AACR deploys Massimo Loda on a mission to cure cancer
Meet Massimo Loda, the new EiC of Molecular Cancer Research. Not despite, but because of his PubPeer record. Also meet his partner Michele Pagano!
Category: Academic Publishing
How JBC sold its Soul to the Devil
All good things come to an end.
On Dangers of Preprints
Antivaxxery in scientific literature – are preprints to blame?
The scientific sea of miR- and exosome-related knowledge
“Whole cohorts of peer-reviewers have been trained to view all these mannerist stylings as what western blots should look like. […] It will be a challenge to convince them otherwise.” – Smut Clyde.
Chinese genetics of Uyghur face prediction
Who would have known that Uyghur DNA, used by Chinese state security for genetics research into racial profiling and face prediction, was obtained under coercion? Four papers by Caixia Li et al are now retracted.
Frontiers in Homicidal Quackery
Guess what Frontiers now published.
The papers are coming from inside the house!
“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
The 16 secret retractions of Xuetao Cao at JBC
Chairman Cao’s 16 Retractions They Don’t Want You to Know About
The Chinese Paper Mill Industry: Interview with Smut Clyde and Tiger BB8
Unlike those fake paper mill products, this interview failed editorial review and journal quality control.
Whitewashed by ACS and Elsevier, Zboril sues Olomouc Dean for “bullying”
“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
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