Pound of Flesh, or Is Cancer Fraud Inevitable?
Ashani Weeraratna and Valerie Weaver, two women in STEM, harassed by trolls.
Category: Research integrity
The microscopic talent of Prof Amenta
“Professor Amenta is truly a renaissance man and a knowledge powerhouse according to his colleagues and students. Amenta’s sole focus in life is the creation and dissemination of knowledge”
Proofig – the Kolodkin-Gal family business
“Don’t let online controversies and aggressive blogs easily ruin
everything you’ve worked for to build your reputation […] Whether the image issue is innocent or intentional, the outcome is still the same. Bloggers will attack that publication with image issues, which will damage your reputation and may even lead to a costly investigation.
We are here to help you prevent this. I am Dr. Dror Kolodkin Gal, […] the founder of Proofig.”
Imperial Adcock – from Barnes to Iran!
“the College would have been well within its rights to reject all of your allegations…”
Imperial Irishman Hugh Brady (and his Dublin leprechauns)
When your Irish past catches up with your English future.
The potential problems of Eliezer Masliah
“the confusion occurred while utilizing prior panels as example ” – emeritus professor Eliezer Masliah
The Name of the Foes
“I am Jorge de Burgos. I believe research should pause in searching for the progress of knowledge. Right now, we don’t need more papers, we rather need more knowledge by going through a continuous and sublime recapitulation to figure out what is true and what is fake” – Aneurus Inconstans
An attractive and “natural” target for fraudsters
“In the various excellent texts on paper mills the question is discussed why Naunyn-Schmiedebergs Archives of Pharmacology has become a target for fake papers. I oppose the assumption that we simply want to fill pages with pseudo-scientific content. We actually look for quality and good science.” – Prof Dr Roland Seifert, Editor-in-Chief
What Elsa Flores and Tyler Jacks taught each other
“PCR reactions run on agarose gels commonly look similar due to artifacts introduced by the agarose gel and comb.” Dr Elsa R Flores, Associate Director, Moffitt Cancer Center
Toppling Giants in Stanford
Everyone is talking about Stanford’s President Marc Tessier-Lavigne now. OK, let’s talk about him, and how Stanford deals with research fraud. And then let’s talk about Thomas Rando.
For Better Science 