Science journalism by Leonid Schneider, on research integrity and academic publishing in life sciences and biomedicine
Jan van Deursen had to resign from Mayo Clinic over bullying charges. With his company Unity Biotech’s phase 2 clinical trial failed, stock devalued and staff laid-off, van Deursen sued me in German court about the reproducibility of his senolytics research.
Erick Carreira’s letter to Guido, from 1996. You all saw it probably at some point, and now it’s being discussed again.
BethAnn McLaughlin is a liar, a racist, an embezzler, and a dangerous manipulative bully. But surely she is at least a great neuroscientist?
Jan van Deursen engaged a notorious German law firm against me. The former Mayo Clinic professor denies accusations of bullying and discrimination and obviously seeks to prevent his lab members from talking to the press. Hoecker Lawyers claim van Deursen resigned as pensioner on 24 July 2020, voluntarily.
“There is a clear difference between being a taskmaster and a bully. There just is. Jan was definitely both.” – Robin Ricke, former postdoc in van Deursen’s Mayo Clinic lab
The Israeli Ariel University recruited a doctor from hell to their newly established medical school: Gideon Koren, infamous for Motherisk and deferiprone scandals.
Veteran journalist Michael Balter is being sued for libel. He appeals to fellow reporters for help.
Cancer and ageing researcher Jan van Deursen has silently left the Mayo Clinic, over allegations of bullying.
A former Harvard postdoc from the lab of George Q Daley tells his story.
As COVID19 pandemic rages on, French microbiologist Didier Raoult offers a cure. President Trump is convinced, but is Raoult’s research reliable, here and in general?
