Decline and Fall
“Gather round the campfire, everyone, while Uncle Smut regales you with another blood-chilling, spine-curdling tale… this time, about psychologists not sciencing properly.” – Smut Clyde
Category: Research Reproducibility
Superconductive Witch Hunt
“J. Hirsch. […] engaged in unscrupulous practices, including falsifying analyses and selectively presenting data to support unfounded claims. […] Hirsch’s tactics include manipulation of public opinion, personal attacks on our team members, and threats and complaints to our management and funding agencies.” – Mikhail Eremets, the single most highly regarded high pressure experimentalist today.
Joe Loscalzo’s Drag Show
“Dr. Loscalzo […] has a more cool-headed awareness and philosophy of research ethics than anyone else. We are here to stop the reckless defamation of Dr. Loscalzo and baseless attacks on his papers. Please ignore any malicious concerns and conspiracies. “
Carlo Croce: from fake science to fake art
“The sockpuppets went on to argue that Croce’s fake results had been vindicated by subsequent replications, making him guilty of nothing more than excessive zeal in the cause of righteousness. ” – Smut Clyde
George Church, Colossal W*nker
From mammoths to eugenics to anti-aging scams: god-impersonator George Church knows how to make money with bullshit.
Stop trying to make VSEL happen!
“…the best evidence for the existence of VSELs is the dismal failure of all the other much-vaunted stem-cell therapies to deliver on their promises. Since it is axiomatic that some stem-cell therapy must work, the successful cell-types must be the ones that haven’t been tried yet, which leaves VSELs.”- Smut Clyde
Superconductive Fraud: The Sequel
“After the huge box-office success of “Nature 2020: Room-temperature superconductivity in CSH” this March our Nature studios released a sequel with the same star-studded cast: “Nature 2023: Near-ambient superconductivity in N-doped LuHx”. – Maarten van Kampen
In Memoriam: Professor Laurentiu “Telocyte” Popescu (1944-2015)
“The idea to call the newly discovered cells telocytes came to me during a break at the Vienna State Opera” – Don Lorenzo aka Preda
Anatomy of a Retraction 2 – Superconductive Fraud
Maarten van Kampen dispels the superconductive illusions of Ranga Dias and Ashkan Salamat. Will we also receive a cease-and-desist letter now?
C Ronald Kahn and The Problem of Irreproducible Bioscience Research
“not everyone in the research community accepts that the problem requires such attention; some believe it is overblown.” -Jeffrey Flier, emeritus dean of Harvard Medical School
For Better Science 