Science journalism by Leonid Schneider, on research integrity and academic publishing in life sciences and biomedicine
“It feels like half the higher-echelon professors at Jilin University have built their careers on these fairy-tales, with successions of papers itemising the interactions of ADAM10 or GRIM-19. […] if only they had published instead about the Tooth-Fairy circ-RNA and how it targets the Easter-Bunny Pathway…”, – Smut Clyde
Chairman Cao’s 16 Retractions They Don’t Want You to Know About
Unlike those fake paper mill products, this interview failed editorial review and journal quality control.
“I should remind you that the editorial offices that investigated your allegations did not found any evidence of scientific misconduct or data fabrication. In my opinion, your allegation may bear the elements of defamation and false accusation” – Prof Radek Zboril
Smut Clyde congratulates Aging: “This is bespoke tailoring, in contrast to the off-the-rack products cranked out by the average papermill […] no shame befalls the journals that accept these confections.”
Famous MIT lab discovered the coronavirus integrates into human genome and is still transcribed! Between preprint and contributed PNAS paper, three authors and a mechanism were dropped.
Papermills run by Chinese universities and funding a notorious Greek publisher. Smut Clyde tells it all!
How to make an academic career in medicine, a guide for white men and their wives.
“Are they just taking the piss?” -Smut Clyde
Önder Metin had a rogue PhD student whom he trusted “to ensure their academic growth”. But “mistakes were made by mistake”, conclusions are never affected. Yet those who still complain, will pay dearly.
