Editors vs the Anonymous
A tale of brave academic editors fighting those bad, naughty, annoying anonymous whistleblower trolls
Category: Academic Publishing
Sylvain Lesné is a failed scientist
From Lesné’s public shame to successful role models of neuroscience like Aguzzi and Tessier-Lavigne.
Wiley: Committed to integrity? Get out!
“We have initiated post-acceptance peer review with independent reviewers… ” – Wiley.
Lex Bouter, King of Research Integrity
My uninvited contribution to WCRI 2022
Elsevier pandemic profiteering, again
“a scientific journal is not a social network, not even a newspaper. People reading papers in FCT are expected to be scientists with a good basis to distinguish between trash and science.” EiC Jose Luis Domingo on new paper by Peter McCullough
Time to retract Lancet paper on tissue engineered trachea transplants
Paolo Macchiarini affair: I reproduce the letter Patricia Murray, Raphael Levy, Peter Wilmshurst and myself published in The BMJ on 2 March 2022. I also publish Wilmshurst’s appeal to the UCL leadership.
Longwei Yin corrections, or what’s the point anyway
“I just want to cry right now. I cannot fight this corruption by myself. ” – Elisabeth Bik
Polymer Papermillers Taking the Piss
Papermill Industry enters its Logical Growth Phage. Smut Clyde explains what coordination polymer chemistry has to do with chickenshit.
Time to Meditate
Merry Christmas from PNAS
Henry Markram crushes COVID-19 with metformin and Atkins diet
Henry Markram deployed his Blue Brain supercomputer to crack COVID-19, thanks to Open Access and Frontiers. He now announces to use the technology to “address so many other diseases, accelerate science, and help save the planet from climate change”
For Better Science 