UCL fibs Parliament about trachea transplants
The esteemed London university UCL seems to live in its own world. There, the regenerative medicine magic thrives, living organsContinue Reading
Author: Leonid Schneider
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist.
Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470
Image reuse, the new low of UCL trachea transplanter Martin Birchall?
With his three trachea transplant clinical trials suspended, the British laryngologist and UCL professor Martin Birchall now tries to pull at leastContinue Reading
Christmas messages from Professor Turner, his ex-protégé under investigation Tiwari, and Elsevier
My earlier article about the fake Linköping University professor Ashutosh Tiwari and his scam of predatory conferences and journals, madeContinue Reading
Nature rewards data manipulation with a Mentoring Award
In Spain, there seems to be a tradition of reacting to emerging evidence of data manipulation with handing out prestigiousContinue Reading
Karl Lenhard Rudolph barred from DFG funding for 2 years, as supportive peers flock to his conference
More bad news for Karl Lenhard Rudolph: misconduct findings and 2 year funding ban from DFG. Good news: the international scientific community stands to him in solidarity, no retractions, even some corrections won’t be implemented.
Predatory conferences and other scams of false Swedish professor Ashutosh Tiwari
Ashutosh Tiwari, former employee of Linköping University, built an entire industry of predatory publishing and conferences, which hosted many among the material science research elite, all from a small rented office in the industrial area of Linköping. Tiwari’s genius trick was to play at the vanity and greed of certain academics.
Appeal to Italian Parliament for an investigation into trachea transplants in Florence by Paolo Macchiarini
This is an Open Letter I sent today by email to the Italian Senate and its Health Committee, appealing forContinue Reading
How Irun Cohen and Weizmann Institute almost cured diabetes
This is a new episode of the data manipulation affair around Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel (and another guestContinue Reading
Jungebluth injunction hearing, another court travesty
Yesterday, November 23rd 2017, I travelled 600 km to Berlin to stand my second injunction trial, instigated by Philipp Jungebluth,Continue Reading
Tissue-engineered tracheas: an assessment of the scientific, clinical and ethical implications
Here I republish the written evidence submitted to by two UK scientists to the Science and Technology Committee of the BritishContinue Reading
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