Zombie scientist Sonia Melo awarded by AstraZeneca
Sonia Melo is back, and not to be messed with. The Portuguese zombie scientist is responsible for a number ofContinue Reading
Category: Research integrity
Linköping University and Tiwari’s predatory conferences
The predatory conferences organised by Ashutosh Tiwari became now a comparatively modest affair. Tiwari stopped pretending being a LiU professor and even ceased signing his conference invitations. Internet announcements for his conference scams became rather minimalistic, while conference programmes or lists of speakers are not released to participants and are apparently arranged on the spot.
The Kathrin Maedler Dynasty
German diabetologist Kathrin Maedler is a central figure of a questionable academic dynasty. Using Photoshop simulations, she discovered a cure for diabetes, which was then allegedly validated in clinical trials led by her Swiss PhD advisor Marc Donath. 15 years later, the Maedler-Donath diabetes cure was proven as utterly ineffective by same Donath, in another clinical trial. Maedler’s own PhD student, Amin Ardestani is group leader in Bremen, despite data irregularities and unacknowledged textual reuse in his thesis.
Lill space-time-blot anomaly in Marburg
The biochemistry research lab of professor Roland Lill at the Philipps University Marburg in Germany is a place where space,Continue Reading
Salk Gandalf Tony Hunter gets AACR prize for magic western blots
Gandalf the Wizard has been awarded €75k in cash and Pezcoller-AACR International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research, forContinue Reading
University of Iceland: no formal legal sanctions against Macchiarini partner Gudbjartsson
The University of Iceland in Reykjavik previously published an external investigation report into the first ever plastic trachea transplant, performedContinue Reading
Princess Sabine, her Ombudsman chaperone and a frog
If you wish to report data irregularities, especially a recurrent pattern thereof, one is well adviced not to write toContinue Reading
Sumitran-Holgersson and Olausson to retract 8 papers for research misconduct
Bad news for regenerative medicine enthusiasts, the data manipulating biologist Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson and her surgeon partner Michael Olausson, both professors atContinue Reading
Jessus investigator identity leaked, CNRS President to expose whistleblowers
An update to the ongoing cartoon Stalinism propaganda and purge activities at the EU largest research institution, the French CNRS,Continue Reading
Pravda of Jessus report, CNRS Politburo scared of own people
Following my recent article about attempts to fix data irregularities in the papers by CNRS’ chief biologist and director ofContinue Reading
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