Pontus Boström: cheater carousel in Sweden
Sweden is a tolerant country, which is a very good thing. Unfortunately, sometimes this Swedish tolerance seems ill-advised. Dishonest scientistsContinue Reading
Category: Research integrity
Brexiting out of EU research and patient rights
Britain voted itself out of the European Union, and with this act UK research will soon be also out ofContinue Reading
Berlin head ophthalmologist Joussen deploys lawyer to silence my reporting, demands from me €80,000 damages
I received a lawyer’s letter, where I am instructed to delete my report about the Berlin head ophthalmologist Antonia JoussenContinue Reading
Mario Saad and the return of the wandering western blot
“A clinical trial of fake news, by Mario Saad”
New tenured job for zombie scientist Susana Gonzalez
Susana González is a Spanish regenerative medicine scientist who promised to search for cures of heart ageing with the helpContinue Reading
Regenerating in Hannover, Part 1: how Macchiarini got ideas
The trachea surgeon and formerly world-renowned stem cell pioneer Paolo Macchiarini, whose human experimenting left most of his trachea-transplant patientsContinue Reading
Triplicated paper with multiplicated cells and images
There are papers which contain image duplications. There are papers which contain outrageous image duplications, which can only be explainedContinue Reading
Research data integrity: words and deeds of Berlin’s head ophthalmologist
Note: the following post provoked a lawyer’s letter on behalf of Antonia Joussen, demanding its removal and a personal damageContinue Reading
“Notification of Suspected Research Misconduct”, by 4 Macchiarini-whistleblowers
I am publishing a recent letter to the Vice-Chancellor of Karolinska Institutet (KI) Karin Dahlman-Wright, authored by the four KI medical researchers, Matthias Corbascio, Oscar Simonson, Karl-Henrik Grinnemo and Thomas Fux.
Chocolate is good for your funding
Chocolate is good for your health, scientists keep saying. This may sound counter-intuitive; given that chocolate is an extremely calorie-richContinue Reading
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