The Biggest Fraudster of All
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Category: Research integrity
Work hard and play hard like Marcelo Kazanietz
“Mariana will tell your wife things that she does not want to hear. Believe when I tell you that it is not a good idea to play games with Mariana. […] you will have to pay the consequences for your stupid decisions” – Professor Kazanietz, to a lab member
The Misadventures of Luca and Bart
“this is all very time consuming and damaging. It starts to look like a witch hunt.”” – Bart De Strooper
The Kingdom of Rui Reis
“I think this story shows the debacle and corruption of entire research fields that become just a very expensive show of bad science-fiction. ” – Carabus Maleki
The Galdiero Clan
“Scientific works must be carefully reviewed, assessed, and, if necessary, corrected at the time of submission and publication. Attempting to re-evaluate articles many years later represents an unfair practice toward the authors ” – a member of the Galdiero Clan.
Hirota’s Hypoxic Fraud sanctioned in Japan
Kiichi Hirota has been found guilty of research fraud in Japan. He was previously involved in Gregg Semenza’s Nobel Prize discovery of HIF gene. Semenza has 15 retractions, and the work of his Nobel co-recipients isn’t entirely kosher either.
Galina’s fateful visit to Ulm
Three whitewashings and a misconduct finding for Galina Selivanova
Mad School of Brown University
“I have filtered out several hundreds biomedical research articles from Brown containing the words “western blot” in the text, and found out the usual, unavoidable ocean of manipulated data.” – Corrado Viotti
Perfect Blots
“A coordinated review of the cited publications and underlying data is currently underway” – Hiroki Kuniyasu
Memories from Milan
It’s time to write about IFOM-IEO again.
For Better Science 