Human Brain Project: bureaucratic success despite scientific failure
The EU €1-Billion-Flagship Human Brain Project (HBP) has passed its midterm evaluation with flying colours. Noone knows exactly what theContinue Reading
Author: Leonid Schneider
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist.
Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470
The vexatious life-saving question of cadaveric tracheas
As we learned it from the Swedish documentary „Experimenten“, the scandal trachea surgeon Paolo Macchiarini didn’t much like to operateContinue Reading
The travelling circus of research integrity in Strasbourg
On March 8, an international scientific review board will be evaluating the research at the French CNRS Institut de Biologie MoléculaireContinue Reading
Image duplication and other irregularities of Heike and Thorsten Walles
More inconsistencies arise in publications and statements of the litigation-happy professors of the University of Würzburg, Heike and Thorsten Walles.Continue Reading
Evidence is a lie, listen to our authority, say Walles to scientists
The Würzburg regenerative medicine researchers Heike and Thorsten Walles, joined by their colleague Jan Hansmann, are now hitting back atContinue Reading
Jungebluth achieves court injunction against me, because he published in The Lancet
The trachea transplant doctor and acolyte of Paolo Macchiarini, Philipp Jungebluth, followed up on his previous legal threat to meContinue Reading
Ryan’s mentor Dow whitewashed after abusing copyright to combat my reporting
Robert Ryan’s mentor Maxwell Dow used the legal means of DMCA take-down to attack my reporting, pretending to act on behalf of his University College Cork. UCC remained silent and refused to apologise. Dow was later absolved of all suspicions of research misconduct.
No animal testing before Walles tracheal transplants, admits Fraunhofer Society
The tracheal transplant experiments on three human patients were performed by the German scientists Heike and Throsten Walles without anyContinue Reading
Open Letter in support of my investigation of trachea transplants in Germany, by Rafael Cantera
Below a support letter by Rafael Cantera, professor of zoology at the University of Stockholm in Sweden, addressed to theContinue Reading
The western blot doctors of Silesia
Three whistleblowers reported the Polish medicine professor Bozena Gabryel and colleagues for data manipulation. Will the universities do anything now?
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