Karma Police, Arrest This Man
“This is what you get
When you mess with us” –
University of Ulm to L. Schneider
Category: Research integrity
Florida couple hits Gulf War Mice on the head with hammer, posts on internet
“Bob Roskamp, a Sarasota entrepreneur and philanthropist, was getting his biggest kick Thursday from his $5-million gamble on a team of driven University of South Florida researchers who believe they can find the world’s first treatment for Alzheimer’s.”
Safer Sex with Cowboy Yan
“Hongji Yan presented four different versions of Figure 9 in the article and during the investigation as the “correct” figure. One version was published in the original article, one version was sent to the journal and published as a correction, and two more versions were shared with the Board”
If only Diana Spiegelberg had AI-based tools…
“research misconduct can occur at any stage of the research process and that there is no requirement for the results or the findings of the research to have been affected. Furthermore, the incorrect images constitute precisely those research results which the authors themselves considered important enough to be presented in scientific articles.” – NPOF
The Biggest Fraudster of All
“Leonid Schneider’s replies will appear in full at the following link: https://forbetterscience.com/” – PubPeer moderator
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.
