La Banda di Ando
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Category: Research integrity
Why science fraud is not a crime
“Science is an activity based on uncertainty. […] Methodological errors […] cannot be treated as crimes. The risk is criminalizing scientific practice itself, inhibiting innovation and creativity.” – Helena B. Nader, President
Would you in Lodz?
“Forgeries of this calibre make me think anything ever published by Sliwinski, Skorski and their associates is made up. In an ideal world, hundreds of articles by these people showing just tables and graphs should get retracted ” – Aneurus Inconstans
Fady & Marian, or How to share a Photoshop license
“If you need a graphics designer with basic photo shop skills to tune up your data, they might be the right team for the job!” – Fabian Wittmers
A global leader in neurology and neuroscience
As Australia’s top neuroscientist Matthew Kiernan sacks people, questions arise: are his drawings still science or already art?
In Bad Company
“Authors thank the members of NeuroDigitech for their contribution to data generation, and all the animals that contributed to these studies.”
Fraud by Thousand Needles
” I can’t even begin to imagine the psychological damage of joining a lab as a new postgrad student and having people like Ryan F. Donelly as your supervisor and Andi as the postdoc, it must be heartbreaking. ” – Sholto David
The London Eye
How Robin Ali and other London ophthalmologists make blind mice and blind children see.
How Vilhelm Bohr disappointed his Grandpa
Will Vilhelm win a Nobel Prize of his own? And for what?
I Lost My Pancreas in Heidelberg
“While papermills certainly pollute the literature the most in terms of numbers, I believe the spotlight should equally be on questionable research groups at top institutions, whose articles might have an even larger negative impact on society” – Aneurus Incostans
For Better Science 