Sanofi R&D Head John Reed knows how to science
In 2018, the pharma giant Sanofi appointed with John Reed a new R&D head. Apparently Sanofi does not believe in PubPeer.
Tag: biochemistry
Inspector Voinnet, Wollman in fraud-overdrive, and Farewell to Jessus
Catherine Jessus resigned, Olivier Voinnet solves the crime he was suspected of, and their mutual investigator Francis-Andre Wollman might want to investigate his own papers
Fraud proven in papers of former CNRS president Anne Peyroche
The newspaper l’Express reported that Academie de Sciences commissioned an investigative report about the papers of former CNRS interim president Anne Peyroche, and that CNRS and the French Ministry of Research tried to suppress it. Peyroche herself could not be heard, because she is hospitalised since the affair started. So her co-authors took that as opportunity to blame Peyroche for every fake figure. Meanwhile, duplicated data was found even in Research Minister’s Frederique Vidal’s paper.
DFG and Marburg drop misconduct investigation of Roland Lill papers
German Research Foundation (DFG) terminated the investigation against their Senator and Marburg University professor Roland Lill, after having found no research misconduct. No comments are issued on the integrity of the data in his papers on yeast biochemistry, or on some unusual image manipulations which were already admitted by Lill and his former PhD students
The Perennial Northern Blot of Lopez-Otin
Cancer researcher Carlos López-Otín published the same Northern blot no less than 23 times in 23 publications, between 1994 and 2006. Eventually Lopez-Otin et al even stopped caring what order of samples that original loading control had.
Lill space-time-blot anomaly in Marburg
The biochemistry research lab of professor Roland Lill at the Philipps University Marburg in Germany is a place where space,Continue Reading
Sharma’s bad karma, or is anyone peer reviewing nanotechnology?
Nanotechnology is the way to cure cancer and to save humanity of all its problems in general. The photoshopping team around the physicist Prashant Sharma and Rashmi Madhuri rode this train, till PubPeer sleuth interfered.
DFG Senator Roland Lill explains how to do science properly
My earlier article about strange image irregularities in the publications of the German mitochondria researcher Roland Lill seem to haveContinue Reading
Data integrity conspiracy against German research senator Roland Lill?
Roland Lill is the quiet star of German molecular biology. The 63-year old professor works at the University of Marburg,Continue Reading
