corrections.
http://retractiondatabase.org/RetractionSearch.aspx#?auth%3dLee%252c%2bSam%2bW
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Joseph Loscalzo “was” untouchable. By the way, Loscalzo invented a questionable bioinformatics field called “Network Medicine.”
https://www.network-medicine.org/history
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This Albert-László Barabási sounds like one of these geniuses we can’t have enough of. I suggest Orban appoints him as Hungary’s minister of science and re-education.
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A 70 year-old white millionaire is working on Quantum physics. Groundbreaking!
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05486
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Of course, Loscalzo is also good at bioinformatics. Interesting network medicine PubPeer threads:
https://pubpeer.com/publications/7D0F773579AB34E718D7843147F0A0
https://pubpeer.com/publications/5ABA3706473B3A309B1C04D09A760F
https://pubpeer.com/publications/69444089728C812CDD99561C735052
https://pubpeer.com/publications/A930756DF7BE764722967A1A2F1396
https://pubpeer.com/publications/4BF224545A26BFBF422A2F2FE7F567
https://pubpeer.com/publications/D9546BB1747354DA5DCCB4D510AA00
https://pubpeer.com/publications/38BCA4F5036D5FCCADF8259A6EBB18
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“Do your organization’s ethics resonate with your own values? If not, your career will likely be marked by frustration and poor performance.”
― Harvard Business School Press, HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself
See? Jo simply found an institution that resonates with his own values. Greed and vanity.
Got to admire their business model, though.
Harvard… Joseph Loscalzo… a circus…
‘… if ignorance is a disease, Harvard Yard is the Wuhan wet market.’
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Given Loscalzo’s sockpuppet’s emails, it is worth mentioning a former Korean Loscalzo lab member, Prof. Hae-Young Lee, MD, PhD at Seoul National University:
https://pubpeer.com/search?q=Hae-Young+Lee
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Love the poem. I think this kind of response should be encouraged.
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20XX Nobel Prize in Literature: Joseph Loscalzo!
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“…mega-fraudster Piero Anversa in inventing fictional heart stem cells.”
Pietro Anversa and Jan Kajstura show how in Diabetes p53 rotates and flips.
How much Diabetes can there be? Whole journals dedicated to it, yet the problem gets worse and worse (methinks it is obesity-driven for the most part).
The journal Diabetes published, and still publishes this:
https://pubpeer.com/publications/B37740A0944F40B6B31B1502438547
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David Panka, Harvard.
3 retractions, and an Expression of Concern.
http://retractiondatabase.org/RetractionSearch.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1#?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport%3d1%26auth%3dPanka%252c%2bDavid%2bJ
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Leo Otterbein, Harvard.
https://www.bidmc.org/research/research-by-department/surgery/transplant-surgery/leo-otterbein/leo-otterbein-lab
2 retractions.
http://retractiondatabase.org/RetractionSearch.aspx#?auth%3dOtterbein%252c%2bLeo%2bE
Problematic data ++
https://pubpeer.com/search?q=Otterbein
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Michael Simons, presently at Yale, problematic data during time at Harvard.
https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/michael-simons/
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/10/05/yale-prof-found-guilty-of-sexual-harassment-can-move-forward-in-discrimination-suit-judge-rules/
Problematic data at Harvard.
Expression of Concern.
https://pubpeer.com/publications/6B9A9EAC0D029088ACBEB195AE7429
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/135/20/jcs260635/277380/Expression-of-Concern-Increased-responsiveness-of
Problematic data Harvard
https://pubpeer.com/publications/86DDE479023793B6C2499E0ED842D6
https://pubpeer.com/publications/E95EA3498B83BEBA897E0684839284
https://pubpeer.com/publications/49F0131D182D497A924495F4039EB1
Problematic data Yale.
https://pubpeer.com/publications/2A1BC81F9389049F704D9C4EB4DB13
Problematic data Dartmouth.
https://pubpeer.com/publications/3271572D52628B681137593B647322
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Harvard and cardiology. Perhaps it has never been any good. Under the old system, before there were any places that people could post and share their concerns, was the case of John Darsee.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Darsee
Funny how his boss, Eugene Braunwald, couldn’t find any problems.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Braunwald
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“Worse, even some of Anversa’s critics are bad scientists themselves, like Jeffery Molkentin at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital”
This one seems pretty bad, but nothing happens.
https://pubpeer.com/publications/031AF3103536BB0834E78D4ECF265A
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You have to admire the technicians in Eugene Braunwald’s lab for pointing out that John Darsee’s mountain of results was not possible. That may have come with a cost to themselves.
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Looks like M Celeste Simon is joining the circus (HHMI and UPenn).
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“But Loscalzo didn’t really need Anversa to produce fake science, a visit to PubPeer is quite informative. This evidence of a bizarrely fake loading control gel (one gel band copy-pasted 7 times!) rots on PubPeer for 7 years already, the first author Paul C Kuo became professor at University of South Florida.”
