Student, Meet Bus
What led to retraction of the Sensei RNA paper by Arati Ramesh in Bangalore: the “factually inaccurate, anonymous, and unverified” version, which “quite frankly, can be termed slander”.
And a guest post by “Paul Jones” at the end!
Category: University Affairs
Pier Paolo Pandolfi shrouded in Turin!
Pier Paolo Pandolfi’s secret job in Italy found!
The impossible Toni Camins
They are professors of molecular biology and they don’t know how microscopy or western blots are supposed to work. But it passed peer review!
Whitewashed by ACS and Elsevier, Zboril sues Olomouc Dean for “bullying”
“I should remind you that the editorial offices that investigated your allegations did not found any evidence of scientific misconduct or data fabrication. In my opinion, your allegation may bear the elements of defamation and false accusation” – Prof Radek Zboril
Meaningless and pseudoscientific potatoes
How to cook potato data. A recipe from Poland.
Kristian Helin gets the perfect job
ICR London has a new director. The Great Dane Kristian Helin is the perfect successor to continue the ideological line of fictional cancer research.
Get your predatory publishing into PubMed!
How to make an academic career in medicine, a guide for white men and their wives.
The communal misconduct by Zhenhe Suo in Olso
“the Committee believes that when carelessness or scientific dishonesty can be found in so many articles with so many different authors in question, there must be a lack of training and / or lack of control over data handling. The committee therefore believes that it is qualified probability that there has been an institutional system error when it comes to training. The committee believes that good routines for training are a line responsibility and can not only be attributed to group or project manager.”
“Criaremos na Unicamp um escritório permanente de integridade em pesquisa para proteger a sociedade e o pesquisador”, afirma Mario Saad
Mario “Fakenews” Saad is entering a run-off election to become rector of his Brazilian university. The man responsible for massive research fraud and 18 retractions plays the victim of a “Cancel Culture”. Saad also announces to create an “Office for Research Integrity”, to legalise misconduct and to punish the whistleblowers.
President’s Award for Outstanding Creative Activity
En-Bing Lin “has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles, received over $535,000 in grant funding and given 74 external presentations, including 14 keynote speeches at international mathematic conferences.”
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