Karolinska embarrasses itself to save two professors
The Swedish Karolinska Institutet (KI) is going through turbulent times. The Paolo Macchiarini scandal sensitised the European elite biomedical research centreContinue Reading
Author: Leonid Schneider
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist.
Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470
Hannover Medical School MHH: where doctor careers matter more than patient lives?
Philipp Jungebluth, formerly right-hand man and student of the lethal trachea transplant surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, is threatening another lawsuit againstContinue Reading
The Costs of Knowledge: scientists want their cut on the scam
Publishers won’t pay YOU for peer review.
The PubPeer Stars of Weizmann Institute
Rony Seger, Jacob Hanna, Ilana Kolodkin-Gal, Atan Gross, Sima Lev, Tsvee Lapidot, Moshe Oren, Varda Rotter and others. Let’s celebrate the Weizmann Science!
Yoshinori Watanabe data manipulations: much worse than officially presented
Earlier this months, a research misconduct scandal in molecular cell biology broke out in the big news. Yoshinori Watanabe,Continue Reading
The one who asked questions: interview with Johannes Wahlström, by Alla Astakhova
Below I am re-publishing an interview which the Russian health journalist Alla Astakhova conducted with the Swedish journalist Johannes Wahlström.Continue Reading
Unpublished Macchiarini manuscript confirms 5 forgotten trachea transplant patients
7.09.2017 This article was slapped with an injunction by Berlin court (here), on behalf of Jungebluth. Sentences forbidden by injunctionContinue Reading
Voinnet’s sidekick Dunoyer welcomed at Nature Plants, despite retractions and admitted misconduct
The Olivier Voinnet scandal of almost two decades-long research misconduct and data manipulations has reached its logical conclusion. The FrenchContinue Reading
Data integrity conspiracy against German research senator Roland Lill?
Roland Lill is the quiet star of German molecular biology. The 63-year old professor works at the University of Marburg,Continue Reading
Human Brain Project and other Flagships: is EU outsourcing funding decisions?
The EU €1-Billion-Flagship Human Brain Project (HBP) started in 2013 as an closed enterprise run by three men. The triumvirate is noContinue Reading
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