By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“There is a justified concrete suspicion that third-party funders would from their side terminate the financial support of our client because of the above mentioned representation of our client. This would lead to significant financial losses.”
“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
The photographer Arne Müseler wanted me to pay him almost €6k for embedding his CC-BY Wikipedia picture of Chernobyl reactor. He failed.
Maarten van Kampen dispels the superconductive illusions of Ranga Dias and Ashkan Salamat. Will we also receive a cease-and-desist letter now?
“This is a fight between two distinguished academics and the University at which they have tenure over a Pig Model….”
“We demand that you publicly apologize to our clients and retract all your statements within one week from today. Failure to do so will result in our taking an action in both public and private law, against you and McGill University.” – Moshe Szyf and Michael Meaney, via lawyer
“The Plaintiff is Professor Sabatini […] the self-described powerful senior scientist, who had demanded sex of her when she was a graduate student ending her studies and about to start a fellowship at the Whitehead, in a program Sabatini would direct. […] And it is the man who had made it clear – throughout her training and employment with the Whitehead – that he would ruin anyone who dared to speak against him.”
“Without even drinking water, she sometimes gained 0.5 kg to 1 kg after a telephone conversation with Dr. Yan.”
Mad chloroquine guru Didier Raoult is becoming an embarrassment for France, who would’ve known.
“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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