By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“…the best evidence for the existence of VSELs is the dismal failure of all the other much-vaunted stem-cell therapies to deliver on their promises. Since it is axiomatic that some stem-cell therapy must work, the successful cell-types must be the ones that haven’t been tried yet, which leaves VSELs.”- Smut Clyde
“There is another possibility, though… that C.-C. Sun is the papermill, supplying colleagues around Wuhan with variants of the same paper, with the condition that those donated manuscripts carry self-citation payloads.” – Smut Clyde
“So here is a novelty in the annals of fictional research: a nomadic digital caliper. It visited a series of laboratories, accompanied by a backing troupe of mouse-mined xenograft tumours for it to measure” – Smut Clyde
“The idea to call the newly discovered cells telocytes came to me during a break at the Vienna State Opera” – Don Lorenzo aka Preda
“For once I am not accusing the journal editors and peer-reviewers of incompetence and dereliction, nor calling for the literature reviewers who cite these fictions to be cashiered in the scholastic equivalent of a court-martial.”- Smut Clyde
“Oh Stewardess, I speak Lorem Ipsum” – Smut Clyde
“Ruggiero is an old hand at this plausibly-deniable Tergiversation Tango, having perfected it with his just-asking-questions Antivax AIDS denial-cake, both eating and f**king it.” – Smut Clyde
“For as I have often bemoaned in the past, not even the paper-forging industry is free from scruple- and principle-deficient players.” – Smut Clyde
“I will not by myself, or be instructing or encouraging any other person or howsoever othewise, publish or cause to be published words or otherwise howsoever make statements to others which wrongfully refer to Nottingham Trent University and/or their employees and for any person or any body associated with Nottingham Trent University”
“My attention was first drawn to Blum, Febo & Badgaiyan for what was either a ground-breaking advance in scientific illustration, or an attempt to win the inaugural Cheese Promotion Cup” – Smut Clyde
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