Cuzzocrea’s Magnificent Fall
“These unscrupulous charlatans in Messina should be fired on the spot tomorrow morning, forced to return twenty years of undeserved wages and sent to work the land” – Aneurus Inconstans
Category: Research integrity
Swedish investigation spoils Macchiarini cover-up at Lancet
NPOF, again and again: “Philipp Jungebluth and Paolo Macchiarini guilty of research misconduct” Lancet: “Paolo Macchiarini is not guilty of scientific misconduct”
Thomas Südhof and the standards of scientific rigor
Maarten van Kampen’s second attempt at hounding of Nobel papers.
Kostya Ostrikov’s russo-iranian false friends
“Let me assure you that I totally condemn the war in Ukraine, and at the very least because my old mother is in Kharkiv and she suffers a lot… I am trying to help my colleagues and friends from Ukraine whichever way I can…” – Professor Kostya “Ken” Ostrikov
Claudio and Giannino evaluate and analyze
“together with my colleagues we are actively analyzing the points raised on pubpeer.” – Claudio Schneider
“we will evaluate Pubpeer comments” – Giannino Del Sal
Bosone Layer
“[Taurine’s] exact biological role is unclear, which is why Parames Sil and his students decided that it must be an antioxidant, and therefore the ideal treatment for cadmium- or arsenic-poisoning.” – Smut Clyde
Lashing out at Toxicology Reports
“What exactly will Lash and Elsevier do with these 115 problematic papers? I can only expect a painfully inadequate response.” – Sholto David
Swedish rector Anders Hagfeldt pronounced innocent of papermilling
“The board’s conclusion is therefore that the deviations regarding figure 2b and 2c in article 1 constitute serious deviations from good research practice”
Dario Altieri remembers Filippo Giancotti
The sad state of affairs of oncology drug discovery
Synthetic Communications with Ali Fakhri and his real or imaginary friends
“the entire dramatis personae seem to have crawled out of our man’s sock drawer, and the page-count of Synthetic Communications would be grievously impoverished without his contributions, whether direct or uncredited.”- Smut Clyde
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