By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Two and a half years after Maria Fousteri was found guilty of scientific misconduct by her former employer, the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), exactly nothing at all happened. ERC and Molecular Cell ignored LUMC letters from June 2016, while Fouster’s British co-authors interfered to save own papers. Of 4 scheduled retractions, none took place.
I previously reported about numerous cases of suspected (or even blatantly obvious) data manipulation at the Weizmann Institute of ScienceContinue Reading
“The Committee concludes that serious breaches of scientific integrity have been committed by Dr. Fousteri while employed at the Leiden University Medical Center.”
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Jingmai O’Connor, a 32-year old professor at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,Continue Reading
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