CNRS hits back at the stream of misconduct evidence
The French scientific society CNRS, a huge country-wide network of research institutes and one of the most influential science institutionsContinue Reading
Category: Research integrity
On Western blot loading controls: lessons from Richard Moriggl lab
Western blot, a method to separate proteins by size and analyse their relative expression levels, is a much maligned techniqueContinue Reading
After misconduct investigation, Irina Stancheva left Edinburgh, in secret
A scientist was “dismissed” by the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, UK. It was the cell biologist Irina Stancheva who specialises on the epigenetics and regulatory methylation of DNA. Her institutional website was deleted just hours after I sent my email inquiries to her former faculty colleagues.
Alexander Seifalian, UCL’s Persian Scapegoat
UCL has completed the investigation into the affair around their past honorary professor Paolo Macchiarini and the trachea transplants. The report avoids implicating Macchiarini’s partner Martin Birchall. The only guilty party is the nuclear physicist Alexander Seifalian.
The rise and fall of an antivax paper
Mirror neurons and little men in boats, by Smut Clyde
Carol Prives, innocent victim of Susana Gonzalez’ data manipulations?
Did NAS Member Carol Prives know anything about these suspected manipulations in her lab’s papers? And how will journals act on the evidence?
John Innes Centre director Dale Sanders rebuffs a non-peer reviewed internet troll
Regarding the Olivier Voinnet scandal and a recent data integrity case in Germany (marginally featuring a current group leader ofContinue Reading
Voinnet’s CNRS investigator Catherine Jessus with own data integrity issues
More suspected data manipulations in the papers by the French elite biologists. It was funny enough when the director andContinue Reading
Karolinska embarrasses itself to save two professors
The Swedish Karolinska Institutet (KI) is going through turbulent times. The Paolo Macchiarini scandal sensitised the European elite biomedical research centreContinue Reading
The PubPeer Stars of Weizmann Institute
Rony Seger, Jacob Hanna, Ilana Kolodkin-Gal, Atan Gross, Sima Lev, Tsvee Lapidot, Moshe Oren, Varda Rotter and others. Let’s celebrate the Weizmann Science!
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