Claudia’s trachea
This is the English original of my story for Hipertextual, first published in Spanish on 27.10.2016. What did we learn from the tracheaContinue Reading
Author: Leonid Schneider
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist.
Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470
Dean acting outside his competence and the illusion of Freedom of Information in Germany
The Berlin head ophthalmologist Antonia Joussen once set her lawyer upon me, demanding up to €80000 in damages for my reportingContinue Reading
Sonia Melo fully exonerated and reinstalled as PI by her Portuguese employer I3S
The Portuguese cancer researcher Sonia Melo has been cleared of all suspicions of scientific misconduct by her employer Instituto de InvestigaçãoContinue Reading
Voinnet retraction brings entire school of thought crashing down
Another retraction hits the fallen star plant scientist Olivier Voinnet. This time it is a previously corrected paper in Science,Continue Reading
5 retractions and a sack for Pfizer lead cancer researcher Min-Jean Yin
Five months ago, I reported about data integrity concerns in 6 publications authored by Min-Jean Yin, who had been workingContinue Reading
Manel Esteller, the Schrödinger cat of Barcelona
This text was first published on September 30th as Spanish translation on Hipertextual. The Spanish Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de BellvitgeContinue Reading
Helin Vakifahmetoglu and Nobel-prized autophagy research of Karolinska
The copious new evidence I was given by a certain sleuth team suggests a possibly bigger problem than KI previously decreed.
Can lawyers influence a misconduct investigation? Case of Tina Wenz
Tina Wenz is a German mitochondria biologist, who was now found guilty of research misconduct in her six publications, authoredContinue Reading
Mild criticism only for Sumitran-Holgersson and Olausson from Gothenburg University Hospital investigation
The indestructible Swedish regenerative medicine researcher Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson could have been stopped early on, and a patient of hers couldContinue Reading
The newly found innocence of Paolo Macchiarini
The tide is turning for the fallen star surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, who transplanted numerous patients with lethal tracheas made outContinue Reading
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