Sir Harry’s Full Withdraw
“First you are starting that this issue is fraud, which is a negative attitude. I always would like to give the other part the benefit of the doubt.” – Sir Prof. dr. Harry W.M. Steinbusch
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“First you are starting that this issue is fraud, which is a negative attitude. I always would like to give the other part the benefit of the doubt.” – Sir Prof. dr. Harry W.M. Steinbusch
“There is so much money flowing through this system that I don’t see what will stop the network of papermills and corrupt editors.” – Nick Wise
“I am not angry with the post-publication surgery that the publisher performed on the affected papers after discovering the shenanigans, scrubbing off the names of spurious reviewers. Just very disappointed.” – Smut Clyde
“We are living in a faked world and there is a lot of un-verified avatars. “, Philippe Garrigues, EiC
“The reviewers and editors agree there is not clear evidence to support Dr Murray’s claim.”
“Of course the sentient rubber-stamps guest-editing Special Issues on behalf of papermills would have accepted anything – they don’t give two tugs on a dead dingo’s dick about content ” – Smut Clyde
“Among these candidates that you “vetted” were people with no expertise in the field (either 0 or 1 publication), people with longer PubPeer profiles and more retractions than most people have articles on their CVs, and people whose names appear as authors on sold paper sites. ” – Jillian Goldfarb
NPOF, again and again: “Philipp Jungebluth and Paolo Macchiarini guilty of research misconduct” Lancet: “Paolo Macchiarini is not guilty of scientific misconduct”
“What exactly will Lash and Elsevier do with these 115 problematic papers? I can only expect a painfully inadequate response.” – Sholto David
How did an editorial about insect pheromone communication get to receive 1200 irrelevant citations, almost all from papermills? Alexander Magazinov reveals The Secret of The Vickers Curse!









