By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
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.
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.
Mirror neurons and little men in boats, by Smut Clyde
Did NAS Member Carol Prives know anything about these suspected manipulations in her lab’s papers? And how will journals act on the evidence?
Regarding the Olivier Voinnet scandal and a recent data integrity case in Germany (marginally featuring a current group leader ofContinue Reading
More suspected data manipulations in the papers by the French elite biologists. It was funny enough when the director andContinue Reading
The Swedish Karolinska Institutet (KI) is going through turbulent times. The Paolo Macchiarini scandal sensitised the European elite biomedical research centreContinue Reading
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!
Earlier this months, a research misconduct scandal in molecular cell biology broke out in the big news. Yoshinori Watanabe,Continue Reading
The Olivier Voinnet scandal of almost two decades-long research misconduct and data manipulations has reached its logical conclusion. The FrenchContinue Reading
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