COPE, the publishers’ Trojan horse, calls to abolish retractions
Four private scientists without any agenda whatsoever published a research result preprint on the portal BioRxiv. The “new results” reportedContinue Reading
Author: Leonid Schneider
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist.
Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470
Will words or actual evidence count in the Walles case?
On March 16th I stood a court trial by the trachea transplanters and University of Würzburg professors Heike and ThorstenContinue Reading
Retraction, and another looming misconduct finding for Macchiarini and Jungebluth
The misconduct-tainted paper on oesophagus transplants in rats (Sjöqvist et al 2014) by the fallen star of regenerative medicine Paolo Macchiarini isContinue Reading
The Kenneth Chien Case at Karolinska, by Johan Thyberg
This is a new guest post from Johan Thyberg, a retired professor for cell and molecular biology from Sweden, aContinue Reading
Walles tracheal transplant patients: secrets and lies
The German trachea transplanters Heike and Thorsten Walles fitted three patients with pig-intestine-based airway grafts. They responded to my inquisitiveContinue Reading
Würzburg misconduct Commission acquits Walles, dismisses biased medical expert, restarts anew as data manipulations flood in
The University of Würzburg did not ignore the Open Letter in support of my journalism, and has concluded its internalContinue Reading
Three retractions and lost court case for zombie Susana Gonzalez
The Spanish zombie scientist Susana González, former star of regenerative medicine and ageing research, now retracts two papers in NatureContinue Reading
The stinking fish of Strasbourg
A 2014 publication from the lab of Laurence Maréchal-Drouard, director of CNRS IBMP institute in Strasbourg, seems to contain evidence of inappropriate data manipulation. Other versions of this problematic figure appear in 2 PhD dissertations supervised by Drouard
My Walles trachea transplant reporting fails peer review
My attempt recently to inform the readers of the journal Tissue Engineering Part A about grave omissions and factual inconsistenciesContinue Reading
DFG decision: Antonia Joussen innocent victim of co-authors’ data manipulations
“The committee […] requests of you for future publications to assess well ahead and to question critically your responsibility for the contributions of the co-authors, also for your own protection.”
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