ERC on Susana González’ suspended €2Mio grant: peer reviewers to spot manipulations
Spain is rocked by two misconduct scandals involving biomedical researchers Sonia Melo and Susana González. The latter has been sackedContinue Reading
Science journalism by Leonid Schneider, on research integrity and academic publishing in life sciences and biomedicine
Spain is rocked by two misconduct scandals involving biomedical researchers Sonia Melo and Susana González. The latter has been sackedContinue Reading
The trachea-transplant “super- surgeon” Paolo Macchiarini seems to be sitting out the Swedish investigations of his misconduct and patients’ deathsContinue Reading
Germany is set to transform its academic publishing to Open Access (OA). Gold OA model, where the articles are published inContinue Reading
The Paolo Macchiarini scandal draws wider circles, and unfortunately, it involves more unnecessary patient deaths though questionable tracheal transplants, thisContinue Reading
In July 2015 I was contacted by a concerned reader, asking me to place on PubPeer on his behalf aContinue Reading
A paper with reference to “The Creator” in PLOS One, titled “Biomechanical characteristics of Hand Coordination in Grasping Activities of DailyContinue Reading
Sonia Melo, the Portuguese scientist accused of data manipulation and misconduct, now loses her EMBO Installation Grant funding by the EuropeanContinue Reading
Michael Blatt, Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Plant Physiology, is backContinue Reading
This is a story of western blot, which might be holding the current record of re-use. While other papers areContinue Reading
Frontiers now retracts the paper by the retired surgeon Ivo P. Janecka “Sensing risk, fearing uncertainty: systems science approach toContinue Reading