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“I can therefore very well imagine that, due to my numerous technical assistants in various laboratories, visitors, and research associates […] considerable confusion must have arisen.” – Prof Dr Mehdi Shakibaei
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
“I can therefore very well imagine that, due to my numerous technical assistants in various laboratories, visitors, and research associates […] considerable confusion must have arisen.” – Prof Dr Mehdi Shakibaei
“This is what you get
When you mess with us” –
University of Ulm to L. Schneider
“Hongji Yan presented four different versions of Figure 9 in the article and during the investigation as the “correct” figure. One version was published in the original article, one version was sent to the journal and published as a correction, and two more versions were shared with the Board”
“research misconduct can occur at any stage of the research process and that there is no requirement for the results or the findings of the research to have been affected. Furthermore, the incorrect images constitute precisely those research results which the authors themselves considered important enough to be presented in scientific articles.” – NPOF
“Mr. Efferth firmly rejects the suspicion raised against him of involvement in paper mill activities and in the publication of automatically generated publications.” – University of Mainz
“Leonid Schneider’s replies will appear in full at the following link: https://forbetterscience.com/” – PubPeer moderator
“Mariana will tell your wife things that she does not want to hear. Believe when I tell you that it is not a good idea to play games with Mariana. […] you will have to pay the consequences for your stupid decisions” – Professor Kazanietz, to a lab member
“Once again I am left wondering what to make of these research teams that cheerfully go on generating impossible results, either they don’t write the methods truthfully or they don’t write the results truthfully and neither one is better than the other.” – Sholto David
“this is all very time consuming and damaging. It starts to look like a witch hunt.”” – Bart De Strooper
“I considered whether I should email Abcam and ask them to change the name of the ab51243 antibody on their website to reduce confusion, but […] I will instead continue to watch the carnage, perhaps it has only just started!” – Sholto David
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