Faking Raw Data with an Iron Fist
“you can rest your concerns. As you can see, we have not manipulated any images.” – Dr Arati Ramesh
Author: Leonid Schneider
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist.
Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470
Schneider Shorts 2.07.2021- Rethink Evolution!
Schneider Shorts 2.07.2021: fraudulent COVID-19 quackery gets learned society approval, China colonizes Mars, CNRS explains the difference between plagiarism and “unacknowledged borrowings”, with Botox against depression from Germany, Nasal Telomere Extension from Harvard and Eugenics Superhero Vaccines from Stanford, and Smut Clyde slandering Ukrainians behind my back.
Requiem for Celixir
How the Nobel Prize winner Sir Martin Evans and the lying crook Ajan Reginald almost succeeded, were it not for Patricia Murray.
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition!
“Recently we realized that some images were used wrongly in the paper, so I want to retract this article.
The key message of the paper is very solid and results have been reproduced independently in many laboratories, but I find unacceptable the wrong use of some images during figure preparation” – Pedro L Rodriguez
Whodunit in Bulgaria
A microbiology institute in Sofia is investigating a string of problematic papers on arthritis. Lead author Nina Ivanovska: “I consider myself the major culprit”. She might be right.
Schneider Shorts 25.06.2021: Telomere-Stretching Time
Schneider Shorts 25.06.2021: telomere stretching in Milan and other COVID-19 cures, Best Lab Leak Ever Award, the elusive Pandolfi, coffee and chocolate, and hooray, Raoult & Chabriere finally announced on Twitter to sue yours truly in Marseille.
Raoult. Une folie française: book review by Alexander Samuel
A critical review of a recent book about chloroquine guru Didier Raoult and the many French politicians who let him operate above the law.
Schneider Shorts 18.06.2021- Papermill Heroes Revealed
Schneider Shorts 18.06.2021: job openings (but not in Marseille!), old Soviet bioweapon lab leaks, eternal life with coffee, pregnant male rats, Chinese paper mill dramas, and how Wiley may have accidentally revealed the identities of Smut Clyde and Tiger BB8!
How to cure all diseases
“I have a passion to solve a problem that is facing millions. I could have a job that makes more money, has normal hours, but this is where I should be right now.” Dr Leen Kawas, CEO of Althira Pharma
Schneider Shorts 11.06.2021: bodily effusions
Schneider Shorts 11.06.2021: Mayo Clinic quietly passing on problematic professors, UK and Switzerland defining research misconduct, COVID-19 quackeries and how sperm and faeces can make you afraid.
For Better Science 