The London Eye
How Robin Ali and other London ophthalmologists make blind mice and blind children see.
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
How Robin Ali and other London ophthalmologists make blind mice and blind children see.
Will Vilhelm win a Nobel Prize of his own? And for what?
“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
“I have been following the comments on PubPeer, and have been shocked, angered and appalled by the issues […] there can be no explanation for this other than systemic fraud “- Prof Gareth Williams, UCL
” I have been receiving too much of these types of papers lately and I think we all are wasting our time with made up science” = Orthopyxis integra
“no further steps will be taken as a result.”
CNRS research director Jolanda Spadavecchia was sanctioned with two years suspension for “serious and repeated breaches of her duty of scientific integrity”, 19 retractions were requested.
The papers are old, raw data unavailable, one can see small differences, some students probably did it, and anyway, conclusions are unaffected.
“An attractive new prospect: Install the Chinese paper mill directly at Yale University, where research oversight is presumably less stringent than at the PRC and NIH funds are more easily accessed to piss up the wall.” – Sholto David
“The magnitude was much greater than we had expected or hoped for,” – Martin Gleave