Is going from chief of surgery at Loyola, a well established medical school, to Florida a step up, or a step down?
https://pubpeer.com/search?q=Paul+c+kuo
Paul C Kuo problematic data
https://pubpeer.com/search?q=Paul+c+kuo
6 retractions.
http://retractiondatabase.org/RetractionSearch.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1#?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport%3d1%26auth%3dKuo%252c%2bPaul%2bC
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Step up or step down, important is that academia always has a well-paid job for a research fraudster in trouble.
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Paul C Kuo blamed the software.
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5/6 retractions are first author from this guy:
https://www.dukehealth.org/find-doctors-physicians/h-michael-guo-md-phd
Clearly, a great american success story from an aspirational immigrant! Come to US, commit fraud, and make it big! Love the way he tries to americanize his first name. Props!
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Joseph Loscalzo’s “Irreproducible Experimental Results” published in Circulation is a masterpiece of research ethics. Cited 37 times.
https://badge.dimensions.ai/details/id/pub.1029523516
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Here are Leonid Schneider’s defamatory emails:
“Dear all,
I feel awkward to criticize an old rich white man who decides in his retirement age to impersonate a woman. But Joe Loscalzo impersonates several women, and sends you all these emails as Alice, Jennie etc, so at some point this is not about sexual freedom and diversity. Joe simply looks like a dirty old man. A dirty old man with fake data in his papers. At least his buddy Anversa did not invent female sockpuppets.
Best wishes
Leonid Schneider
PS: Joe even writes sodding poems about himself! See this other silly email:”
“Since someone made this mailing list, why not using it?
https://forbetterscience.com/2023/10/23/joe-loscalzos-drag-show/“
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Hi Joe!
Email: AliceShah99@protonmail.com
Whois: http://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/198.98.51.35 (IP: 198.98.51.35)
Staten Island, NYC.
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I am surprised that I was surprised that Joseph Loscalzo did not go around the same time as Charles Vacanti.
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According to Together Joe’s emails, Loscalzo’s ladies live here. It seems that they are actively defending their fake science.
Boston, MA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Providence, RI, USA; Bethesda, MD, USA; Seoul, South Korea; Daejeon, South Korea
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Joe (and in consequence the ‘Together’- movement should be old enough to know the Streisand effect, shouldn’t he/they?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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Alice is back! With an email to RW blaming Asians! Joe, stop it. Nobody likes racists.
“I know the facts well because my friend used to work in Loscalzo’s lab. Leonid Schneider’s article (https://forbetterscience.com/2023/10/23/joe-loscalzos-drag-show/) distorts reality. Loscalzo’s research ethics issues were mostly raised by Piero Anversa and some Chinese and Korean researchers. For example, Rui-Sheng Wang, Augustine M.K. Choi, Hae-Young Lee, Yinke Yang, Paul Kuo, Seung C. Kim, Feixiong Cheng, etc. are the main culprits of data manipulation. This is not scapegoating, it is a clear fact. Loscalzo is innocent. Please do not join the baseless defamation campaign against the Loscalzo’s group.
Thanks,
Alice
P.S. Joseph Loscalzo is a legend in American academic medicine. Why do people hate academic medicine?”
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New sockpuppet writes in!
Name:
Dr. Lee
Email:
leey1902@gmail.com
Joseph Loscalzo is an established physician-scientist and has no ethical issues. So not weaponize malicious PubPeer comments. Your post is clearly defamatory and illegal. You should delete your post and apologize.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Lee
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Harvard’s endowment is only 50.7 billion US dollars.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/20/endowment-returns-fy23/
It must be impossible to use any of it for scientific integrity purposes.
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Bruce Spiegelman, Harvard.
https://cellbio.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/bruce-spiegelman
Problematic data.
https://pubpeer.com/search?q=Bruce+Spiegelman
Does “irisin” exist?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/irisin#:~:text=The%20existence%20of%20human%20irisin,region%20of%20the%20FNDC5%20protein.
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Augustine Choi’s friends are the leadership of BWH.
Current BWH Chair of Medicine: Bruce Levy
https://pubpeer.com/search?q=%22Bruce+D.+Levy%22
BWH Chair of Network Medicine Division: Edwin Silverman
https://pubpeer.com/search?q=%22Edwin+K.+Silverman%22
Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, and Soma Weiss Distinguished Chair in Medicine: Joseph Loscalzo
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Alex Loscalzo is son of Joe.
See the article below “Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD: A Conversation With the Editor”
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2005.12.021
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Curious about Loscalzo and Journal’s opinions regarding this situation.
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Jane Leopold is Deputy Editor of New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Joseph Loscalzo is Editorial Board member. Love their NEJM.
https://www.nejm.org/about-nejm/editors-and-publishers
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https://pubpeer.com/publications/B229E5912F3098C41492962FABB638
Another image manipulation issue raised by Elisabeth Bik.
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