No good news, instead a major disaster in appeal court re: Macchiarini affair
The German justice has spoken on trachea transplants again, in the appeal hearing at Kammergericht Berlin, and found the problemContinue Reading
Author: Leonid Schneider
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist.
Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470
Zauli and University of Ferrara announce libel suit, criminal prosecution against me
The Rector of University of Ferrara, Giorgio Zauli, reacted to my reporting by announcing legal retaliation of both criminal and civil prosecution. He reported me to Italian State prosecutor and issued this threat in this official capacity, acting for his Italian university.
Cardiff: no misconduct by TCM professor Wen Jiang, report secret
Cardiff university declared their oncology professor and TCM peddler Wen Jiang innocent of any data manipulation. It then issued then a press release accusing me personally of having slandered Jiang with false allegations of misconduct.
French Biologists: CNRS-Sorbonne investigators “totally incompetent”, data manipulations in Jessus papers “intentionally fraudulent forgeries”
Sorbonne University in Paris, where the CNRS chief biologist Catherine Jessus, holds a professorship, delivered an outrageous whitewashing report about her manipulations. Now, an Open Letter has been published by around 10 unnamed French biologists. It plucks apart the Sorbonne report of Jessus papers.
Flawed cytometry of Rector Giorgio Zauli
Giorgio Zauli is Italian clinical haematologist and cancer researcher, Rector of the respected University of Ferrara. In this position he might soon be investigating his own papers for suspected data manipulation.
Macchiarini victim’s family sues trachea makers for wrongful death
Yesim Cetir was a young woman from Turkey, whose vulnerability the scandal surgeon used to test his plastic trachea (twice),Continue Reading
The Perennial Northern Blot of Lopez-Otin
Cancer researcher Carlos López-Otín published the same Northern blot no less than 23 times in 23 publications, between 1994 and 2006. Eventually Lopez-Otin et al even stopped caring what order of samples that original loading control had.
Zombie scientist Sonia Melo awarded by AstraZeneca
Sonia Melo is back, and not to be messed with. The Portuguese zombie scientist is responsible for a number ofContinue Reading
Trachea transplanters without borders
What with the EU phase 2 clinical trial TETRA going nowhere, the technology’s owner, Liverpool-based company Videregen decided to seek new clinical partners. Surgeons and universities from outside the EU are invited to test Videregen’s trachea transplant technology, which was originally developed together with Paolo Macchiarini by the UCL laryngologist and paid Videregen advisor Martin Birchall.
Linköping University and Tiwari’s predatory conferences
The predatory conferences organised by Ashutosh Tiwari became now a comparatively modest affair. Tiwari stopped pretending being a LiU professor and even ceased signing his conference invitations. Internet announcements for his conference scams became rather minimalistic, while conference programmes or lists of speakers are not released to participants and are apparently arranged on the spot.
