Karolinska in denial, by Johan Thyberg
This is a guest post by Johan Thyberg, a 1947-born Swedish biologist and a well-known activist against science fraud. HisContinue Reading
Author: Leonid Schneider
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist.
Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470
Chocolate health: advice by Thomas Lüscher and peer review by Jonas Malmstedt
Christmas season is the time to eat lots of chocolate. And as science teaches us, your confectionery is actually theContinue Reading
Two EMBO corrections for the martyred saint Maria Pia Cosma
The martyrdom of St Maria Pia.
Untangling forgotten tracheal transplants of Heike and Thorsten Walles, who set a lawyer upon me
This is the story of three tracheal transplants, performed by the husband and wife team Thorsten Walles and Heike MertschingContinue Reading
Kathrin Maedler loses Heisenberg Professorship, Diabetes award, found guilty of misconduct by DFG
“As a suitable and appropriate measure in accordance with the DFG procedural regulations, the Examination Board proposed to the main committee the withdrawal of the Heisenberg Professorship for Mädler, which was approved in 2014.”
Kathrin Maedler: persecuted genius or zombie scientist?
The prize-winning German pharmacologist and diabetes researcher Kathrin Maedler is regularly in the German and international news, either as aContinue Reading
Hannover thesis investigation and secret Heidelberg research of Philipp Jungebluth
The following article provoked a response by Philipp Jungebluth’s lawyer, presented here. A sentence was changed following a court injunction against me,Continue Reading
The Voinnet investigator and the tricky issue of conflict of interests
Great scientists never have any conflicts of interests, and in the case of the investigation of the research misconduct byContinue Reading
Post-publication peer review of a multimillion-dollar-heavy Nature paper
Is GPC1 from serum exosomes a marker to diagnose pancreatic cancer?
Business interests trump patient safety, says EU about trachea transplant trial
The European Union (EU) is firmly determined to see dozens of patients transplanted with “regenerated” tracheas made by the methodContinue Reading
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