My heart belongs to Daddy, So I simply couldn’t be bad
“A complex fraud involving a Greek scientist and her network of international researchers has been uncovered by investigators from the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF).”
Author: Leonid Schneider
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist.
Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470
l’Amoura pour la cigarette Changeux tout COVID-19
Have you been hoarding COVID-19 survival necessities? Soap, disinfectant, toilet paper? Stockpile cigarettes, as many as you can get, if you want to survive the coronavirus. Science has Spoken.
“Supposing you brought the light inside the body”
Another instalment of grifting quackery in COVID-19 pandemic. Cedars-Sinai scientists and their biotech partners Aytu Biosciences want to light you up from inside, just as President Trump suggested.
Chloroquine witchdoctor Didier Raoult: barking mad and dangerous
Is the inventor of chloroquine cure for COVID-19, the French microbiologist Didier Raoult, sane? But then again, is anyone these days?
Losing research ethics and mental health in Daley lab
A former Harvard postdoc from the lab of George Q Daley tells his story.
Stem cells to cure COVID-19 because why not
Israeli scientists discovered a cure for coronavirus! Their proprietary PLX cells from placenta deliver 100% survival rate both against COVID-19 and a nuclear holocaust. The stocks soar.
Bullshitter Mauro Ferrari out as ERC President
Mauro Ferrari was made to resign as ERC president. In his 3 months in office, he published a ridiculously fraudulent paper with Houston colleagues. Now Ferrari announces from his Texas lockdown “trenches” to cure COVID-19.
Swedish scientists call for evidence-based policy on COVID-19
Swedish academics Nele Brusselaers, Lynn Kamerlin and Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede react to COVID-19 pandemic and ask Swedish authorities: “Yes, it is important to avoid panic – but is it not better to be over-prepared?”
Chloroquine genius Didier Raoult to save the world from COVID-19
As COVID19 pandemic rages on, French microbiologist Didier Raoult offers a cure. President Trump is convinced, but is Raoult’s research reliable, here and in general?
Amato Giaccia: too big to fall
A 2006 Nature paper from Stanford is retracted. We all know the first author Janine Erler, but why is nobody talking of its last author, Amato Giaccia? I celebrate here another Oxford star scientist.
