Fishy peer review at Science, by citizen scientist Ted Held
Sweden and the international research community recently faced yet another research misconduct scandal. It was about a Science paper byContinue Reading
Category: Research integrity
Data manipulation evidence in Helin Vakifahmetoglu papers “warrants no further consideration”
The Swedish Karolinska Institutet (KI) has investigated its own cell biologist and well-funded autophagy researcher Helin Vakifahmetoglu-Norberg, following my publishing ofContinue Reading
German Leibniz institute director Karl Lenhard Rudolph guilty of misconduct
A major misconduct finding hits German life sciences. Karl Lenhard Rudolph, stem cell and ageing researcher, director of the Fritz-Lippmann-Institute (FLI)Continue Reading
Expert review: Macchiarini papers on plastic trachea transplants are misconduct
Bad times for the scandal surgeon Paolo Macchiarini and his acolyte Philipp Jungebluth. Misconduct findings led previously to retraction of anContinue Reading
Melo and Kalluri defend discredited Nature paper with preprint, where they admit data “adjustments”
Sonia Melo, the Portuguese cheater scientist and her former US-boss Raghu Kalluri issued some days ago a biorxive preprint, whichContinue Reading
Carlisle’s statistics bombshell names and shames rigged clinical trials
John Carlisle is a British anaesthesiologist, who works in a seaside Torbay Hospital near Exeter, at the English Channel. DespiteContinue Reading
Updated: CNRS lab of Voinnet’s right hand Patrice Dunoyer dissolved by director’s decree
The lab of Olivier Voinnet’s right hand man at IBMP Strasbourg has been dissolved. The news about the end of Patrice Dunoyer’s scientific career appeared on my site long before the information became official.
Sumitran-Holgersson and Olausson guilty of misconduct and unethical experiments on children
Game over apparently near for the indestructible Swedish regenerative medicine researcher Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson, after investigations at her University of Gothenburg drawContinue Reading
Updated: Retraction, and another looming misconduct finding for Macchiarini and Jungebluth
The misconduct-tainted paper on oesophagus transplants in rats (Sjöqvist et al 2014) by the fallen star of regenerative medicine Paolo Macchiarini isContinue Reading
Würzburg misconduct Commission acquits Walles, dismisses biased medical expert, restarts anew as data manipulations flood in
The University of Würzburg did not ignore the Open Letter in support of my journalism, and has concluded its internalContinue Reading
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