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!
Tag: biochemistry
Faking Raw Data with an Iron Fist
“you can rest your concerns. As you can see, we have not manipulated any images.” – Dr Arati Ramesh
The intellectual leaps of Joe Shapiro
Charcoal as COVID-19 therapy? It may sound silly, but there is solid history of data fudging behind it, wandering western blots included!
The Ballad of Claudio Hetz
“Patients affected with ALS now need to know that we are working for them […] We feel completely motivated and convinced to dedicate our careers to fight ALS.” Claudio Hetz, Photoshop artist.
Science misconduct
Scholarly publishing is broken, and no repair is possible. At least let’s point fingers at the elites and laugh. Can science trust Science?
Society journal Bioscience Reports, ravaged
The society journal Bioscience Reports fell prey to many fraudulent papers. Cheshire counted around 50 with problematic figures, just for the last year.
Interview with JBC research integrity manager Kaoru Sakabe
This is my interview with Kaoru Sakabe, research integrity manager at the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Will the tough stance on science fraud be abandoned, now that the publisher partnered with Elsevier?
CEA declares Anne Peyroche’s data fakery scientifically correct
Former CNRS president Anne Peyroche has been symbolically sanctioned for research misconduct. Despite previous fraud findings, conclusions are not affected, and so is her employment by the Atomic Energy Commission. I present two more falsified figures.
Elsevier’s research integrity
A Chinese paper gets rejected at Elsevier after reviewer spotted fraud. Same paper re-appears unchanged in another Elsevier journal, the editors refuse any action.
David Sabatini TORmented by steaming turds
David Sabatini is an absolute star scientist, and now he is being harassed. On PubPeer and Twitter. It is all very unfair.
