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
Category: Research integrity
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.
The Misunderstanding of Henrik Thorlacius
“Potential repetitive areas presumably arise from the residual bulk image (RBI) phenomenon of the CCD camera, in which structures may be digitally repeated due to charge residues in the camera wafer.”
The minor infractions by Diana and Fathey
“your remarks exceed the bounds of acceptable professional conduct, and we hereby request that you cease such conduct immediately.”- Université du Québec à Montréal
Mansoor Amiji: rare gem and modern-day polymath
“Again, none of the images are duplicated”, Mansoor Amiji, inventor
For Better Science 