Berlin clinic head Joussen investigated by DFG, while 3 universities ignore FOI requests
Antonia Joussen, head of ophthalmology clinic at the Berlin university hospital Charité, had to correct several of her publications dueContinue Reading
Author: Leonid Schneider
Independent Science Journalist and Cartoonist.
Formerly molecular cell biologist. My academic CV at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-9470
Wellcoming the samizdat publishing revolution
The British research funder Wellcome Trust (now just Wellcome) is about to launch its own journal, where the funding recipients and theirContinue Reading
Pontus Boström: cheater carousel in Sweden
Sweden is a tolerant country, which is a very good thing. Unfortunately, sometimes this Swedish tolerance seems ill-advised. Dishonest scientistsContinue Reading
Self-Plagiarism: helps careers, hurts noone?
Times Higher Education recently reported about an online survey on research integrity of British scientists. The study was performed andContinue Reading
Brexiting out of EU research and patient rights
Britain voted itself out of the European Union, and with this act UK research will soon be also out ofContinue Reading
Berlin head ophthalmologist Joussen deploys lawyer to silence my reporting, demands from me €80,000 damages
I received a lawyer’s letter, where I am instructed to delete my report about the Berlin head ophthalmologist Antonia JoussenContinue Reading
Mario Saad and the return of the wandering western blot
“A clinical trial of fake news, by Mario Saad”
New tenured job for zombie scientist Susana Gonzalez
Susana González is a Spanish regenerative medicine scientist who promised to search for cures of heart ageing with the helpContinue Reading
Regenerating in Hannover, Part 1: how Macchiarini got ideas
The trachea surgeon and formerly world-renowned stem cell pioneer Paolo Macchiarini, whose human experimenting left most of his trachea-transplant patientsContinue Reading
Conspiracy Theory: Is NPG being assimilated by Frontiers???
The post below is a satiric parody, though the general facts and the document I publish are real and true.Continue Reading
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