Good luck, Jolanda Spadavecchia!
CNRS research director Jolanda Spadavecchia was sanctioned with two years suspension for “serious and repeated breaches of her duty of scientific integrity”, 19 retractions were requested.
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Yale Fayle
“An attractive new prospect: Install the Chinese paper mill directly at Yale University, where research oversight is presumably less stringent than at the PRC and NIH funds are more easily accessed to piss up the wall.” – Sholto David
The Men Who Stare At Mice
“Do Cohen’s colleagues and superiors know or care that he hosts wizards in his lab? Or perhaps this is simply common place, wizards roam throughout MD Anderson free range, blasting the cancer-mice with their mind powers.” – Sholto David
Andrew George and the Virtues of Research Integrity
“One of the UK research system’s strengths is having established processes that allow for this review so that we maintain an accurate and robust research record. Promoting and improving this system, and encouraging more openness and transparency, is why I became involved in the UK Committee on Research Integrity.” – Andrew J T George
The elusive Margot Zöller
Celebrating the German cancer research maverick Margot Zöller of Heidelberg.
Portrait of Sir Philip Cohen’s Family
Sir Philip and Lady Tricia Cohen, and their heir Dario Alessi, plus other first and second generation offspring. A Scottish soap opera!
Nobelium Bilalski, a Gdansk papermiller
“To date, he has authored over 700 peer-reviewed articles, 150 book chapters, 25 edited books, and 10 editorial-type scientific articles in various areas of Science and Engineering. Dr. Bilal has a h-index of 94 with 34 000 citations (Google Scholar).”
Martin Birchall, Paolo De Coppi, and other clowns of UCL’s degenerative medicine
Several years ago, UCL investigated the Macchiarini affair and found their surgeon Martin Birchall was not only innocent, but also entitled to more money and more patients to experiment upon.
Now, Patricia Murray was awarded for exposing this UCL malfeasance, and Sholto David scrutinised UCL papers for data manipulation.
Jan and Ricky, two blind mouse ophthalmologists
“I am the authorised spokesperson on this matter” – Prof Jan Provis, emerita dean
Cancer at Charité
New season of the popular German TV series, ” Charité”, this time set in the early 21st century! Will Jürgen ever become professor? Will Bernd ever allow science to self-correct? Will Christoph ever catch his mechanical pursuer?
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