Charbel Massaad et la lutte contre la fraude
Charbel Massaad is head of biomedical sciences at University of Paris Descartes. He even put forward his candidacy as rector, advocating for science ethics. Unironically.
Category: Research integrity
David Sabatini TORmented by steaming turds
David Sabatini is an absolute star scientist, and now he is being harassed. On PubPeer and Twitter. It is all very unfair.
Euroimmun founder Stöcker: “essential message is beyond any question”
Euroimmun founder Winfried Stöcker replies to criticism of his company’s publications: “Dr. Elisabeth Bik’s observations are not suitable to bring us into disrepute.”
The wizard men curing breast cancer
A breast cancer foundation celebrates its research heroes. Read now here about how great US scientists from Harvard, MIT, Weill Cornell and MD Anderson cure cancer.
Deliferate misteaks by Tradional Chinese Medicine
Smut Clyde studies two Chinese research groups to understand how TCM can be used to create modern Photoshop art.
Milton Prabu’s outsourced art gallery
“now we have equipped with our own photo microscopy, we didn’t depend on the out sourcing fellows to take the photography our slides”. – Dr Milton Prabu.
Magic crystals and Nobel Science rules
As one Nobelist retracted her Science paper, another Nobelist has stealthily corrected his. The correction opens new dimensions of probabilities and is indeed best kept hidden.
Euroimmun: Graphic Art, Made in Germany
EuroImmun is a German diagnostics biotech, founded by the most charming Professor Stöcker and recently sold to PerkinElmer. Elisabeth Bik checked some of company’s papers, many coauthored by Stöcker himself, and she raised questions. The company says this “testifies to a lack of knowledge of the matter”.
Zombie fingers inside corroded nano-piecrusts
Smut Clyde is back with more fraudulent nanotechnology. This time, he presents the works of Dhanaraj Gopi, who designs fabricated surfaces for surgical implants. In Photoshop, or with a pencil.
Aguzzi and the Lowlifes
The prion researcher Adriano Aguzzi used to describe his Pubpeer critics as “lowlifes”, and himself as a victim of a lynch mob. But after Elisabeth Bik helped him find even more mistakes in his papers, Aguzzi changed his stance.
For Better Science 