The incredible collaborations of Renaissance men and women
Nick Wise and Alexander Magazinov on the authorships-for-sale market on social media. Merely $700 for the 7th position on some paper way outside your expertise!
Category: Guest post
Anatomy of a Retraction 2 – Superconductive Fraud
Maarten van Kampen dispels the superconductive illusions of Ranga Dias and Ashkan Salamat. Will we also receive a cease-and-desist letter now?
Research misconduct: Theory & Pratico
A whistleblower tried to report fraud in Domenico Pratico’s papers via proper channels, and hit a wall everywhere.
Prof Elizalde’s Magic Cancer Research at CONICET
“No matter if the data behind medical protocols and oncological treatments are imaginary! Since science is long dead, we can always rely on the haruspices.” – Aneurus Inconstans
Maybe stop accepting submissions, Herr Prof Dr Sauer?
Who needs science if you can have a 75 paper strong special edition by Afrand and Karimi? A guest post by Alexander Magazinov.
Misinformed and Damaged – victim of unethical trial hits back
“I don’t ask TGA staff to risk their lives at work, only that they don’t risk mine and others’ lives by withholding public health information.” – Robert Cockburn
The Apprentice of the One-Man Papermill
“‘More than 80 articles and H-index over 25 (Scopus) have been achieved’.” – M.K. Ahmed
Wiley: Committed to integrity? Get out!
“We have initiated post-acceptance peer review with independent reviewers… ” – Wiley.
The first uterus transplant, or how Lancet apologised to Saudis
A guest post by the science writer Martin Endara-Coll.
Iberian yeast masters do it classic with a flip
“These figures were elaborated by me personally and I remember quite well how I made them. Definitely, the images shown in this figure were cut and pasted from the originals in order to elaborate the figures, the overlapping was done “manually” using GIMP…” – Dr. José R Pérez-Castiñeira
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