The stem cell faith healers, or magic inside your bone marrow
Bone marrow stem cells are magic, they can do everything. If you don’t believe it, you are simply a loserContinue Reading
Category: Research integrity
A personal tale of scientific misconduct
The Portuguese cancer researcher Sonia Melo was found guilty of “negligence in handling and presenting data” in her publications byContinue Reading
Voinnet aftermath: ethical bankruptcy of academic elites
Olivier Voinnet, the disgraced former star plant scientist and professor at ETH Zürich, is apparently on extended sick leave, hisContinue Reading
Macchiarini and the tracheal regeneration scandal, by Pierre Delaere
This is an open letter to the academic community by Pierre Delaere, professor for respiratory surgery at KU Leuven, Belgium, and oneContinue Reading
Macchiarini, Birchall, Seifalian and EU-funded human experimenting
The disgraced surgeon Paolo Macchiarini has now been officially sacked from Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Sweden, while also the entireContinue Reading
ERC on Susana González’ suspended €2Mio grant: peer reviewers to spot manipulations
Spain is rocked by two misconduct scandals involving biomedical researchers Sonia Melo and Susana González. The latter has been sackedContinue Reading
Macchiarini’s German (ex-)friends: Jungebluth and Bader
The trachea-transplant “super- surgeon” Paolo Macchiarini seems to be sitting out the Swedish investigations of his misconduct and patients’ deathsContinue Reading
Sumitran-Holgersson: misconduct and regenerative travesty in Sweden
The Paolo Macchiarini scandal draws wider circles, and unfortunately, it involves more unnecessary patient deaths though questionable tracheal transplants, thisContinue Reading
Publisher Springer to retract Sauren Das paper seven months after editorial decision
In July 2015 I was contacted by a concerned reader, asking me to place on PubPeer on his behalf aContinue Reading
