Poll – For Better Science

by Leonid Schneider May 17, 2019 14

New ERC President Mauro Ferrari was partner of Texas cheater Anil Sood

The new ERC President Mauro Ferrari used to closely collaborate with two very controversial cancer researchers at MD Anderson in Texas: Anil Sood and Gabriel Lopez-Beerestein. Will that experience affect ERC’s already wanting stance on research integrity?

by Leonid Schneider July 5, 2017 35

Academic Publishing Blog Poll

Peer review ghost-writing, or do professors understand plagiarism?

Every academic will probably agree that plagiarism is wrong. It is absolutely not OK to pass someone’s else’s intellectual workContinue Reading

by Leonid Schneider May 11, 2017 15

medicine News Poll

Macchiarini leaves Russia: federal grant denied and Kazan lab shut down

Paolo Macchiarini is leaving Russia, his research and surgery stint there is over. The fallen star surgeon was able toContinue Reading

by Leonid Schneider May 25, 2016 10

medicine Poll

The decadence of German medical doctorate

Germany is a country where a doctorate still invites respect and even deference, in certain circles at least. Here, the prefixContinue Reading

by Leonid Schneider November 30, 2015 13

Poll

Undeserved authorships: Blog + Poll

Recently, Nature News brought an article about the issue of scientific authorships. A Twitter discussion was started by Dorothy Bishop,Continue Reading

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