Frontiers: vanquishers of Beall, publishers of bunk
It is now quasi official: do not mess with Frontiers. My earlier reporting made it a credible possibility that thisContinue Reading
Author: Leonid Schneider
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist.
Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470
EU commemorates dead patients of Macchiarini & Birchall with a phase 2 trachea transplant trial TETRA
The European Commission now took 40 days to deny my second Freedom of Information (FOI) Inquiry about the TETRA phaseContinue Reading
John Innes Centre director Dale Sanders rebuffs a non-peer reviewed internet troll
Regarding the Olivier Voinnet scandal and a recent data integrity case in Germany (marginally featuring a current group leader ofContinue Reading
Berlin court grants Jungebluth new injunction against my reporting
The Kafkaesque farce of court injunction trials from German trachea transplanters against me continues. The Landesgericht court in Berlin issuedContinue Reading
Voinnet’s CNRS investigator Catherine Jessus with own data integrity issues
More suspected data manipulations in the papers by the French elite biologists. It was funny enough when the director andContinue Reading
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
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
