Judge in Jungebluth trial announces to uphold his injunction, dismisses all evidence
Today I stood my second injunction trial (previous here), and once again, the evidence was irrelevant. Today’s trial of PhilippContinue Reading
Author: Leonid Schneider
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist.
Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470
CNRS lab of Voinnet’s right hand Patrice Dunoyer dissolved by director’s decree
The lab of Olivier Voinnet’s right hand man at IBMP Strasbourg has been dissolved. The news about the end of Patrice Dunoyer’s scientific career appeared on my site long before the information became official.
Sumitran-Holgersson and Olausson guilty of misconduct and unethical experiments on children
Game over apparently near for the indestructible Swedish regenerative medicine researcher Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson, after investigations at her University of Gothenburg drawContinue Reading
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
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
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