Axel Meyer’s pampered bottom
“In every respect, their behinds are pampered and any laziness and incompetence are forgiven with a lot of care and understanding.”
Category: Bullying and harassment
Marginalised and isolated in academic publishing activities
A history professor remains a valuable peer even if credibly accused of sexual harassment. And even of plagiarism? Will they still defend him with their letters?
A global leader in neurology and neuroscience
As Australia’s top neuroscientist Matthew Kiernan sacks people, questions arise: are his drawings still science or already art?
Dirty Old Men
Does being a science genius entitle you to sexual harassment, as academic authorities in Yale and elsewhere insist? Let’s look at papers by Michael Simons, Joseph Schlessinger and Arnold Levine.
Bullies and Harassers of Cologne
“the professor insults her doctoral students, calling them “stupid”, “useless” or “retarded”, for example. She is said to sometimes require her employees to work more than 80 hours a week. The report speaks of a “quasi-feudal relationship of dependence” and a “climate of fear” at the institute in question.”
Who are you, Matthew Stephenson?
“Sense of wasted potential. Stephenson has energy, and a degree of low rat cunning that could accomplish something, if only steered in the right direction.” – Smut Clyde
The Paul Scherrer Rules
“I will ultimately decide on the names that will qualify for co-authorship” – Dr med Damien Weber
The Royal Academy of Exact, Physical, and Natural Bullying
“If, within the aforementioned 15 days, you have not proceeded to make the retraction I am requesting, this corporation will consider itself free to take any legal actions necessary under the law.” – Jesus Maria Sanz Serna, President
Svante Pääbo: Nobel Disease before Nobel Prize
Svante Pääbo, the father of paleogenomics, went funny before his Nobel Prize.
Akbar Sayeed affair: bullying kills
How a student’s suicide finally brought down an abusive narcissistic psychopath, after two decades.
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