By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Former star of German regenerative medicine Heike Walles gets slapped with research misconduct and a retraction by her former employer, the University of Würzburg. She and her husband, the Macchiarini-trained surgeon Thorsten Walles, left Würzburg years ago for Magdeburg where nobody minds.
My uninvited contribution to WCRI 2022
Either a Muslim colleague or a retired technician did it. Or so these Sicilian professors insist.
How I ended up charged with research misconduct in Austria.
Paolo Macchiarini affair: I reproduce the letter Patricia Murray, Raphael Levy, Peter Wilmshurst and myself published in The BMJ on 2 March 2022. I also publish Wilmshurst’s appeal to the UCL leadership.
“These papers breached the Australian Code and RMIT Research Policy by not ensuring that conclusions are justified by the results and not responsibly
disseminating research findings.” RMIT investigative report
“”Dear Aneurus Inconstans, thank you for your series of valuable suggestions. We will sincerely verify the matters pointed out. I’m sorry, many collaborators have already resigned from academia.”
Videregen and UCL are now making a thymus.
“Ted Hupp and Kathryn Ball may very well feel like kissing David Argyle on both cheeks.”
“In October of this year, the scientist who closed the American laboratory, disposed of related assets in the United States, and returned to Shanghai with his wife to start a business, officially opened the mode of “wholeheartedly” returning to his country to start a business.”
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