Gianfranco Alpini, in and out of Indiana?
Rumour goes that liver researchers Gianfranco Alpini and his lady friend Heather Francis left Indiana University. While they remain silent, their PubPeer record speaks volumes.
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Rumour goes that liver researchers Gianfranco Alpini and his lady friend Heather Francis left Indiana University. While they remain silent, their PubPeer record speaks volumes.
“…the best evidence for the existence of VSELs is the dismal failure of all the other much-vaunted stem-cell therapies to deliver on their promises. Since it is axiomatic that some stem-cell therapy must work, the successful cell-types must be the ones that haven’t been tried yet, which leaves VSELs.”- Smut Clyde
“The University of Messina was, in short, a good business that appealed to many, including organized crime on both sides of the Strait of Messina.” – Aneurus Inconstans
“There is another possibility, though… that C.-C. Sun is the papermill, supplying colleagues around Wuhan with variants of the same paper, with the condition that those donated manuscripts carry self-citation payloads.” – Smut Clyde
Morty reviews a review, on an important topic and written by Belgian scholars. Turns out, it is mostly referencing fraudulent and papermilled trash from China.
“So here is a novelty in the annals of fictional research: a nomadic digital caliper. It visited a series of laboratories, accompanied by a backing troupe of mouse-mined xenograft tumours for it to measure” – Smut Clyde
“He has embarked on a path of
unacceptable slander, not only against me, but also against my colleagues
(Prof. Oleg Smutok, Prof. Arnold Kiv, Prof. Vladimir Solovyov). We have all the necessary evidence to bring Leonid Schneider to justice for slander and moral turpitude.” – Taras Kavetskyy.
Ashani Weeraratna and Valerie Weaver, two women in STEM, harassed by trolls.
“Professor Amenta is truly a renaissance man and a knowledge powerhouse according to his colleagues and students. Amenta’s sole focus in life is the creation and dissemination of knowledge”
“For once I am not accusing the journal editors and peer-reviewers of incompetence and dereliction, nor calling for the literature reviewers who cite these fictions to be cashiered in the scholastic equivalent of a court-martial.”- Smut Clyde









