Science journalism by Leonid Schneider, on research integrity and academic publishing in life sciences and biomedicine
Male boldness causes COVID-19 death, go figure. This ridiculous quackery from Brazil is based on fudged clinical trials, sponsored by an obscure Californian hair loss business, and even Torello Lotti is on board!
Disappointed of Carey Gillam’s book about Lawyers’ Adventures, I blog about the Monsanto and glyphosate affair.
“A consumable component, magnetic beads, used by the laboratory was supplied by Magnacell Ltd, a company that has Dr T Jurkowski as a director. Cardiff University did not tender for these consumables at the time”.
Exceptional times call for exceptional men. In Israel, men of science boldly step forward to face the coronavirus, armed with miracle cures. Pandemic, like a good war, is always good for business.
EU Commission gives €6 million to an obscure German start-up, promising to convert sewage to synthetic fuels. Internet sources suggest behind all this is “Professor” Ruggiero Santilli, the litigious “Florida Genius”, eternally self-appointed Nobel Prize candidate and sock-
puppeteering businessman. Exactly the kind of “fringe scientist” Smut Clyde likes to write about!
Telomere dysfunction is a common problem in older men. Dr Shai Efrati can help: Book your appointment for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy now!
There is a miracle drug for COVID-19, but it is secret. Enterprising researchers at Institute Pasteur in Lille ask for €5 million.
Jan van Deursen had to resign from Mayo Clinic over bullying charges. With his company Unity Biotech’s phase 2 clinical trial failed, stock devalued and staff laid-off, van Deursen sued me in German court about the reproducibility of his senolytics research.
As a young Wunderkind, Josef Penninger discovered the ACE2 receptor. Now he invented the cure for the coronavirus which will work in his hands where Big Pharma failed. He was never found guilty of research misconduct and never retracted a paper. Dr Penninger is a Genius making a COVID-19 vaccine.
Science communication by press release. No paper is published, no data available, but a Max Planck Institute director is eager to announce a possible cure for COVID-19: artemisia extracts, by his own company.
