The western blot doctors of Silesia
Three whistleblowers reported the Polish medicine professor Bozena Gabryel and colleagues for data manipulation. Will the universities do anything now?
Category: Research integrity
Macchiarini and his Russian megagrant
Below I am publishing the most recent dossier authored by the four whistle-blowers from the Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Sweden:Continue Reading
Kathrin Maedler loses Heisenberg Professorship, Diabetes award, found guilty of misconduct by DFG
“As a suitable and appropriate measure in accordance with the DFG procedural regulations, the Examination Board proposed to the main committee the withdrawal of the Heisenberg Professorship for Mädler, which was approved in 2014.”
Kathrin Maedler: persecuted genius or zombie scientist?
The prize-winning German pharmacologist and diabetes researcher Kathrin Maedler is regularly in the German and international news, either as aContinue Reading
The Voinnet investigator and the tricky issue of conflict of interests
Great scientists never have any conflicts of interests, and in the case of the investigation of the research misconduct byContinue Reading
Unveiling the mystery of fallen microbiologist Robert Ryan
The young star of microbiology Robert Ryan, rose to great heights only to be publicly shot down, without much of anContinue Reading
Mass investigation of 9 senior scientists at Karolinska Institutet
The scandal-shaken Swedish Karolinska Institutet (KI) invited nine of their research group leaders and professors to explain themselves about dataContinue Reading
Dean acting outside his competence and the illusion of Freedom of Information in Germany
The Berlin head ophthalmologist Antonia Joussen once set her lawyer upon me, demanding up to €80000 in damages for my reportingContinue Reading
Sonia Melo fully exonerated and reinstalled as PI by her Portuguese employer I3S
The Portuguese cancer researcher Sonia Melo has been cleared of all suspicions of scientific misconduct by her employer Instituto de InvestigaçãoContinue Reading
Voinnet retraction brings entire school of thought crashing down
Another retraction hits the fallen star plant scientist Olivier Voinnet. This time it is a previously corrected paper in Science,Continue Reading
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