Blame Your Students
“I should have checked these images more closely, but they were intended to be representative images rather than duplications or forgeries of other images.” – Crishan Samuel
Category: Research integrity
Luck in Sight
“It seems hard to accept any explanation that doesn’t somehow incriminate most of the people involved” – Sholto David
Not a single molecule
“Nothing helps more to happily resolve such “scientific controversies” than replacement data, and this is exactly what Prof. Guo and his group provided in their response. ” – Maarten van Kampen
La Banda di Ando
Germans are traditionally fascinated with Italy. Like Goethe before him, Fabian Wittmers is no exception, so please enjoy our tripContinue Reading
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
For Better Science 